Top Internships in Santa Cruz, CA

Assist authors and publishing professionals by offering support, reviewing projects, optimizing user engagement, maintaining FAQs, and suggesting product improvements.

As a Content Marketing Intern, you will assist in executing Reedsy's content strategy, focusing on SEO, content creation, and promotion to acquire leads.

Support the marketing team with social copy, creative direction, reporting, and advertising execution across social, email, and paid channels. Learn to read performance data, manage reporting in Google Sheets/HubSpot, and participate in cross-department creative workflows for client channels.

Assist in developing and testing features for a data security platform, collaborate on projects, participate in research, and support documentation efforts.

Support website content editing, formatting, and publishing. Update job listings and resources, optimize content for SEO and accessibility, test site functionality, integrate multimedia, and collaborate with marketing to maintain brand voice and improve usability.

As a Data Science Intern, you'll learn to translate business challenges into statistical problems, analyze large datasets, build machine learning models, and communicate insights effectively.

As a Growth Team SkillBridge Intern, you'll assist with market research, lead generation, proposal management, client engagement, and support sales efforts.

Support creator marketing campaigns including creator communication, campaign workflow and vetting, community engagement, performance monitoring, trend research, and collaborative strategy. Manage tasks independently and contribute to ideation, briefs, and optimization for UGC across social platforms.

Remote paid media internship supporting development and execution of paid search/display strategies across Google, Bing, YouTube, and Performance Max. Assist with Excel-based forecasting, weekly/monthly reporting, performance analysis, cross-team collaboration, strategy meetings, and project management while attending trainings and building biddable media knowledge.

Support the PR & Partnerships team by building media/celebrity/influencer lists, monitoring coverage, assisting pitching and press materials, reporting on campaigns, using Cision/Muck Rack and Asana, and participating in trainings and cross-channel team projects.

Manage transformation and deployment of cybersecurity applications into Kubernetes-based environments. Coordinate between Application Development and Platform teams to remove blockers, track timelines, align product and delivery roadmaps, and communicate technical progress. Serve as Mission Manager for assigned delivery efforts, foster team mentorship and growth, and support adoption of engineering best practices to deliver scalable mission value.

Support the partnerships team in building and executing affiliate marketing strategies: media list building, pitching, affiliate program management, partner relationship maintenance, industry research, and cross-channel collaboration with PR and influencer teams.

Remote fashion marketing intern supporting Senior Account Manager with reporting, trend research, and cross-channel campaign execution. Create weekly/monthly trend reports, assist in paid channel initiatives, collaborate across departments, and attend trainings to learn performance, reporting, and agency processes.

Remote, credit-bearing internship delivering hands-on experience in email and SMS lifecycle marketing. Interns will build campaigns and calendars, write copy, segment audiences, construct customer journeys, analyze performance and A/B tests, optimize experiences, assist with reporting and ad hoc projects, and complete an end-of-semester client deliverable.

Remote, hands-on social media internship supporting organic strategy: execute content calendars, write on-brand copy, monitor analytics, track trends, engage on social accounts, contribute creative ideas, leverage AI tools and Power Digital's Nova, and manage tasks independently (15–20 hrs/week, college-credit enrollment required).

Support influencer programs end-to-end: build targeted influencer lists, assist with creative briefs, pitching, invoicing, communications, and reporting. Research competitors and trends, contribute to campaign ideation across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, participate in training and team projects, and develop project management skills using Asana while collaborating across teams.

Support marketing operations strategist with HubSpot MAP setups, CRM/ESP migrations, data clean-up, automation, list segmentation, and reporting. Assist in MAP/CRM optimizations, attend trainings, contribute strategy ideas, and learn marketing operations practices.

Work with the data team to design, build, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines and data models using Microsoft Fabric, dbt, PySpark, and SQL. Integrate and validate data across layers, optimize performance in Azure, follow GitHub CI/CD workflows, and document data governance while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Support building and redesigning responsive, mobile-friendly websites; create wireframes and sitemaps; develop front-end UIs and assist with back-end tasks; optimize for performance, scalability, and SEO; participate in brainstorming, debugging, testing, and follow clean coding and version-control best practices under developer mentorship.

Unpaid 3–6 month internship offering hands-on experience across social work, case management, HR, development, marketing, retail merchandising, project management, and events. Interns assist with client intake, outreach, research, content creation, administrative tasks, event support, and daily operations while building skills, networks, and receiving reference letters upon completion.

As a Product Manager Intern, you'll collaborate with leadership to shape the product, define requirements, and drive feature delivery for an analytics platform.

As an Accounting Intern, you'll perform routine accounting tasks, assist in reporting, and gain exposure to financial analysis and forecasting while maintaining a flexible schedule.

Paid Fall 2026 public relations internship supporting tech and consumer electronics clients. Interns research media contacts, build media lists, draft press releases and pitches, conduct competitive research, assist on client accounts, pitch media and influencers, and help with new business proposals while reporting to a senior PR mentor.

Paid four-week Appian internship with instructor-led training and hands-on Appian development. Shadow consultants, build applications, test and integrate solutions, produce documentation, participate in Agile teams, and develop consulting and communication skills. Top performers may receive full-time offers.

As a GTM Associate, you'll produce social media content, create videos, support email marketing, develop blog posts, engage with the community, and report on performance metrics, all while working in a remote startup environment.