Student Marketing Associate (Fully Remote)

About Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships is redefining the path from education to work. We combine a scalable platform with strategic partnership to deliver structured, work-based learning experiences with real employability outcomes.

Trusted by 250+ universities and 20,000 companies worldwide, we’ve achieved 4x bookings year-over-year and secured our first multi-year, multi-million dollar partnerships with leading universities, reinforcing the long-term demand for our model.

Our growth and impact have been recognized globally:

• $14.3M Series A fundraise (September 2022) , with investors including Hambro Perks, Sequoia India & Surge, Arsenal Growth, Kaplan, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures

• Finalist – International Business of the Year, British Business Awards 2025

• PIEoneer Award – Employability International Impact 2025

• Top 100 EdTech Startup by HolonIQ (2021, 2022, 2023)

• Top 50 Rising Startup , Tech in Asia (2022)

We’re a remote-first team of 80+ professionals across 20+ countries, united by our Culture of Growth. As we scale remote internships globally, we’re expanding our platform and partnerships – with a clear ambition to double our revenue in the next fiscal year.

We believe candidates should have a clear view of how we work before deciding to apply. Explore our VI-P Guide to learn more about our values, how we operate, how we design our packages, and what it’s like to work at Virtual Internships.

Your Role

You will drive student awareness, activation, and registrations to our Virtual Internships platform by:

• Making Virtual Internships more visible to students at our partner institutions through digital content and on-campus activation.

• Enabling partnership managers with high-quality content, collateral, and activation assets.

• Building content to increase activation within our partner network and across the student ecosystem.

• Creating compelling content that can be distributed across multi-channel campaigns to engage students.

What You'll Do

Content Strategy & Creation

• Develop and distribute high-impact digital content and multi-channel campaigns that build VI awareness and leverage social proof.

• Collaborate with internal teams to produce punchy copy for emails, landing pages, and in-product nudges.

• Track performance metrics to iterate, optimize, or scale content experiments.

Community & Student Engagement

• Own and grow our presence across Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit through active community management and engagement.

• Manage the campus ambassador program, including recruitment, incentive structures, and creative activation briefs.

• Drive student reach via collaborative partnerships, UGC, and KOL engagement.

Partnership Enablement

• Equip partnership managers with toolkits, collateral, and self-service assets to accelerate student activation at partner institutions.

• Identify and deploy both digital and offline campus activation opportunities across the partner network.

Why You'll Love This Role

• You’ll have high ownership and autonomy from day one - your ideas won’t sit in a backlog.

• You’ll get to design and run creative, multi-channel student marketing campaigns that reach learners globally.

• You’ll have the freedom to experiment, iterate, and move fast, with a team that values action over perfection.

• Your work will tie directly to real, measurable outcomes: student engagement, registrations, and partner success.

• You’ll build scalable growth engines, from content systems to rep programs to new activation channels.

Who We're Looking For

You'll likely have experience in:

• Student Marketing or Campus Marketing

• Social Media Marketing or Community Management

• Partnerships, Events, or Brand Activation

You'll also bring:

• Experience creating engaging content across multiple digital channels

• Confidence managing social media communities (Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, or similar)

• Creativity combined with strong execution and attention to detail

• Ability to collaborate across teams in a remote, fast-paced environment

• A genuine passion for understanding and engaging student audiences

Whichever one you are, you'll have:

• Fluency in English - no IELTS required, but if you have one, think 7.0+

Virtual Internships Perks and Benefits

• Remote-First: All roles at VI are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere.

• Flexible Working Hours: Start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch, or leave later, it's totally up to you.

• Annual Leave: Wherever you are in the world, you’ll get 25 days of paid annual leave per year, plus bank holidays and 5 sick days.

• Life Event Leave: There are moments in life where your life responsibility is a higher priority than work (e.g. moving house, your best friend getting married, your sister having a baby) therefore, you’ll get 5 days of paid life-event leave to support these occasions. You also get a day off on your birthday. This is in addition to your Annual Leave.

Equality & Diversity

Virtual Internships is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. We ensure all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process.