Social Media and Content Intern

About the Company

Helaina is a cutting-edge nutrition biotech company creating nutrients of the future. Helaina leverages a world-class team in food science, nutrition, and engineering to develop breakthrough food ingredients designed to improve health for everyone.

The company’s vision is to build a nutrient platform that powers the future of consumer health by introducing bioactive proteins to the market for the very first time. Our journey was inspired by breast milk — a unique substance that is both food and medicine. Helaina’s Founder, Laura Katz, saw parents, cancer patients, and athletes seeking out these proteins for their proven ability to boost immunity, gut health, and brain development.

Helaina's first product is effera®, an identical replica of human lactoferrin, one of breast milk's most powerful proteins. effera® supports iron absorption and women's health, supports immune function, crosses the blood-brain barrier for cognitive support, and supports recovery and healthy aging.

About the Team

Marketing at Helaina is a team of one, supported by a small group of specialist contractors. That means real ownership from day one and no layers between you and the work. Our audience ranges from the brands who formulate with us to the people who follow the company itself, and the content has to be credible first and engaging second.

About the Role

We’re looking for someone to be our eyes and camera in the New York office. Helaina’s most valuable content is the stuff that happens live: our founder explaining the science, the team in the lab, a customer visit, a milestone hit on a Monday morning. Right now most of it goes uncaptured.

Three things sit inside this role, and they matter equally:

• Helaina, the company — Our Instagram is about Helaina, not just the product — culture, people, science, milestones, the founder’s story.
• Laura’s own channels — Supporting our CEO’s content so her voice shows up consistently.
• effera® — Our lead ingredient and the thing most often being explained — but not the whole story.

You will shoot on site, edit, and deliver an agreed set of finished assets each month.

What You’ll Do

• Shoot short-form video in the NYC office against a monthly content plan agreed with your manager.
• Act as the point person for founder content. When Laura is writing, presenting, hosting, or explaining something, you are the one who captures it.
• Direct simple on-camera setups, including talking-head pieces with the CEO and members of the science and commercial teams.
• Edit your own footage to finished, caption-ready assets sized correctly for Instagram and LinkedIn.
• Cover company culture, team moments, lab and production, and lighter formats where they suit the brand.
• Maintain a clear shot log and organized asset library in Google Drive so footage is reusable.
• Come in with two or three ideas of your own, but take overall direction from the marketing manager.
• Flag anything that touches product claims or study data to your manager before it is scheduled. Everything we publish about effera® goes through a review step.

About You

• You shoot on a phone and it looks intentional, not accidental. You have a reel we can watch.
• You edit competently in CapCut, Premiere, Final Cut, or Canva. We’re not precious about the tool.
• You work independently. We have an external designer who can help occasionally, but this role is not built around leaning on her — you can take something from idea to finished asset yourself.
• You’re flexible on scheduling. Time in the office moves around the CEO’s calendar, so you can work with dates that shift.
• You understand how Instagram and LinkedIn actually behave, not just how they look. You can explain why a post worked.
• You’re comfortable directing a CEO — asking for another take, moving someone into better light, and holding your ground on the shot.
• Bonus points for any interest in science, nutrition, biotech, or health, or for experience making technical subject matter feel human.
• Bonus points for basic graphic or motion work in Canva or After Effects.

Why This Role Is Worth Your Time

You’ll spend most of your hours working directly alongside our founder and CEO — genuine one-to-one time with the person running the company: sitting in on how she thinks about the science, the customers, and the story, and seeing how decisions actually get made inside a growing biotech. It’s a rare vantage point for anyone building a career in content, communications, or founder-led marketing, and you’ll leave with a portfolio of work you had real authorship over.

Practical Details

• 16 to 20 hours a month to start, covering both shooting and editing. There’s room to grow the hours if the work is strong.
• Time in the office is scheduled around the CEO’s availability rather than a fixed day, so flexibility is part of the job — we’ll work with you to make the most of the in-office time.
• Paid hourly. This is a part-time paid role, not an unpaid internship.
• Initial six months, with the option to continue if it’s working well for both sides.
• Equipment (phone/camera and editing software) is not provided — you bring your own.
• Open to current students and recent graduates, and to anyone building a portfolio in content production.

This is a paid, part-time, hourly role. The good-faith pay range for this position is $20–$28 per hour, commensurate with experience and portfolio strength.

Helaina is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Helaina we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the strongest candidate for this or other roles. For more information, please contact [email protected].

Learn more about Helaina at https://www.myhelaina.com/news