AI Marketing Internship
Location: Remote
Commitment: Minimum 5 hours per week through April 2027.
Employment Type: Part-time Internship or Full-time Internship
Organization Type: HFunds is a 100% volunteer-run organization
Why Us: Our work will prepare you for an AI-powered career while being mission-centric
Potential Benefits: Project-related meals and travel opportunities may be offered to selected participants
Outcome: Experience a real-life startup building a product from 0->1
About Us:
HFunds is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit startup helping children online and on the ground. We were born out of an inspiration to help Ukrainian refugees rebuild their lives. Our success includes powering two charitable organizations, including financial, emotional, and technical assistance that served over 50K Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.
We believe technology should serve people—not treat their attention, identity, and vulnerability as products.
Our Product Development team is introducing Safe Performer, an initiative addressing child-safety problems on social platforms and developing better tools for parents managing young performers’ accounts. A performer can be any child who is featured online, under 18 from musicians to sports athletes.
Why Volunteer with Us?
Do you want to create change for the next generation?
HFunds is looking for Business and Marketing students for Fall 2026 who want to question how technology works—and help build something better.
Social platforms have become extraordinarily good at capturing attention. Families have received far fewer tools for understanding what happens after that attention is captured.
We are not looking for someone to create more content simply because an algorithm demands it. We want someone who can study an audience, understand a real human problem, develop a strategy, test it and measure whether it produced meaningful action.
This is an opportunity to learn how AI is changing the world while also questioning where AI adoption needs to change
What You’ll Do:
As an AI Marketing Strategist, you will:
- Develop Product and Campaign Strategy: Help define audiences, positioning, messages, channels and calls to action for HFunds initiatives.
- Understand Real Users: Research the needs of parents, young performers, donors, volunteers and nonprofit partners.
- Build AI-Centric Workflows: Use AI tools to support research, ideation, campaign development, content analysis and experimentation.
- Work With Technical Builders: Collaborate with students developing AI-powered products and workflows through agentic coding.
- Translate Technology Into Human Value: Explain technical concepts in language that parents, students, partners and donors can understand.
- Evaluate Performance: Track meaningful outcomes such as qualified interest, parent signups, volunteer applications, partner responses and donations—not only views and likes.
- Document What You Learn: Explain what worked, what failed and what HFunds should do next.
You will be given small, defined monthly deliverables and work with a team. AI can assist your work, but you remain responsible for verifying facts, protecting confidential information and exercising human judgment.
What We’re Looking For:
- A high-school senior, 2nd-4th year trade or college student, or recent graduate in the USA
- Strong English skills (either Native or Upper Intermediate for international students)
- Preference for students studying Marketing, Business, Communications, Product Management.
- Tools: Canva, Capcut, Discord, Meta/LinkedIn Ad Operations, ChatGPT/Gemini, MetricCool/Buffer, Loveable
- Curiosity about AI, marketing technology, social platforms and changing user behavior.
- An independent thinker willing to question assumptions constructively.
- Interest in customer research, campaign strategy, product positioning, experimentation or analytics.
- Respect for child safety, privacy, consent and responsible publishing.
- USA-based applicants only. Applicants from Ukraine and Moldova may be considered for remote participation.
- F-1 and OPT applicants will be considered
Why This Role Matters:
AI is changing who can build products, how quickly ideas can be tested and how organizations communicate with the world.
That creates opportunity—but speed without judgment can also scale bad assumptions.
HFunds wants to develop a new generation of Changemakers who understand both sides: how to use AI effectively and how to challenge technology when it works against children, families or communities.
You will build practical experience for your future career by working with others, making strategy decisions, evaluating AI-assisted content and helping educate users.
This is a volunteer internship, not a trial period or promise of future paid employment.
Previous interns now work in the AI field and are making change that they want to see in the world.
How to Apply:
- Confirmation that you can contribute at least five hours per week through April 2027.
- Your response to the following question:
Why do you believe you will be the right person to help lead change in the area of AI and online child safety?