About Activate Global
Activate empowers scientists and engineers to reinvent our world by bringing their research to market. We partner with leading funders and research institutions to offer the Activate Fellowship, providing the funding, community, mentorship, network, and time that scientists need to become entrepreneurs.
The results are game changing: Activate Fellows have launched 197 new companies since 2015. These companies have raised $4B in follow-on funding, created more than 2,800 U.S.-based jobs, and defined several new market categories. Activate supports fellows in Berkeley, CA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Houston, TX; and across the U.S. through Activate Anywhere.
Position Summary
Activate is seeking a summer & fall intern to support outreach and engagement efforts for the Activate Fellowship—our flagship program supporting scientists and engineers in bringing breakthrough technologies from lab to market.
In this role, you will contribute to the execution of high-quality communications and marketing initiatives that help reach and inspire prospective applicants. You’ll support recruitment campaigns by helping ensure messaging is clear, consistent, and compelling across channels—from email to webinars to web content.
This is an execution-focused role on the Brand team, ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, organized, and interested in communications to expand access to deep tech entrepreneurship.
Primary Responsibilities
- Draft, build, and execute email campaigns in HubSpot to engage prospective applicants and partners
- Support social media and communications project management for the recruitment cycle
- Help maintain consistency and quality across messaging in partnership with the Brand team
- Update and maintain recruitment-related website content and FAQs
- Support development and refinement of outreach materials for communities and partners
- Coordinate logistics for recruitment webinars (Zoom, Luma, calendar invites, registration tracking)
- Ensure a seamless experience for attendees through strong operational execution
- Support HubSpot permissions management and help maintain CRM hygiene for recruitment campaigns
- Track timelines, deliverables, and communications across the recruitment cycle
- Assist Fellowship and Community teams with outreach execution and coordination
- Coordinate with Brand team to ensure alignment across campaigns and channels
Ideal Candidate
- Strong communicator with a willingness to learn and contribute in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft clear, compelling, and professional content
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong execution mindset—you follow through and ensure things get done well
- Comfortable working within structured systems, timelines, and tools
- Able to adapt quickly and manage shifting priorities
- Collaborative and responsive when working across teams
- Familiarity with tools like HubSpot, Asana, Notion, or similar
- Experience supporting email campaigns, events, or marketing operations
- Interest in communications, marketing, or brand strategy
- Curiosity about science, innovation, climate, or hard tech
- Belief in supporting scientists and engineers to bring world-changing ideas to market
About the Role
This is a 40-hour per week paid internship running from June 1 through December 1, 2026, with a pay rate of $23.00/hour. The role is open to U.S.-based candidates, with a preference for those located in the Bay Area (CA), Boston (MA), New York (NY), or Houston (TX), though remote work is available from any state where Activate operates.
This internship sits on the Brand team, reporting to the Director of Communications, and will partner closely with the Recruitment and Pipeline teams.
Encouraging Applications from All Backgrounds
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming workplace for all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Activate Global, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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