About

HUA Wellness is looking for highly motivated interns in the New York Metropolitan area for Spring 2025 in various positions. We are a new wellness brand startup based in NYC specializing in natural products for stress relief. Interns will have the opportunity to work directly with the founder, see how a company is run, and learn about the beauty and wellness industry. This internship will allow students to gain first-hand experience in executing projects, managing projects and the day- to-day needs of a brand. The internship offers exciting hands-on experience and the opportunity to gain new skills.

Location

New York City (hybrid)

Duration and Hours

This internship starts in January 2025 and lasts until the end of the Spring semester (May 2025), with the possibility of being extended. This is a hybrid internship with flexible hours around 15 hours a week (or the hours required to get college credit approved by your school)..

NOTE: This is an unpaid internship for college credit only.

Available Internship Positions:

• Creative & Design Intern
• Social Media & Community Intern

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply, please email info@huawellness.com with the subject line of the internship you’re applying to, either “Spring 2025 Design Internship” or “Spring 2025 Social Media Internship”, along with your resume and a link to your previous work (your portfolio link showcasing your design work if applying to the design internship or your content examples if applying to the social media internship). School projects are acceptable. Applicants who apply on LinkedIn without emailing will NOT be considered.

Creative & Design Internship Details

We are looking for an intern to focus on enhancing our asset library by creating on-brand visual assets such as brand/product photography, static image and graphics-based social media posts. While the intern will have exposure to video content creation on social media, this role focuses more on static assets and graphic design and is a secondary support role for editing videos filmed by the founder or other interns whose primary role is video content creation. This intern will sit in team meetings where they have the opportunity to share their progress and ideas with the broader group. There is room for flexibility in responsibilities depending on the intern’s interests and what they’d like to learn throughout the internship period. Applicants should be independent and strong communicators that can thrive in a startup environment. An interest and passion in health and wellness is strongly preferred.

Creative & Design Internship Responsibilities

• Create digital assets, including creative design and copy, aligned with our brand guidelines for website, social media, email, and marketing campaigns
• Assist in producing brand and product photography 
• Edit videos for social media
• Study marketing trends and brainstorm ideas for campaigns/projects
• Collaborate with other interns on shared deliverables
• Meet with the founder once a week to present ideas and report progress on deliverables

Creative & Design Internship Qualifications

• At least 18 years of age
• Location within New York Metropolitan Area preferred
• Student pursuing a Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Strong proficiency with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Previous design experience preferred
• Ability to work on projects from concept to end and execute all steps in between
• Strong communication and writing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with a team
• Detail-oriented, proactive, organized, and timely with deliverables
• Ability to meet with the founder in-person once a week (virtual meeting okay)
• Highly creative and resourceful with an entrepreneurial spirit and desire to be part of an early-stage company

When applying, please provide a link to your creative portfolio showcasing your previous design work (school projects are acceptable).

Social Media & Community Internship Details

We are looking for an intern to help grow our organic social channels by creating engaging on-brand content, testing out different content strategies, capturing event footage, and doing community outreach to form strategic partnerships. Applicants should be independent and strong communicators that can thrive in a startup environment. An interest and passion in health and wellness is strongly preferred.

Social Media & Community Internship Responsibilities

• Study trends on social media and brainstorm content ideas
• Develop, plan and maintain a content calendar
• Meet with the founder once a week to present content ideas to produce for the upcoming weeks and review analytics from previous content to extract learnings
• Research, film, edit, write SEO-optimized captions and send content for approval
• Create static image and graphics-based posts using our brand assets and templates
• Perform outreach to build strategic partnerships
• Be present at events and pop-ups that we participate in to capture content and engage with customers
• Improve, iterate, and adjust social strategy with goals of increasing brand following, engagement, awareness, and equity.

Social Media & Community Internship Qualifications

• At least 18 years of age
• Student pursuing a Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Strong communication and writing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Detail-oriented, proactive, organized, and timely with deliverables
• Comfortable appearing in videos, interviewing others for content, and engaging in on-the-street/guerrilla marketing tactics
• Ability to meet with the founder in-person once a week (in Manhattan or Brooklyn)
• Previous social media creation experience preferred
• Highly creative and resourceful with an entrepreneurial spirit and desire to be part of an early-stage company

When applying, please provide a link to your content examples, preferably videos, showcasing your previous content creation work (school projects are acceptable).