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
• Represent BuzzSpoon through grassroots user acquisition efforts by conducting in-person outreach, pitching the value of the platform to potential users, distributing branded marketing materials, and personally guiding new users through account creation on the spot.
• Follow up with prospects and encourage continued engagement on the platform
• Track outreach efforts, signups, onboarding activity, and regional growth progress

Requirements

• 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.

Preferred

• 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 sales, 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

Benefits

• 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, sales, campus marketing, and community-building