Marketing & Communications Intern (Summer)

Company: Civilization Labs | Location: Remote, US time zones preferred | NYC optional | Time Commitment: Part-time, 20 hours/week | Summer engagement with potential to extend | Reports to: Managing Director and Communications Consultant, working closely with the CEO

Civilization Labs

Most important decisions are still made with a mix of instinct, politics, incomplete evidence, and rationalization. Civilization Labs exists to change that. We're building decision-grade validation tools and systems that help teams pressure-test important choices with clarity, evidence, and explicit uncertainty, not narrative or false confidence. Our aim is simple to say and hard to build: turn consequential decisions into auditable outputs people can actually use and stand behind.

The Opportunity

We're building a public voice for a serious set of ideas, and we need someone to help make it run. This is a hands-on summer role for a student who wants to learn how a company gets its thinking into the world: through op-eds, a newsletter, social channels, journalist relationships, and clear market-facing materials.

You'll work from a strategy set by the CEO, communications advisor, and senior team. Your job is to turn that direction into real output: research that sharpens an article, drafts ready to edit, posts ready to publish, and contact lists and trackers that stay current. You'll see how ideas become commentary, how to build an audience, and how a young company makes a complicated product legible to the people it's trying to reach.

This is a good fit for someone with intern experience in this space: someone organized enough to be useful quickly, who writes clearly, follows through, and is genuinely curious about technology, ideas, and how institutions make decisions.

What you'll do

• Scan the news and find the angle. Track what's happening across AI, labor, energy, institutions, and technology, and flag the stories, assumptions, and openings worth a response. Turn that into a short, useful brief the team can act on.
• Do the research behind the writing. For an article or commentary idea, pull together the supporting facts, reports, counterarguments, recent news hooks, and historical examples so a strong first draft can come together fast.
• Repurpose and publish. Turn op-eds, interviews, and newsletter pieces into clean LinkedIn posts, social threads, and newsletter excerpts, and help keep a consistent publishing rhythm.
• Track the audience and the numbers. Maintain newsletter and social metrics, note what's resonating, and summarize the takeaways in a simple recurring report.
• Build and maintain relationships and lists. Keep a clean, current database of relevant journalists, writers, and contacts, with beats, recent work, and history, and help spot speaking, podcast, and commentary opportunities.
• Help make the product legible. Support clear, plain-language market-facing materials, such as FAQs, positioning notes, and a terminology guide, so a non-expert reader can understand what we do and why it matters.
• Keep the system clean. Maintain the trackers, folders, and light reporting that keep external work organized, with occasional operations support as needed.

Who you are

• You on your own write clearly and naturally. You can draft a clean email, social post, summary, or short brief without needing a heavy rewrite every time (and/or without the help of LLMs!).
• You're highly organized and reliable with details. You like making messy systems cleaner, and you don't drop the ball on follow-ups, trackers, or deadlines.
• You're practical and execution-oriented. You're happy doing the work, not just talking about what should happen, and you can turn rough inputs into a usable first draft or organized workflow.
• You read the news with an eye for what others are missing, and you can tell a strong angle from an obvious one.
• You have good judgment about what's ready to share and what needs review.
• You're comfortable in an early-stage environment where priorities move quickly and systems are still being built, and you can take edits and improve fast.
• You're curious about technology, AI, decision-making, policy, or institutional change. You don't need to be an expert, but you should want to learn the context.

Our Culture

The biggest calls people make, the strategies, plans, and decisions they can't easily walk back, still often get committed on narrative and gut feeling, and the cost lands on real people. We're here to help pressure-test that thinking before anyone commits. That belief shapes the product, and it shapes our culture: we want to do serious work with people who trust evidence over narrative, chase what's true even when it's inconvenient, and care about the consequences of what they build.

• Integrity: Trust starts with honesty, transparency, and respect for reality.
• Accountability: We do what we say we'll do, and we take responsibility when we miss.
• Collaboration: We solve hard problems together and value clear, generous communication.
• Intellectual Curiosity: We stay interested, skeptical, and eager to improve how we think.
• Social Impact: We want our work to leave people, institutions, and society a little more clear-eyed than we found them, especially on the choices that matter most.

Compensation

This is a part-time summer internship (20 hours/week).

• Hourly rate: $20/hour.
• The role may extend or expand past the summer if the work proves valuable and company needs increase.

How to apply

Send your resume, LinkedIn, and a short note (5–10 lines): tell us about one project where you helped keep a fast-moving content, marketing, or communications effort organized, what you owned directly, and what improved because of your work. Include one or two examples of past writing or work (redacted is fine): a content draft, newsletter, social post, short brief, or tracker.

Email join@civilization-labs.com. Subject: "Marketing & Communications Intern – [your name]"