Remote Regional Growth Marketing Internship (Performance-Based Startup Role)
About BuzzSpoon (BuzzSpoon.com)
🥄 BuzzSpoon is The Food-Sharing Social Platform 🍪
BuzzSpoon combines social media + local food discovery + foodie culture into one platform where everyone can:
📸 Post & Share their homemade dishes and serve plates to friends nearby
🎫 Earn BuzzBucks — Points earned by serving plates of their own dishes — and spent to grab plates from others near you via pickup or delivery
🔁 DishSwap —Swipe right, propose a trade, meet up to swap their dishes
👥 Explore & Connect—explore content from everyone’s kitchen and build a following
💚 Grow their home-based/micro food business — if you have a Cottage Food License, Food Handling Certificate, or Food Service Permit, we'll approve you to sell plates of your dishes directly on BuzzSpoon as an Authorized Food Seller
More about selling 👉BuzzSpoon.com/pro
Position Overview
BuzzSpoon is an early-stage startup looking for motivated, outgoing, and entrepreneurial Regional Growth Ambassador Interns and/or temporarily hires to rapidly grow the platform’s foodie community across different cities and regions throughout the U.S.
This is a remote, performance-based internship focused on grassroots growth, direct outreach, user acquisition, and regional expansion.
Regional Growth Ambassador Interns should live in or be highly familiar with the region they’re helping grow so they can better connect with local foodie communities, conduct outreach, and help drive real platform activity within their area.
You’ll be responsible for actively attracting new users and culinary creators onto the platform while helping drive engagement and growth within your assigned region.
This includes both everyday users and qualified cottage food bakers, dessert creators, home bakers, and small food businesses interested in becoming Authorized Food Sellers on BuzzSpoon.
Responsibilities
• Conduct grassroots outreach to foodies, home cooks, bakers, culinary creators, students, and local communities within your region
• Make outbound cold calls and direct outreach to potential users and food businesses
• Attract new users and culinary creators to join BuzzSpoon
• Drive signups, onboarding activity, and platform engagement within your region
• Recruit qualified Authorized Food Sellers onto the platform
• Explain how users and sellers can:
• Create their BuzzSpoon profile (“Table”)
• Post dishes
• Build a following
• Request and serve plates
• Engage with their local foodie community
• Grow activity around their Table
• Generate local platform activity and community growth
• Follow up with prospects and drive continued engagement on the platform
• Track outreach efforts, signups, onboarding activity, and regional growth progress
• Contribute ideas and feedback to improve growth and user acquisition strategies
Ideal Candidate
• Strong communication and people skills
• Outgoing and comfortable talking with new people
• Comfortable with cold outreach and grassroots growth efforts
• Self-motivated and entrepreneurial
• Interest in food culture, startups, creator communities, or local networking
• Sales, outreach, ambassador, recruiting, or community engagement experience is a plus
• Organized and comfortable working independently
• Familiar with the local community and culture within their region
Compensation
• 100% performance-based compensation tied to regional user acquisition, culinary creator onboarding, and platform growth initiatives.
• Remote role focused on growing your local region
• Flexible self-managed schedule
• Startup growth opportunity
• Opportunity to help grow an early-stage social platform from the ground up
• Great real-world experience in startups, growth, outreach, and community-building
Great Fit For
• College students
• Community builders
• Foodies and culinary creators
• Brand ambassadors
• Startup-minded individuals
• People who enjoy networking and grassroots outreach
What Makes BuzzSpoon Different
• Unlike traditional food apps or listing platforms, BuzzSpoon is built as a true foodie-driven social platform where people can connect through homemade food, discover nearby dishes, interact with creators, build local foodie communities, and even grow their own food business through the platform.
