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

Culinary Creator & Campus Marketing Manager Internship (Performance-Based Startup Role) 🧑‍🍳 Are you a culinary student with a passion for social media, grassroots community outreach, and crafting homemade dishes? 💛 BuzzSpoon is looking for outgoing, entrepreneurial culinary students to help attract new users and drive real engagement and activity on the platform. About BuzzSpoon (BuzzSpoon.com) 🥄 BuzzSpoon is The Food-Sharing Social Platform 🍪 BuzzSpoon combines social media + local food discovery + foodie culture into one platform where everyone can: 📸 Post & Share their homemade dishes and serve plates to friends nearby 🎫 Earn BuzzBucks — Points earned by serving plates of their own dishes — and spent to grab plates from others near you via pickup or delivery 🔁 DishSwap — Swipe right, propose a trade, meet up to swap their dishes 👥 Explore & Connect — explore content from everyone’s kitchen and build a following 💚 Grow their home-based/micro food business — if you have a Cottage Food License, Food Handling Certificate, or Food Service Permit, we'll approve you to sell plates of your dishes directly on BuzzSpoon as an Authorized Food Seller More about selling 👉 BuzzSpoon.com/pro Position Overview BuzzSpoon is an early-stage startup looking for motivated, outgoing, and entrepreneurial Culinary Creator & Campus Marketing Manager Interns to help rapidly grow the platform’s foodie community across different campuses, cities, and regions throughout the U.S. This is a remote, performance-based internship focused on grassroots growth, direct outreach, user acquisition, culinary creator engagement, campus marketing, and regional community expansion. Interns must live in or near the region/campus they are helping grow so they can better connect with local foodie communities, conduct outreach, and help drive authentic platform activity within their area. This role combines being an active culinary creator on BuzzSpoon while also helping grow the platform through campus marketing, regional outreach, and community-building efforts. Interns will actively participate on BuzzSpoon by preparing homemade dishes, posting kitchen content, serving plates, participating in DishSwap, and building activity around their own Table — while also attracting new users, culinary creators, and Authorized Food Sellers onto the platform. You’ll be 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. This includes both everyday users and qualified cottage food bakers, dessert creators, home bakers, culinary creators, and small food businesses interested in becoming Authorized Food Sellers on BuzzSpoon. Campus Marketing Manager & Culinary Creator 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 Ideal Candidate • Passionate about food, cooking, baking, or culinary culture • Culinary students, aspiring chefs, bakers, food creators, and individuals with a culinary background are strongly preferred • 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 • Familiarity with local foodie culture, culinary communities, campus organizations, or food businesses is a plus Compensation & Opportunity • 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