Sanoma Media Finland is the largest commercial media company in Finland. We provide reliable and interesting journalism, memorable entertainment and influential marketing solutions.
We have large, well-known media brands and a set of the largest digital services in the country. Sanoma's media reaches 97% of Finns every week.
"When the world changes, you can stand by or be part of the change."
Sanoma Media Trainee is an 8-month training program for students at the end of their studies or recent graduates interested in developing Finland’s largest digital media products and brands.
The application period for the next Sanoma Media Trainee program is 17.12.2024-6.1.2025. The estimated starting time of the next program is April 2025. This time we are looking for software developers, AI developers, designers, marketeers, business developers, editorial AI specialists and data scientists.
Developer
As a Developer Trainee you will develop the digital services of our media brands to a new level as part of a multi-talented team.
We are looking for Software Developers to develop new functionalities and capabilities to our journalistic products as well as AI Developers for building our own AI capabilties and utilizing forms of generative AI to optimize different journalistic processes.
Designer
As a Designer Trainee you will be part of designing our digital services in a user-centric manner, responsibly with our brand in mind and together with the development team and stakeholders.
We are looking for Designers to build user-friendly functionalities to enhance our news product experience and ad experience in various Sanoma products, to build our design-related capabilities as well as to promote design principles.
Marketeer
As a Marketeer Trainee you will develop and share your knowledge on the development of different marketing and sales processes and technologies.
We are looking for trainees to join our teams working with consumer customers and commercial development. Our teams work with for instance brand marketing, developing multichannel customer journeys, campaigns using marketing technologies, marketing automation and A/B tests across channels. Customer data is in the core of our daily work.
Business Developer
As a Business Developer Trainee you will be part of a team that works with for instance customer and market analysis, portolio and product strategy development and pricing.
We are looking for trainees who have experience and enthusiasm for data collection, business calculations and analysis to support decision-making. We work in collaboration across teams to boost several development endeavours.
Data Scientist
As a Data Scientist Trainee you will work with statistical and ML/AI methods to explore and optimize business processes, develop algorithms and solve problems. Examples include user profiling, improving recommendation systems, forecasting and data analysis.
We are looking for trainees to work with for example the development of personalisation of digital news products and building the next generation of digital advertising products to reach audiences across our media product portfolio.
Editorial AI Specialist
As an Editorial AI Specialist Trainee you will work with both editorial teams and AI development. You will help bringing AI competence to enhance journalistic work as well as building shared AI capabilities across Sanoma.
We are looking for a talent who has some experience and willing to develop their skills in understanding of both editorial and journalistic processes, content production and AI.
Meaningful work that gets noticed
At Sanoma, work is done with the customer first, based on data, smartly, responsibly and together. We all have space to develop, act and be ourselves. Everyday practices are flexible and constantly developed. We aim high and work hard, but it's also fun at work.
Technological growth and the rapid development of digital products at Sanoma in areas such as news, entertainment, video, audio and marketing solutions have led to an increasing need for fresh experts in an ever-changing operating environment. Today, Sanoma Media Finland employs more than 150 technology and data experts as well as numerous product experts and designers.
We have a long history of successful summer job recruits, which have brought many committed digital industry experts into our ranks. That's why we decided to expand our talent acquisition by launching the Sanoma Media Trainee program in 2024. Now we are looking for new trainees for the year 2025.
Key figures
#1
in news, magazines, childrens content, online, mobile, and commercial radio, tv and online video network
2,100
Average number of employees
598m€
Net sales
40m€
Operational EBIT excl. PPA
Wide range of programming languages and technologies
Sanoma utilizes a wide range of programming languages and technologies in its development work, as well as experimenting with new innovations. We use the following programming tech, among others:
TypeScript | Python | Java | Scala | Kotlin | Swift | Next.js | Node.js | Rust | React
Q&A:
What is the application process like for this program?
The application process has two interviews, this is the rough schedule:
- 17th of December 2024 - 6th of January 2025: Application period
- January - beginning of March 2025: Interview process
- Interview 1: Motivation, company fit, working styles
- Interview 2: Technical / substance interview with the hiring team
- Trainee selection
- Beginning of April 2025: Program start
Suitable candidates are called to interview 1 via our recruitment system TalentAdore. Both interview rounds are eliminative.
What are the language preferences?
Finnish language is not a requirement for all the trainee roles. We will organize the program in English if at least one participant doesn’t speak Finnish. Proficient level of English is mandatory since we have many English speaking experts developing our digital products.
Finnish language is not required for developer & data scientist roles in the 2025 trainee program. The language requirement will be listed also in the actual job application form of each role.
What will I be working with?
Each trainee will be assigned a development team in either news & feature media, B2B unit or journalistic development & consumer business.
News & feature media: Daily content delivery of news & feature content for our news brands such as Helsingin Sanomat, Ilta-Sanomat.
B2B unit: Developing & managing our ad business and experience in all of Sanoma's products as well as optimizing related processes.
Journalistic development & consumer business: Development of our digital news products, brands and consumer management.
Additionally each trainee goes through a personal development plan and a shared training program.
Work tasks and responsibilities depend on the trainee role.
When can I apply to this program?
The application period for the 2025 program is from 17th of December 2024 to 6th of January 2025. The estimated starting time of the program is April 2025.
Come and make media for the next generations
Our goal is to create diverse Finnish media for future generations and to be a diverse, equal and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from different kinds of people and educational backgrounds. The most important thing is the desire to learn new things.
We use Github extensively for version control and AWS CDK and CloudFormation for infrastructure management. We operate extensively in cloud environments with DevOps principles in both AWS and Azure environments. Our deployments are typically fully automated and we use Github Actions and AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD, and host our apps in AWS cloud using Docker or serverless functions. We use several different testing tools and test automation, thus we choose the tool on a case-by-case basis. In terms of user experience and design, we work with Figma, Supernova and Adobe products. In addition to analytics, we use Cambri -testing tool and various a/b testing methods for measuring experience and data-driven decision-making.
What is Sanoma Media Trainee?
Sanoma Media Trainee is an 8-month training program with a fixed monthly salary. During the program, you will do meaningful and diverse work. Your colleagues include the best people in the industry: creative talents, top experts, praised supervisors and exceptionally nice people.
We expect our trainees to have ambition but we also provide support and experience for the beginning of one's career. We are looking for motivated digital industry workers to develop into experts in the media field at Sanoma with real work projects and products that are important to us. More detailed prerequisites for success can be found from the application form of each role.
The estimated trainee period for 2025 program is from April to November.
What we offer in this program?
We provide our trainees with a customized common study program and a personal development plan. The trainees form their own community and have additional support network from their own teams, program leader and committed management. Each trainee has their own personal mentor and gets weekly training for their role. In these 8 months trainees get to explore our different businesses and teams as well as their own informal get-togethers and events with other employees.
Other benefits include:
- Our own products and relevance; Seeing your own handprint in day-to-day work
- Office in the biggest media house in Finland, Sanomatalo, in the heart of Helsinki
- Working to support journalism, freedom of speech and democracy
- Largest media brands such as Ilta-Sanomat, Helsingin Sanomat and Nelonen
- Modern working tools
- Personnel benefits: lunch, culture and sports benefit, Sanomain Kerho -hobby club, Sanomatalo gym and Sanoma’s product benefits
- Best Christmas party in Finland!
Sanoma Media Trainee -program provides a solid foundation for a career in digital product development. It is a full-day, fixed-term employment of 8 months. There is a possibility for continuing to working with Sanoma after the program. We are also open to support a thesis during the trainee period. The trainee program has an agreed fixed duration of 8 months (April-November) and a salary of EUR 2 800 per month.
We expect applicants to be ready to commit to our organization as an employee as well as be interested in the media industry and product development. Applicants must be able to take the initiative but have good teamwork skills, as all work happens within a team.
Finnish language is considered an advantage but is not a requirement for all the trainee positions. At Sanoma, we can also support the employee's Finnish language development, and we already offer this opportunity to several of our English-speaking employees. The work will be carried out in hybrid-mode, but the applicant must also commit to working at Sanomatalo in Helsinki on a weekly basis and attending some of the ceremonies on-site. More detailed requirements for each role as well as the working language will be found on the role application forms.
