Brand Social Media Intern (Fall 2026)

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Location: San Francisco, CA Dates: September 14 - December 4

About the role We are seeking a creative and driven Brand Social Media Intern to help execute an impactful, high-visibility social media strategy. This role will support a major new Cloudflare awareness campaign and a large-scale Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising blitz in the San Francisco Bay Area during Q4. Timed alongside Connect, our global annual user conference, this campaign—titled “Paint the Town Orange”—aims to bridge physical and digital advertising. You will play a key role in extending our local OOH presence into a global social media movement, driving engagement among Cloudflare’s customers, prospects, and tech community.

Responsibilities

• Social Amplification & Experiential Marketing: Drive digital engagement for our brand awareness campaign and other marketing activations by utilizing and repurposing footage from OOH and live experiential events.

• Virtual OOH & Content Ideation: Brainstorm, concept, and help create "Virtual OOH" (CGI/digital-first) social content to maximize online visual impact and virality.

• Copywriting & Traffic Management: Develop compelling social ad copy and manage the creation of tracking/destination URLs to support campaign goals.

• Global Calendar Management: Oversee a campaign-specific social media calendar, ensuring all platforms across all target languages are synchronized and executed in close partnership with the Corporate Social team.

• Localization & Distribution: Coordinate translations and manage distribution specifically for Cloudflare's Japanese social media handles to ensure regional relevance.

• Campaign Project Management: Maintain organization, track deadlines, and manage project workflows to keep multi-channel campaign deliverables on schedule.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Currently pursuing a degree or program in Marketing or relevant field to the role.

• A social media native with a pulse on current Internet culture, emerging digital trends, and visual storytelling.

• Strong copyediting skills and an eye for creative multimedia content (video, virtual OOH, etc.).

• Excellent project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multi-language calendars.

• Available for a full-time, 12-week internship, working from our San Francisco office 3-5 days a week during the fall (Sept-Dec).

Compensation

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated hourly rate of $27.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

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