Growth & Marketing Intern / New-Grad

First Roles; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

First Roles is seeking a Growth & Marketing Intern to help build the growth engine for an AI talent platform. You will own programs across outbound, paid acquisition, content, SEO, partnerships, and events, turning recruiting insights into measurable demand.

You will treat channels as scientific processes: hypothesize, test, measure, and iterate, while ensuring deliverability for outbound email and managing paid campaigns across major platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience across multiple growth/marketing domains with the ability to own and run programs.
• Proven ability to own outcomes and drive measurable impact rather than only executing activities.
• Treat every channel as a scientific process: hypotheses, tests, metrics, iteration.
• Strong content creation and brand alignment across blogs, email, social, newsletters, testimonials, case studies, and product stories.
• Experience running and optimizing outbound programs (cold email) and managing deliverability.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership and cross-functional collaboration.
• SEO expertise including topic research, on-page optimization, and internal linking.
• Familiarity with paid acquisition channels (Meta, LinkedIn, Google) and ability to plan, launch, and optimize campaigns.
• Experience organizing events and managing marketing partnerships.
• Industry experience in recruitment, HR tech, or AI talent platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own growth programs across outbound, paid acquisition, content/brand, SEO, partnerships and events.
• Deliver measurable outcomes for each channel through a repeatable process.
• Plan and optimize outbound and manage deliverability (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
• Plan, launch, and optimize paid acquisition across Meta, LinkedIn, and Google.
• Create high-velocity content with strong brand alignment.
• Shape and execute SEO strategy with topic research and internal linking.
• Build partnerships and run events that drive turnout.

Skills

Outbound marketing

Paid acquisition

Content/brand

SEO

Partnerships & events

Tools

A/B testing

SPF/DKIM/DMARC

SEO tools

Job description

Growth & Marketing Intern / New-Grad

The build: Our client is building the growth engine for an AI talent platform — already showing impressive ARR growth and scale. You'll own growth across cold email, paid acquisition, content, SEO, and events, and turn recruiting insights into demand. This isn't "execute tasks." It's design repeatable, scientific processes that move real numbers.

What you’ll do

Own growth programs across outbound, paid acquisition, content/brand, SEO, partnerships, and events — delivering measurable outcomes.

• Treat every channel as a scientific process: hypothesis → A/B test → measure → iterate.
• Plan and optimize outbound (cold email) and manage deliverability — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, domain warming, sender reputation.
• Plan, launch, and optimize paid acquisition across Meta, LinkedIn, and Google.
• Create high-velocity content (blogs, email, LinkedIn, social, testimonials, case studies, product stories) with strong brand alignment.
• Shape and execute SEO strategy — topic research, on-page optimization, internal linking.
• Build partnerships and run online/offline events that drive real turnout.

Requirements What our client is looking for:

• Experience across multiple growth/marketing domains (outbound, paid acquisition, content/brand, SEO, partnerships and events) with the ability to own and run programs.
• Proven ability to own outcomes and drive measurable impact rather than only executing activities.
• Treat every channel as a scientific process: hypotheses, tests, metrics, iteration.
• Strong content creation and brand alignment across blogs, email, social, newsletters, testimonials, case studies, and product stories.
• Experience running and optimizing outbound programs (cold email) and managing deliverability (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, domain warming, sender reputation).
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership and cross-functional collaboration.
• SEO expertise including topic research, on-page optimization, and internal linking.
• Familiarity with paid acquisition channels (Meta, LinkedIn, Google) and ability to plan, launch, and optimize campaigns.
• Experience organizing events and managing marketing partnerships.
• Industry experience in recruitment, HR tech, or AI talent platforms.