Marketing Intern Summer ‘26
Location: San Francisco Bay Area highly preferred, or remote
Type: Paid summer internship
Dates: June 1 - September 1, start and end dates flexible
The Mission
Hoplynk builds resilient, autonomous communications systems for the places and people that absolutely need reliable internet access. Our systems combine rugged, high-powered hardware solutions with best-in-class networking software and AI Agents to keep people, teams, and machines connected across cellular, satellite, radio, and wired networks. We work across the non-profit and commercial spaces, including public safety, energy, critical infrastructure, field operations, and State / Federal governments.
A technical company earns trust by saying clearly what it does, who it serves, why it matters, and where the product has real proof. Here, marketing turns product truth, customer pain, field lessons, and market research into credible public language. That is what you are coming in to help build.
The Role
You will help build Hoplynk’s content engine and public presence across LinkedIn, blog posts, videos, product pages, customer research, events, and campaigns.
This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to learn how a technical company turns product value propositions, real-world customer needs, and market research into clear public messaging. You will help create and manage content around autonomous networking, deployable communications, public safety, defense, critical infrastructure, distributed enterprises, and field operations.
What You’ll Own
● Drafting, editing, and posting content for Hoplynk’s LinkedIn, blog, website, and other public channels
● A content calendar tied to events, product milestones, field deployments, conferences, and relevant market themes
● Website updates, landing pages, product copy, and visuals
● Video workflows: scripts, clip assembly/editing, mix/master audio, and publishing
● Clear messaging for buyers, partners, operators, investors, and technical audiences
● Market research on customers, competitors, use cases, events, industry trends, and campaign angles
● Customer outreach support, campaign setup, feedback collection, and research notes
● Content performance tracking and iteration based on what messages resonate
First 30 Days
You will understand Hoplynk’s products, markets, customers, and current public presence. You will learn the language of autonomous networking, field communications, public safety, defense, critical infrastructure, and distributed operations.
You will take ownership of a working content calendar and publish or prepare your first pieces of content: LinkedIn posts, website edits, video scripts, event content, research briefs, or landing page copy.
By 90 Days
You will have shipped a visible body of work: a maintained and executed content calendar, published posts, website improvements, video assets, market research briefs, campaign materials, or customer-outreach support.
The work should make Hoplynk clearer to the market, more consistent in public, and better informed about the audiences it serves.
What You’ve Done Before
You have put serious thought into media and text to be comprehended by real people. They may be LinkedIn posts, newsletters, articles, scripts, landing pages, research briefs, case studies, videos, school publications, startup projects, or personal work.
You have good judgment about tone, audience, evidence, and credibility. You can take a complex idea and make it understandable without sanding it down into generic language.
You may have worked with Framer, Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Premiere Pro, CapCut, analytics tools, SEO, paid ads, email campaigns, or CRM systems.
What You Haven’t Done
You have not treated marketing as vague, generic posting. You do not hide weak thinking behind buzzwords. You are not satisfied with content that sounds polished but substantively says nothing.
You do not need to be a full domain expert in public safety, defense, networking, or critical infrastructure. You do need to be curious enough to research carefully, ask better questions, and turn technical truth into public language.
How to Know If This Is You
If you have a real answer to each of these:
- Regarding something you wrote, made, edited, published, researched, or managed — What was the audience and what did you want them to do?
- Take a technical product you admire. How would you explain it to a buyer without making it sound generic?
- Walk through how you would build one month of content from a product milestone, a field deployment, and a customer pain point.
Logistics
Bay Area in-person highly preferred. Remote possible for the right candidate. This is a paid summer internship. Target dates are June 1 - September 1, with flexibility on start and end dates.
How to Apply
Please apply on Handshake with:
- Resume
- Portfolio of work, including writing samples, content examples, videos, websites, research work, or any material that shows how you think and communicate
- Short note of interest describing one piece of content, research, or creative work you made and why it worked, and how you’d be excited to bring this approach specifically to Hoplynk.
Send questions to tim.carroll@hoplynk.com.
How We Work
- Candor: say the hard thing kindly, early, and with evidence. Speak up during decisions, not after them.
- Humility: change your mind when the facts demand it. Teach and learn in the open. Celebrate team wins over heroics.
- Initiative: run toward the smoke. Own problems end-to-end. Ship in small, safe steps with clear, observable outcomes.
Hoplynk is an equal opportunity employer.