Growth & Operations Intern

Wellspoken; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly pay

Remote-friendly/hybrid work model

Letter of recommendation on completion

Job summary

Wellspoken in Richmond, VA is seeking a Growth & Operations Intern to join a fast-growing startup. The role blends growth ownership with hands-on operations, shipping every week and building repeatable systems.

You'll own growth projects end to end, design experiments, and report learnings while collaborating with founders. Flexible with in-person or remote work, full- or part-time terms, and opportunities to impact the product and customers.

Qualifications

• Take initiative and make decisions without waiting to be told.
• Learn fast and stay comfortable when there's little structure.
• Have opinions, and back them up.
• Are excited to join something early and own the outcome.
• Come from any major; candidates from business, communications, engineering and other programs welcome.

Responsibilities

• Own growth projects end to end; design experiments, execute tests, and report learnings.
• Coordinate online and offline distribution to earn attention.
• Improve messaging and positioning to boost conversions.
• Enhance activation and retention from onboarding to habit formation.
• Define success metrics, build lightweight dashboards, and summarize weekly learnings.

Skills

Initiative

Decision making

Fast learner

Independent

Bold opinions

Job description

Wellspoken is an AI app that helps people communicate more clearly in meetings, interviews, and everyday conversations. Hundreds of thousands of people use it, and we're one of the fastest-growing startups in our space.

Growth

Growth & Operations Intern

Location Richmond, VA or Remote

Workplace In-Person (Richmond) / Remote

Type Full-Time / Part-Time

Pay Competitive

Dates Year-round

Wellspoken is an AI app that helps people communicate more clearly in meetings, interviews, and everyday conversations. Hundreds of thousands of people use it, and we're one of the fastest-growing startups in our space.

Why this role

Wellspoken is one of the fastest-growing companies in our space, competing directly with players ten times our size. We move faster than they do because everyone here owns real outcomes, and your work will show up in the product and the numbers within days.

You'll learn directly from two technical founders, from Cornell and Berkeley, who have shipped products and scaled Wellspoken to profitability. You'll see how a company grows from the inside.

What you'll do

This role blends growth ownership with hands-on operations. You'll own real outcomes, ship every week, and build systems the team keeps using.

Growth, your main focus

You'll run growth projects end to end: find opportunities, design experiments, execute fast, and report learnings clearly. The goal is simple: drive more qualified users into the product and turn what you learn into repeatable playbooks.

You Might Work On Things Like

• Experimentation: generate ideas, prioritize, run tests, and iterate from results.
• Distribution: find where our users already are, online and offline, and earn attention there.
• Messaging and positioning: improve how we explain the product so it converts better.
• Lifecycle: improve activation and retention loops, from onboarding to habit formation to win-backs.
• Measurement: define success metrics, build lightweight dashboards, and write weekly recaps.

Operations and user insight

Always-on alongside the growth work, and often the source of your best growth ideas.

• Run point on customer support and the day-to-day that keeps the team moving.
• Talk to users, review feedback, and turn what you hear into clear takeaways and proposed changes.
• Keep docs, trackers, and processes tight so execution stays high-velocity.

What you'll walk away with

• Owned multiple growth projects with measurable outcomes.
• Built playbooks and systems that compound long after your internship ends.
• Learned how founders prioritize, execute, and measure inside a high-speed startup.
• Sat in on founder strategy calls and seen how a startup actually makes decisions.
• Talked to real users and shaped what we built next.
• The skills and confidence to run your own projects, or start your own company.

Compensation & perks

• Competitive hourly pay, with flexible start dates year-round.
• Full-time (40 hrs/week) if you're doing a fall or spring co-op term, or joining us over the summer.
• Part-time (10 to 20 hrs/week) if you're taking classes at the same time. We'll build the schedule around your course load.
• In person at our Richmond office if you're local, remote while you're away at school. We lean in person whenever that's realistic for you.
• Strong performers continue part-time for as long as it's a good fit.
• Full Wellspoken Premium access and a letter of recommendation on successful completion.

Who we're looking for

• Take initiative and make decisions without waiting to be told.
• Learn fast and stay comfortable when there's little structure.
• Have opinions, and back them up.
• Are excited to join something early and own the outcome.
• Come from any major. We've seen strong candidates out of business, communications, engineering, and plenty of programs in between.