Intern, Marketing (Part-Time/Paid)

Category: Marketing
Location: Washington, DC Metro Area


Building Hospitality Better. 

Tomu is a sustainability-focused hospitality development company. Founded in 2020, Tomu designs and builds prefabricated lodging units using its proprietary modular building system to address emerging traveler preferences in the hospitality industry.

At Tomu, we have a simple mission – to create a more sustainable future for hospitality using innovations in modular building to make hotels and rentals more efficient to construct, less wasteful to operate, and more accessible to own.

What will I be doing?

As the Intern, Marketing you will help bring the Tomu brand story to life through marketing. In this role, you will be hands-on in the launch of the Tomu brand and deploying your creative talents to grow our audience of potential direct-to-consumer and business-to-business customers. This role requires a personal perspective and desire to learn more about the diverse field of marketing and the ability to translate that knowledge into implementable strategies to achieve Marketing goals. An adaptable personality and project management skills will be needed as this position supports the deliverables of concurrent Marketing needs.

Specifically, you will be:

  • Ideating and implementing ways to organically grow our social media audience

  • Supporting photo/video content shoots

  • Copywriting for social media posts, email blasts, website content, and other marketing assets

  • Managing comments and replies of social media accounts

  • Supporting any event activations

You will be learning:

  • Brand, product, and retail marketing

  • Paid-media strategies, tactics and audience targeting (performance marketing)

  • Email marketing best practices

  • Modular construction, interior design, carpentry, and product development

This will be an hourly part-time position based remotely in the Washington, DC-area with occasional visits to the Frederick, Maryland fabrication facility.

What are we looking for?

  • Minimum two (2) years of experience in a marketing or media-related role or undergraduate marketing program

  • Additional experience/knowledge desired: thorough of understanding of Instagram/TikTok features and associated photo and video editing apps; experience with Adobe Creative Suite a plus

Tomu believes in the power of personal experience and sets no formal education requirements for our opportunities. If you believe you have skill sets outside of our stated requirements that make you the perfect fit for the role, send us a cover letter and tell us why!