Social and Environmental Sustainability Intern

Location: PopSockets Office, Boulder, CO

Duration: June 3, 2019 – August 22, 2019

Reporting to: Social Compliance Manager and VP Operations

Our Company

PopSockets LLC, based in Boulder, Colorado, designs, manufactures and sells innovative lifestyle products. Our flagship product, the PopSockets grip—a collapsible grip and stand that provides secure one-handed holding for any mobile device—was invented by philosophy professor David Barnett, with the first grip sold on PopSockets.com in 2014 and the 100 millionth sold in 2018. PopSockets products embody the company's mission to create empowering, personal, and fun products.

PopSockets was named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado in 2018 and also listed as Inc. 5000's second fastest growing company in the US, with a 71,424% percent of sales increase over the last three years.

For more information on what it’s like to work at PopSockets, click here. Read more about our recent rebrand and updated packaging here.

The Role

This 12-week internship will focus on the completion of two main projects. The first is a full life-cycle and environmental impact analysis for PopSockets grips. The second will be the design and implementation of a standardized company-wide training on social compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide a full, analytical view into the environmental risks for PopSockets grips which will form the basis for future projects on environmental sustainability of grips.
• Ensure that all staff are trained on our social compliance program and meet our training requirements for our Fair Labor Association affiliation. Project will include pre- and post-training data collection to measure training effectiveness.
• Assist in delivery and metrics tracking of ongoing new hire training on responsible sourcing
• Provide "second pair of eyes" to CSR-related policies and procedures.
• Actively participate in CSR-related committees at PopSockets HQ (Sustainability Committee, HSE Committee, Purchasing Practices Committee), and other CSR-related tasks as needed.

Requirements

• Product life-cycle analysis experience.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Interest in corporate social responsibility.
• Interest in business and human rights.