Social Media Internship Program (Summer 2027)

Your work won't sit in a folder.

About selfpublishing.com

• The Role Do you have a camera roll full of edits, a notes app full of hooks, and a real curiosity about how brands grow online?
• Then please read on… selfpublishing.com is a back-to-back-to-back INC 5000 company & we're launching our Summer 2027 Social Media Internship Program .
• Our mission is to TRANSFORM THE LIVES of authors by helping them write and publish books, grow their businesses, and launch their author careers!
• This is an in-person summer internship based in our Westlake (Austin) office.
• You'll create real content for two brands: selfpublishing.com and our CEO Chandler Bolt's personal brand.
• help 100,000 people publish a book by 2035 , impacting 120M+ lives through what we call Leveraged Impact.
• (You can hear more about it in our TEDx talk ).
• We’re not just helping people write books...we’re helping them change their lives.
• We’ve built one of the highest success rates in online education because we genuinely care...about our authors, their stories, and the ripple effect they create.
• 💡 It’s not about the book.
• It’s about what the book does for you. 🚀 Self-publishing isn’t just an option...it’s the best option.
• We’re proud to have been named to the INC 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022.
• And we’re just getting started.
• Do you love organizing, anticipating needs, and keeping things running seamlessly?
• We’re looking for a rockstar Executive Assistant to support our CEO so he can stay focused on high-impact, strategic work.
• This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, loves solving problems, and gets energy from helping others succeed.

Responsibilities

• It gets posted.
• You'll be part of the team that plans, films, edits, and ships content every week.
• Your north stars?
• Making scroll-stopping short-form content and learning exactly why it works. 🌱 More specifically, you'll: 🎬 Create original short-form content (Reels, TikToks, YouTube Shorts) for two brands: selfpublishing.com and our CEO Chandler Bolt's personal brand ✂️ Edit and repurpose existing long-form content, including podcast episodes and YouTube videos, into short clips for both brands ✍️ Write captions, hooks, and on-screen text that match each brand's voice 🎥 Help plan and film content in our Austin office, including behind-the-scenes, founder content with Chandler, and team moments 🔍 Research trending formats, sounds, and creators in the author, book, and entrepreneurship spaces, and pitch new ideas 📅 Schedule and post content across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook 📊 Track performance on your posts and share what's working in weekly check-ins 💬 Engage with our communities by replying to comments and DMs What You'll Learn 🧠 How a real content team plans, produces, and ships content every week 🌿 How to grow a company brand and a founder's personal brand side by side, and how they work differently 🎞️ Short-form editing and storytelling that holds attention 📈 How to read analytics and turn data into better content 💸 How social media drives real business results

Requirements

• Students studying marketing, communications, film, journalism, or a related field
• You know how to edit, whether that’s on your phone (CapCut, InShot) or your computer (Premiere, Final Cut, or similar)
• You’re a creator yourself, or at least deeply creative, and you love telling stories
• You’re the person who’s always saving videos to recreate later or sending yourself hooks you like
• You’re into entrepreneurship and business building, or you love reading, writing, and books (bonus if it’s both) Self-starter who can take feedback and turn work around fast

Preferred

• a portfolio, personal page, or any content you’ve made
• 🌎 About selfpublishing.com We help purpose-driven individuals achieve their goals through writing and publishing books.