Marketing & growth intern

About HappiNest
HappiNest is an AI leasing agent for mid-market property management companies. It answers every rental inquiry by voice and text, qualifies the prospect, books the tour, and writes the record into the property manager's software. We're a founding team of three based in St. Petersburg, Chicago and Montreal, with paying customers on thousands of doors, a named case study with one of Tampa Bay's largest property managers, and certified partnerships with the industry's leading property management platforms.
What you'll do
Each intern owns one lane for the semester, with a defined deliverable and multiple check-ins every week with the CPO:
Industry research and PR: run our quarterly mystery-shop of property management leasing lines and help turn the results into a published industry report; build and work the press, podcast and newsletter outreach list; manage our presence on review sites and partner directories.
Content and LinkedIn: turn call recordings, data and customer results into a weekly content system for the founders and the company page; draft comparison and segment pages with our search lead.
Events and partnerships: pre-conference meeting booking, booth logistics and the post-show follow-up sequence for national property management conferences; partner-marketplace listings; the customer referral program.
Paid media and analytics: weekly search-term reviews, LinkedIn and Meta retargeting, the marketing dashboard and the demos-by-source tracker.
What you'll learn
How a B2B software company chooses a market position and builds a message architecture from customer evidence.
How to design and run a primary-research study and turn it into press, content and sales conversations.
How partner ecosystems (software marketplaces, industry associations, conferences) work as distribution channels.
How paid search and retargeting are structured, measured and killed when they don't work.
How to read a marketing funnel end to end: awareness, demo, close, and retention, with real numbers.
Who you are
Enrolled in an MBA or related graduate program (or a senior undergraduate in marketing, communications or business) eligible for internship credit.
Hands-on marketing experience: you've shipped a campaign, an event, a content program or a research project, not only studied them.
Writes clearly and fast; comfortable calling a stranger and asking a question.
Organized enough to run a 500-row spreadsheet and a follow-up cadence without being chased.
Curious about B2B software, real estate operations or AI products. Property management experience is a plus, not a requirement.
Based in Tampa Bay or able to work remotely on Eastern time; occasional attendance at a conference or customer visit is optional.
What you get
Academic credit: we complete your program's agreement, learning plan, hour logs and evaluations.
A named deliverable you own (the report, the press program, the content system, the conference playbook) and can show in an interview.
A small equity grant at successful completion, documented under our option plan.
Weekly time with the founders and a reference from the CPO and CEO
How to apply
Send a résumé and one paragraph on this: A property manager gets 40% of their rental inquiries after hours. Draft the LinkedIn post that makes them care. Applications to mehdi@happinest.ai, or through your program's portal.
HappiNest is an equal-opportunity employer. This internship is unpaid and offered for academic credit under the sponsoring program's guidelines; it does not displace paid staff.

Work arrangement
Yes