Location: Remote (U.S. East Coast Time Zones preferred)
Contract Length: 8 months (with potential to extend)
Time Commitment: Full time 40 hours/week
Extern is bridging the gap between education and industry through remote externships. We help college students across the U.S. build real-world experience by working on real company projects — regardless of major, GPA, or background.
Creators are one of our most powerful acquisition channels and we want to hyper charge this channel.
We’re hiring a performance-driven Influencer Marketer to take ownership of our creator engine for 8 months with an opportunity to extend.
This role is not coordination. It’s ownership. You will directly influence student acquisition and help turn influencer marketing into a scalable, predictable growth channel.
This role will own the full lifecycle of Extern’s influencer and creator partnerships — from discovery and evaluation to contract negotiation, relationship management, and performance tracking. Extern’s Marketing function is highly adapted to in-house agentic workflows that we built from scratch, so this role will be given onboarding on managing AI agents for influencer content and management.
You will work cross-functionally with growth, marketing, and performance stakeholders to define strategy and ensure influencer efforts are aligned with broader acquisition goals.
You will also collaborate on Extern’s own TikTok strategy, given its importance as a primary audience channel.
This is not a purely creative role — it is strategic, operational, and analytical.
You will own the full lifecycle of creator partnerships across TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn from sourcing to performance optimization.
By the end of 8 months, you will have:
Creators are one of Extern’s highest-leverage growth channels. This role sits at the intersection of brand, performance, and community — and directly impacts how thousands of college students discover Extern.
You won’t just manage influencers. You’ll build an acquisition engine.
At Extern, we’re solving the experience gap. Extern created the remote Externship, a skill-building work experience that is easier for students to access, and easier for companies to run, than an internship. Our mission is to help anyone discover and launch their career through professional experiences available anywhere at any time. Since 2020, we’ve created and powered Externships for over 50,000 students on behalf of companies from Fortune 500s to startups.
After spending $100K on average for a 4-year degree, graduates find that almost 40% of entry level jobs on Linkedin required 3+ years of work experience. Internships are how many college students get this kind of experience, but the demand for good internships outstrips the supply. Internship programs are difficult to scale, they favor students who already have social capital, and they’re time-consuming for employers to run.
Externships are short, online, project-based work experiences that employers can offer to hundreds of students using less resource and employee time than it would take to support an intern. Extern makes the complex process of running an Externship completely turnkey with software and industry experts which in turn makes professional experience more accessible to more students.
By making work experience more accessible, Extern is driving the rapid mobility and upskilling needed for a new economy. We envision a world where anyone can access work experience as a form of education – no matter their background, experience, or socio-economic status. Come join our movement to reshape work, education, and credentialing for future generations with the Externship.
Extern was born out of a pivot from Paragon One (W17) which initially focused on providing students with a career center-as-a-service platform, connecting them with industry professionals to receive career coaching and guidance. Backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Launch Fund, University Ventures, and Learn Capital.
Salary
$40 - $60
Location
Remote
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$2.1M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Matt Wilkerson
Co-Founder & CEO
Matt Wilkerson
LinkedInNo applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.