Marketing coordinator intern

Marketing Coordinator Intern

Location: In Office

Employment Type: Full-Time, Paid Internship

Position Overview

We're looking for a creative, organized, and motivated Marketing Coordinator Intern to join our growing team. This is a hands-on, full-time paid internship supporting marketing initiatives across a portfolio of restaurant, hospitality, and lifestyle brands.

The Marketing Coordinator Intern will assist with graphic design, content creation, social media, influencer marketing, PR, video editing, and campaign coordination while gaining hands-on experience across multiple areas of agency marketing. This role will support day-to-day marketing efforts, from shooting and editing content to creating graphics, coordinating influencer visits, assisting with social media, and helping execute campaigns, launches, promotions, and events.

The ideal candidate is eager to learn, highly organized, comfortable balancing multiple projects, and excited to gain experience across both the creative and coordination sides of hospitality marketing.

Responsibilities:

Content & Creative

• Assist with capturing photo and video content at client locations.
• Design social media graphics, flyers, menus, and promotional assets.
• Edit short-form video for Instagram, TikTok, Reels, and digital ads.
• Help maintain brand consistency across creative assets and client platforms.
• Assist with developing creative concepts for campaigns, launches, promotions, and events.
• Organize photo, video, and creative assets for ongoing use.

Social Media Support

• Assist with planning, scheduling, and publishing content across social media platforms.
• Help write captions, hashtags, and community engagement responses.
• Support the development and organization of content calendars across multiple client accounts.
• Monitor social media accounts for comments, messages, tags, and user-generated content.
• Assist with reviewing content performance and identifying trends or opportunities.
• Help ensure promotions, events, specials, and other timely initiatives are accurately reflected across social channels.

Influencer & PR Support

• Research and source influencers and creators for client campaigns.
• Assist with influencer outreach, scheduling, and visit coordination.
• Help coordinate comped meals, events, and brand activations.
• Track influencer deliverables, posts, and campaign results.
• Maintain organized influencer lists and campaign records.
• Support PR initiatives, media research, and outreach as needed.

Client & Campaign Support

• Support the team with client campaigns and day-to-day marketing initiatives.
• Assist with launches, promotions, events, and experiential activations.
• Help coordinate campaign materials, assets, and deliverables.
• Track deadlines and assist with keeping projects organized and moving forward.
• Help ensure deliverables meet brand and quality standards before completion.
• Provide project updates and communicate outstanding needs to the appropriate team members.

Required Qualifications

• Current student, recent graduate, or early-career candidate interested in marketing, communications, social media, or a related field.
• Familiarity with graphic design tools such as Canva, Adobe, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with short-form video editing.
• Working knowledge of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and current social media trends.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• Ability to balance multiple projects and priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to learn, take direction, and contribute creative ideas.

Preferred

• Previous internship, coursework, or hands-on experience in marketing, social media, content creation, or a related field.
• Interest in hospitality, restaurant, or lifestyle brands.
• Photography or content capture experience.
• Familiarity with influencer marketing or PR.
• Experience with video editing software.
• Familiarity with Meta Business Manager, scheduling tools, and social media analytics.

What We’re Looking For

• Self-starter mentality.
• Eager to learn and take on new responsibilities.
• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven.
• Creative thinker with strong execution skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Strong interest in hospitality, social media, content, and marketing.
• Comfortable receiving feedback and applying it to future work.
• Problem-solver who is willing to jump in and support the team wherever needed.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full-time, compensated internship.
• Competitive hourly pay.
• Hands-on experience working with hospitality and lifestyle brands.
• Exposure to social media, content creation, influencer marketing, PR, events, and brand strategy.
• Opportunity to build a professional portfolio across multiple brands and types of creative work.
• Direct experience working within a fast-paced marketing agency.
• Opportunity for continued growth within Solid State Marketing.

Solid State Marketing is a Southern California-based marketing, public relations, and creative agency specializing in hospitality, restaurants, nightlife, entertainment, and experiential brands.

With a portfolio of more than 40 hospitality-focused clients, Solid State serves as an extension of our partners’ internal teams, bringing strategy, creative, content, public relations, digital marketing, and brand growth under one roof.

Our portfolio includes some of Southern California’s most recognized hospitality brands and destinations, including Baja Sharkeez Restaurant Group, Waterfront Bar & Grill, Parfait Paris, Hotel La Jolla, Zama, Allegro, The Quin, Earlybird, and the San Diego Dining Group, among many others.

Our team combines high-level strategy with hands-on execution across social media, professional photography and videography, graphic design, public relations, influencer marketing, paid media, email marketing, events, grand openings, and strategic partnerships.

Beyond traditional marketing, Solid State maintains an established network of media, influencers, creators, hospitality operators, concierges, and community partners throughout Southern California. This allows us to create opportunities beyond individual campaigns and connect our clients with the people, platforms, and audiences that can meaningfully contribute to their growth.

From established restaurant groups and hotels to new openings, nightlife concepts, and large-scale experiences, our focus is building brands that remain visible, relevant, and positioned for long-term growth.