Growth Marketing Intern

Role Summary

HustleFuel is an early-stage performance supplement and lifestyle brand built around energy, focus, hydration, protein, fitness, and the mindset behind pursuing ambitious goals.

We are seeking a motivated and creative Growth Marketing Intern to help HustleFuel increase brand awareness, build partnerships, create engaging content, and generate measurable customer growth.

This is a hands-on startup role that combines content marketing, creator and affiliate outreach, partnership development, e-commerce support, and performance tracking. The intern will work closely with HustleFuel's founder and leadership team and will have the opportunity to contribute directly to real marketing campaigns, product launches, and business-growth initiatives.

This position is best suited for someone who is comfortable testing ideas, communicating with new people, working independently, and learning how marketing activities connect to traffic, leads, and sales.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this position means helping HustleFuel consistently create and distribute useful marketing content while building relationships that can produce measurable business results.

A successful intern will:

• Publish and repurpose content consistently
• Build qualified creator, affiliate, gym, retailer, and partnership pipelines
• Conduct professional outreach and maintain organized follow-up records
• Help increase website traffic, engagement, email signups, and discount-code usage
• Identify which content, offers, and partnerships generate the strongest results
• Complete assigned projects on time with limited supervision
• Provide clear weekly reporting on completed work, results, and recommended next steps

Responsibilities

• Research potential creators, affiliates, ambassadors, athletes, student representatives, fitness pages, gyms, retailers, teams, and community partners
• Build and maintain organized outreach lists containing relevant contact information, status updates, and follow-up dates
• Draft, send, and track professional outreach messages through email, social media, and other approved channels
• Assist with onboarding creators, ambassadors, affiliates, and promotional partners
• Support the creation of TikTok videos, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, social posts, carousels, captions, and promotional graphics
• Turn product information, ingredient research, founder ideas, customer experiences, and partnership activity into understandable marketing content
• Write hooks, scripts, captions, calls to action, email copy, outreach messages, and basic website content
• Repurpose founder, customer, ambassador, racing, event, and behind-the-scenes content across multiple platforms
• Assist with product launches, preorder campaigns, bundles, giveaways, affiliate promotions, and email or SMS campaigns
• Help maintain a weekly content calendar and marketing campaign schedule
• Track affiliate links, discount codes, creator activity, website traffic, engagement, leads, and attributed sales
• Review campaign results and identify opportunities to improve content, outreach, conversion, and customer acquisition
• Conduct small growth experiments and document the objective, execution, outcome, and recommended next step
• Coordinate with HustleFuel leadership and other team members to ensure marketing activities support current company priorities
• Maintain organized marketing files, partnership records, content assets, and campaign documentation
• Follow HustleFuel brand standards and use accurate, responsible language when discussing products and supplement ingredients
• Provide a concise weekly report covering completed work, key metrics, active opportunities, challenges, and upcoming priorities

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate professionally with creators, customers, businesses, and potential partners
• Interest in marketing, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, fitness, supplements, consumer brands, or content creation
• Familiarity with platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, or Facebook
• Basic understanding of short-form content, social-media trends, and digital audience engagement
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet agreed-upon deadlines
• Comfortable working independently in a remote startup environment
• Willingness to receive feedback, revise work, and test different approaches
• Ability to use or learn tools such as Canva, CapCut, Google Workspace, spreadsheets, Shopify, and basic analytics platforms
• Ability to connect marketing activity to measurable outcomes rather than focusing only on views or follower counts

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience creating social-media content, editing videos, conducting outreach, or supporting a student organization
• Experience with Canva, CapCut, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar creative tools
• Familiarity with affiliate marketing, creator partnerships, email marketing, Shopify, or e-commerce
• Personal interest in fitness, sports nutrition, athletics, gaming, motorsports, or startup brands
• A portfolio, personal account, class project, freelance project, or student-organization work that demonstrates relevant skills
• Professional marketing experience is not required. Relevant classwork, personal projects, student organizations, volunteer work, creator accounts, and freelance experience may all be considered.

What the Intern Will Gain

• Hands-on experience growing an early-stage consumer brand
• Portfolio-ready work involving real content, campaigns, partnerships, and product launches
• Experience with creator, affiliate, ambassador, and business outreach
• Exposure to e-commerce marketing and customer-acquisition strategy
• Experience interpreting marketing data and connecting activity to revenue
• Direct communication with HustleFuel's founder and leadership team
• Greater understanding of how content, partnerships, offers, and distribution work together to grow a company

How to Apply

Please submit:

• A résumé or LinkedIn profile
• Two to five examples of relevant content, projects, writing, outreach, or marketing work
• A brief explanation of why you are interested in HustleFuel
• One practical growth idea you would consider testing for the brand

Applicants are not expected to complete a large unpaid custom project as part of the initial application.