🐋 How to discover niche tech roles
The perfect tech role for you might be one you've never heard of! Plus: new roles at Grammarly, Shipt, Epic Games, and more!
What’s up, Tech Pod!
For all the students out there, we’re almost done with the semester! 😅
Just keep grinding and winter break will be here before you know it.
Alright, quick question:
Have you ever asked someone what they do and they respond with something you’ve never even heard of?
It makes you realize how many career paths that are out there—that you have no awareness of.
It’s easy to dream of being a firefighter or teacher, but for those of us who want to get into tech, it takes time and research to discover the niche positions we could aspire to.
So this week, we’ll be breaking down some career paths you might want to be aware of!
You can become a UX Researcher
UX Research is all about analyzing how customers use products.
They plan studies, conduct research, analyze results and deliver recommendations.
Great for non-technical people with backgrounds in psychology, design, or statistics!
You could:
Discover user pain points in apps, websites, etc and recommend solutions
Validate new product ideas before they go into production through user testing
Improve a function within an app for specific user needs and concerns
Generate app ideas that would appeal to niche audiences
Big picture: They help tech teams create products that best solve people’s needs. They bring the human element into the picture.
How to go X-Games mode on your Android 🤳
Did you know—there’s a bunch of efficiency-enhancing shortcuts you don’t know about? 👀
Shortcuts that are mostly just known by the Googlers that write the software!
You can learn how to:
Inject your notifications with extra intelligence
Supercharge your phone’s battery life
Automate away some of life’s most tedious annoyances
+ more
JR Raphael is a journalist that has been covering Google / Android for 10+ years.
And he’s just created his online course called Android Shortcut Supercourse to share his niche findings from the past decade of research. ⭐️
And guess what? He’s offering the e-course for free.
Let’s go!
You could be a Copywriter in tech!
Writers in the tech industry typically bridge the gap between the complexities of the tech product and the everyday customer. They work to create writing pieces that not only explain the products in fun ways but also compel users to want them.
Copywriters in tech can be responsible for a wide variety of things:
Translating confusing tech jargon into everyday language
Brainstorming a brand name and tagline (in smaller/startup companies)
Creating customer manuals, user guides, and product descriptions
Crafting the written material on websites
Building the brand’s unique tone, language, how they sound in written form
Great for our writers in the Pod!
No technical expertise is necessary—just curiosity and interest in tech are enough!
The best way to discover niche positions and careers?
Chat with people in the companies (better yet departments within the company) that you want to work at and ask them about the people on their team and what they’re responsible for.
Surf around Linkedin. Browse through profiles and look at the roles they’ve described on their page. When you find a position that sparks your interest, find more profiles with that specific role, and do some research on Google about it.
Keep reading our newsletter! We’ll be bringing in some new career paths we think you’d be interested in!
Tech Opportunities to Apply to Now 🚨
Internship 👨💻
Digital Content eCommerce, Oase
Brand and Product Marketing, Shipt
Social Marketing Intern, imre (Spring)
New Grad 👩🎓
Product Communications, Epic Games
Content Marketing Associate, Clearwater Analytics (fintech)
Performance Marketing Associate: Create Operations, Coinbase
Product Marketing Manager, Grammarly
Product Marketing Manager, Deputy
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Written by Jacqueline Mastrelli