Culinary Creator & Campus Marketing Manager Internship (Performance-Based Startup Role)

Summary: BuzzSpoon is an early-stage startup looking for motivated culinary students for a Culinary Creator & Campus Marketing Manager Internship. The role involves grassroots growth, direct outreach, and user acquisition to enhance the foodie community on the platform. Responsibilities: - Conduct grassroots outreach to chefs, bakers, home cooks, culinary students, foodies, and culinary creators within your region or campus community - Help grow BuzzSpoon awareness and activity throughout your campus and local foodie community - Make outbound cold calls and direct outreach to potential users and food businesses - Attract new users and culinary creators to join BuzzSpoon - Drive signups, onboarding activity, and platform engagement within your assigned region - Recruit qualified Authorized Food Sellers onto the platform - Get prospective users and sellers to create their BuzzSpoon profile (“Table”), post dishes, build a following, request and serve plates, engage with their local foodie community, and grow activity around their Table - Follow up with prospects and encourage continued engagement on the platform - Track outreach efforts, signups, onboarding activity, and regional growth progress - Contribute ideas and feedback to improve growth, outreach, campus marketing, and user acquisition strategies - Sign up for BuzzSpoon and create your own personal BuzzSpoon profile (aka “Table”) - Prepare your own homemade dishes and post them to your BuzzSpoon Table - Serve plates of your dishes to friends, local foodies, and people nearby - Post your own kitchen content and culinary creations on BuzzSpoon - Participate in DishSwap activities with other users on the platform - Build engagement and activity around your Table - Interact with other culinary creators and members of the BuzzSpoon community - Help generate authentic local platform activity within your region Required Qualifications: - Are you a culinary student with a passion for social media, grassroots community outreach, and crafting homemade dishes? - Outgoing, entrepreneurial culinary students to help attract new users and drive real engagement and activity on the platform - Must live in or near the region/campus they are helping grow - Actively participate on BuzzSpoon by preparing homemade dishes, posting kitchen content, serving plates, participating in DishSwap, and building activity around their own Table - Responsible for actively attracting new users and culinary creators onto the platform while helping drive engagement and growth within your assigned campus and/or region - Conduct grassroots outreach to chefs, bakers, home cooks, culinary students, foodies, and culinary creators within your region or campus community - Help grow BuzzSpoon awareness and activity throughout your campus and local foodie community - Make outbound cold calls and direct outreach to potential users and food businesses - Drive signups, onboarding activity, and platform engagement within your assigned region - Recruit qualified Authorized Food Sellers onto the platform - Get prospective users and sellers to create their BuzzSpoon profile (“Table”), post dishes, build a following, request and serve plates, engage with their local foodie community, and grow activity around their Table - Follow up with prospects and encourage continued engagement on the platform - Track outreach efforts, signups, onboarding activity, and regional growth progress - Contribute ideas and feedback to improve growth, outreach, campus marketing, and user acquisition strategies - Sign up for BuzzSpoon and create your own personal BuzzSpoon profile (aka “Table”) - Prepare your own homemade dishes and post them to your BuzzSpoon Table - Serve plates of your dishes to friends, local foodies, and people nearby - Post your own kitchen content and culinary creations on BuzzSpoon - Participate in DishSwap activities with other users on the platform - Build engagement and activity around your Table - Interact with other culinary creators and members of the BuzzSpoon community - Help generate authentic local platform activity within your region - Passionate about food, cooking, baking, or culinary culture - Comfortable talking with people both online and offline - Interested in marketing, community growth, startups, or social media - Self-motivated and comfortable with grassroots outreach - Active on social media and enjoys creating content - Comfortable creating and posting culinary content online - Excited about helping grow a new foodie-focused platform - Strong communication and interpersonal skills Preferred Qualifications: - Culinary students, aspiring chefs, bakers, food creators, and individuals with a culinary background are strongly preferred - Familiarity with local foodie culture, culinary communities, campus organizations, or food businesses is a plus Required Skills: Culinary skills, Social media content creation, Grassroots outreach, User acquisition, Marketing, Cold calling, Culinary content posting Benefits: 100% performance-based compensation tied to regional user acquisition, culinary creator onboarding, and platform growth initiatives, Remote role focused on growing your local region and/or campus community, Flexible self-managed schedule, Startup growth opportunity, Opportunity to help grow an early-stage social platform from the ground up, Great real-world experience in startups, growth, outreach, campus marketing, and community-building