Marketing Intern, Empowerly
Student Ambassador, Part Time
$20 an hour
College admissions counseling
Be an early applicant
College admissions counseling
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$20 an hour
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower students to be the most successful version of themselves.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for high-performing current high school students, college students, or recent college graduates who have been part of the Empowerly community to join us as Marketing Interns (Student Ambassadors)
- Current high school students, college students, or recent graduates
- Past or current Empowerly students strongly preferred
- Strong communicator with a natural ability to influence peers
- Active in school, campus, or online communities
- Entrepreneurial, proactive, and reliable
Desirable
- Hold leadership roles (clubs, organizations, etc.)
- Enjoy creating content or storytelling
- Are interested in business, marketing, or startups
What the job involves
- Drive Referrals: Share Empowerly with peers, families, and your network
- Content Creation: Create authentic content (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) about your experience
- Community Engagement: Represent Empowerly in school or alumni communities, group chats, and events
- Feedback Loop: Share insights on what students and families care about
- Campaign Support: Assist with marketing initiatives, webinars, and outreach campaigns
- This is a unique opportunity to:
- Build real-world marketing and business experience
- Work directly with a fast-growing startup
- Help other students and families discover opportunities that shaped your own journey
- You’ll play a key role in driving awareness, referrals, and community engagement
- Why This Role Is Unique:
- Work directly with a rapidly growing edtech startup
- Gain hands-on experience in marketing, growth, and community building
- Flexible hours that fit your schedule
- Opportunity to earn more through performance-based incentives (referrals)
- Build your resume for college, internships, and early career roles
Application process
- Submit a short application sharing:
- Your Empowerly experience
- Why you’d be a strong ambassador
- Any examples of content, leadership, or community involvement
Our take
In the competitive college admissions landscape, students face pressure to navigate the process effectively. Empowerly steps in to address this challenge, recognizing the inadequacy of traditional high school counseling services in providing specialized guidance amid skyrocketing application rates.
Empowerly's approach combines personalized counseling, AI-powered technology, and a suite of services to empower students in their pursuit of higher education. By leveraging proprietary algorithms such as the Empowerly Score, the company offers a holistic assessment of students' strengths and areas for improvement, guiding them towards enhancing their college application strategically.
Bolstered by strong funding, Empowerly continues to pursue expansion and innovation. For example, it has launched a mobile app and has been working to enhance its AI-powered products, in order to cater to the evolving needs of students and families.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2024
$15m
EARLY VC
Feb 2022
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $26.6m
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Changxiao X.
(Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering at Princeton. They previously worked on building tradting systems on Wall Street, Machine Learning at Facebook, and researched NLP techniques for disinformation detection.
Hanmei Wu
(Co-Founder)Graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Business Administration. Previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Teach for America prior to founding Empowerly.
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