Social Media Manager Summer Intern

Social Swells Marketing; Red Bank (NJ); Hybrid; USD 58,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Social Swells Marketing, a boutique social media agency in Red Bank, NJ, seeks a Growth Social Media Manager intern. You will learn to identify premium service-based businesses, bring clients on board, and manage their accounts with strategy, content direction, and production involvement.

The role is part-time (up to 20 hrs/week) with an intensive unpaid training week, followed by $18/hr for account management and a $400 flat commission per client. First client by week four is the goal.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in social media marketing or digital marketing.

Responsibilities

• Identify potential clients and build real relationships for Social Swells Marketing.
• Develop client strategy and drive content direction for campaigns.
• Attend productions and deliver work reflecting the company's standards.

Skills

Self-motivated

Education

Social media marketing/digital marketing program student

Job description

About

We’re a boutique social media agency based in Red Bank, NJ. We work exclusively with premium service-based businesses: medspas, restaurants, hotels, wellness brands – that care about what their brand actually looks like online. Strategy first, always. We don’t post and hope for the best.

This internship is built around one role: Growth Social Media Manager.

You’ll learn how to identify the right businesses for Social Swells, build real relationships, and bring them on as clients. Once you do, you’ll manage those clients directly: building their strategy, driving content direction, attending productions, and delivering work that reflects the standard we hold ourselves to.

Here’s how the compensation works, and we’ll be straight with you about it:

Week one is an intensive, unpaid training week. You’ll learn our sales process, our systems, and exactly how we operate. From there, you’re ready to manage your very own clients. Every client you sign earns you a $400 flat commission, paid immediately. The moment that first client is signed, your $18/hr rate starts for managing their account. The goal is your first client by end of week four.

This is not a passive internship. There’s no busy work, no coffee runs, no sitting in the corner on your laptop. You’ll be doing real, client-facing work from the start.

What the summer looks like:

• Kickoff team dinner.
• Onboarding week with the full team.
• A structured training curriculum covering sales, strategy, content, and client management.
• Monthly team events.
• Weekly 1:1 and group training sessions.
• An end-of-program presentation.
• And for the right people, a conversation about full-time. (and lots of discussions about where to order for lunch)

Dates: June 1 — August 28, 2026

Hours: Part-time, up to 20 hrs/week

Location: Hybrid — Red Bank, NJ. Local candidates only.

We’re looking for juniors, seniors, or recent grads studying social media marketing or digital marketing. You need to be local, self-motivated, and genuinely interested in building something, not just adding a line to your resume.

We’re a Gen Z agency doing premium work. No corporate nonsense. No performative busy work.

Just a small, focused team that’s very serious about the craft and very unbothered by traditional agency culture.

We take on a limited number of interns for the same reason we take on a limited number of clients. It’s the only way to do this properly.