Social Media Intern

Web Design Awards; United States; Remote; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Web Design Awards is seeking a remote Social Media Assistant to turn winners and nominees into engaging posts across platforms. You’ll craft captions, create short clips, and help produce social features that accompany Premium entries.

You should be a student, recent grad, or early-career creator with real social media experience and a knack for tone across channels. The role is remote on a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Student, recent graduate, or early-career with real social experience.
• Clear, careful writing and ability to tailor tone per platform.
• Comfort with Canva, Figma or similar, plus basic video editing.
• Reliable to hit deadlines while working remotely.

Responsibilities

• Draft posts, captions and carousels for winners, nominees and jury picks.
• Turn winning sites into short screen recordings, clips, and graphics for each platform.
• Assist in preparing social features that accompany Premium entries.
• Maintain the posting calendar, respond to comments, and report click metrics.

Skills

Social media experience

Clear writing

Deadline oriented

Tools

Canva

Figma

Basic video editing

Job description

A first seat on the channels of a site about design. You turn winners, nominees and editorial into posts that do the work justice - and learn how a publication's social is actually run, day to day.

What you'd do

• Draft the posts, captions and carousels behind winners, nominees and jury picks.
• Turn winning sites into short screen recordings, clips and graphics for each platform.
• Help prepare the social features that go out with Premium entries.
• Keep the calendar on schedule, answer comments, and report what drove clicks back to the site.

What we're after

• A student, recent graduate or early-career creative after real social experience.
• Clear, careful writing, and a feel for how tone shifts between platforms.
• Comfortable in Canva, Figma or similar, and in basic video editing.
• Reliable enough to hit deadlines working remotely, without being chased.

Nice to have: A portfolio of social work, Buffer, Later or similar schedulers, Design communities on Instagram or LinkedIn.

Web Design Awards has been judging the web's best work since 2014 - the curated index, the judging tools, the hiring board and the agency marketplace behind it. This role is remote, on a small distributed team.