Social Media Intern

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for a creative, organized, and (likely) terminally online intern to join our Social Media team for Summer 2026 and assist our organization in telling GitHub’s brand story to our millions of followers across the world. As a Social Media intern, you’ll help us grow our followings, and create engaging developer-first content. This role will be responsible for helping run our day-to-day social media operations, build understanding of up-and-coming channels as well as work with stakeholders to create social-first content across all of GitHub’s main brand social channels.

This is a remote summer internship for 12 consecutive weeks with start dates between May-June 2026.

Responsibilities

• Assist the social media team in day-to-day operations as well as reporting to the larger company social media’s impact
• Ensure we have a robust calendar across all channels
• Research up and coming platforms and work with Social Media team on proposed approach/potential impact (i.e. Bluesky, Mastodon, etc.)
• Help scale our community management capabilities
• Partner with teams like Developer Relations, Product, Social Impact, and more to create engaging content for our audiences
• Participate in internal meetings and meetings with external partners like our agencies/vendors

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Currently in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree or Master's Degree in Communications or Marketing or related field, with an expected conferral date between December 2026 and August 2027.
• Knowledge and industry awareness of social media platforms, both in the platforms GitHub uses (Meta - FB/Insta, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok), as well as those that are up and coming

Preferred Qualifications:

• Has used different social media platforms and understands the differences between them
• Created content for social media platforms and understand the nuances of creating content specific for different channels
• Enthusiasm to work with teams all across the company to help amplify their work
• Willingness to learn about the nuances of doing social media for a tech company with a very global and superfan audience

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $20.76 - USD $55.14 /Hr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

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