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Social Media Intern

Hudson Creative
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Hudson Creative is seeking a Social Media Intern to join our team as part of a 4-month training program designed to teach, mentor, and prepare outstanding interns for a full-time role and long-term career path in digital marketing. This internship is intended for recent college graduates (or soon-to-be graduates) with less than 1 year of relevant experience who are excited for hands-on training and development within a fast-paced agency environment.

This role is ideal for highly organized, detail-oriented, and social media-savvy candidates who are passionate about digital marketing, content creation, online communities, and social media trends - especially within the restaurant, hospitality, and lifestyle industries.

Hudson Creative internships go beyond the traditional internship. They offer real client work, meaningful responsibility, and direct training for a full-time role, supporting social media for the most exciting hospitality brands in New York City.

Quick Facts:

  • Internship Period: 4 months (flexible start and end dates)
  • Location: NYC
  • Work Policy: Hybrid with 3 days per week onsite at our Midtown office (Grand Central)
  • Hours: Full-Time (9:00am – 5:30pm EST)
  • Compensation: $2,200/month stipend
  • Mentorship: Daily progress check-ins with your manager to ensure growth and successful completion of the internship
  • Reports to: Digital Marketing Manager

What You'll Do & Learn: You'll join our social media team and support restaurant, hospitality and lifestyle clients, working alongside our creative, account management and performance marketing teams. You'll support content planning and publishing to video, design and community engagement and more.

Content Planning & Ideation

  • Contribute post, reel and campaign ideas in team brainstorms
  • Assist with monthly content plans built around client priorities like new menus, openings and events
  • Research trends, competitors and other hospitality accounts for content inspiration
  • Help prepare creative briefs for upcoming shoots

Content Calendars & Publishing

  • Help maintain monthly content calendars
  • Draft captions in each client's brand voice for team review
  • Schedule and publish posts, stories and reels, checking each one before it goes live

Video & Design

  • Edit short-form video for Reels and TikTok from footage captured by our creative team
  • Create social graphics and help maintain branded templates in Figma, Illustrator or Photoshop
  • Help organize content libraries of approved photos, footage and assets
  • Support ad hoc design projects across email marketing, digital advertising, and other creative initiatives as needed.

Community Engagement

  • Monitor comments, DMs and mentions, and respond to routine messages using client guidelines
  • Flag complaints and sensitive issues to the account team, and assist with review responses
  • Support engagement ideas like interactive stories, polls, giveaways and reposting guest content

Reporting & Influencer Support

  • Help pull monthly performance data and prepare client reports
  • Share observations on which posts performed best
  • Assist with influencer research, outreach and visit coordination

How You'll Grow:

  • Month 1: Learn our tools, workflows and client brands, and shadow the team.
  • Month 2: Draft captions, edits, graphics and community responses for review, and contribute ideas in brainstorms.
  • Months 3–4: Take on more day-to-day publishing and engagement support for [1–2] client accounts, with guidance from your manager.

By the end of the internship, you'll have hands-on experience supporting real client accounts and a portfolio of published work.

Who You Are:

  • Recent graduate (or soon-to-be graduate) with a degree in marketing, communications, advertising, public relations or a related field
  • Experience editing short-form video for Reels and TikTok, using tools like CapCut, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro
  • Experience designing social graphics in Figma, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with a strong eye for layout, typography and photography
  • Strong familiarity with Instagram, TikTok and internet culture
  • Has an eye for emerging social media trends, specifically within the restaurant space
  • Full of content ideas, with strong writing skills and an instinct for what makes people comment, share and show up
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented and comfortable managing multiple tasks and deadlines
  • Proactive, resourceful and eager to learn in a collaborative, fast-paced agency
  • Interested in restaurants, hospitality, food culture and lifestyle brands
  • Familiarity with scheduling tools, Meta Business Suite or Canva is a plus
  • You have prior internship experience or social media work (personal, academic or freelance)
  • Someone who enjoys being active on social media, able and willing to repost and responding to people, replying to comments, etc

What You'll Gain:

  • Hands-on experience running social media for established restaurant, hospitality and lifestyle brands
  • Training in social media management, short-form video, community engagement, content planning and analytics
  • Mentorship from experienced digital marketers, social media strategists and account managers
  • An understanding of how social media connects to brand awareness, paid media and business goals
  • Exposure to client communication, campaign strategy and agency workflows
  • A portfolio of published client work to build a long-term career on

Perks:

  • Company-issued Apple laptop for your day-to-day productivity
  • Flexible hybrid work policy with convenient office location near Grand Central Station
  • Team events including happy hours and quarterly wellness activities
  • Cold brew, coffee, tea, and kombucha on tap, as well as office snacks for the midday pick-me-up
  • Exposure to a wide network of hospitality and industry partners
  • Growth-oriented culture with room to take on responsibility quickly

Interview Process: Jumpstart your career at www.hudsoncreative.com/careers. Please include both a resume and cover letter for consideration.

  • Round 1: Video interview with our hiring manager to discuss your experience and career interests.
  • Round 2: Take-home exercise to demonstrate your social media knowledge, copywriting, and content planning skills.
  • Round 3: Video interview with a member of our team to review your exercise and discuss your approach.
  • Round 4: On-site interview with our account director.

About Us: Hudson Creative is a data-driven digital marketing agency that specializes in the design, strategy, and execution of campaigns to help brands grow online. Our clients include widely recognized industry leaders and range from multi-location restaurant groups and F&B brands to law firms, tourism boards, and beyond. Our experienced team has a strong passion for driving meaningful results that make game-changing business impacts for clients.