AI-Forward Growth Generalist Intern

Qualifications

• You are AI-forward — you use AI every day to accelerate work
• Experience working at another fast moving startup
• Fast-moving, resourceful, proactive
• Excellent written communication — especially for outbound messaging
• Comfortable with project management and cross-functional coordination
• Analytical mindset; able to work with dashboards and metrics
• Bonus: Experience in restaurants, hospitality, or food tech - or dealing with allergies

Benefits

• Real ownership: You’ll see your work go live, fast
• Team access: Work directly with Foodini founders and ex-leaders from Apple, Google, and Tumblr
• Expenses covered: This is not a full paid internship, however we provide a generous expense account to cover all expenses
• Growth opportunity: Interns have transitioned into part-time and full-time roles
• Hybrid flexibility: Work from home or in our office in Santa Monica
• Impact: Help people feel safer eating out—every single day

Responsibilities

• This is a high-impact role where you will work directly with the CEO, COO, sales team, and dietitians to help drive outreach, improve processes, and ensure our customers launch successfully
• If you or someone close to you has food allergies or dietary needs, that’s a huge plus—you get the mission
• Spearhead Outbound Strategy: Analyze and optimize multi-channel outreach sequences (email, LinkedIn, Google Ads) to drive sales and growth
• Develop Targeted Campaigns: Create differentiated outbound strategies specifically for key segments like restaurant groups, food service groups (stadiums, schools), and hotels
• Drive AI Innovation: Utilize advanced AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, etc.)
• as a force multiplier for copy optimization, personalization, segmentation, and simple design/visual creation
• Oversee Customer Success: Serve as the core coordinator between Dietitians, Sales, and Operations to ensure successful, on-time customer onboarding
• Manage Project Flow: Maintain strict onboarding timelines and track progress using professional project management tools (Notion, HubSpot, or Monday)
• Interpret Key Metrics: Pull and interpret usage and engagement metrics from Amplitude and Google Analytics, assisting with weekly executive reporting
• Build Insightful Dashboards: Design and maintain lightweight insights dashboards to track engagement, retention, and menu interactions

Full Description

Foodini is a VC-backed food tech startup on a mission to make dining safer and easier for people with food allergies and dietary needs. After launching in Australia in 2022 (200k+ users!), we have just launched in the US—starting with Los Angeles.

Our tech matches people to what they can eat across 150+ allergens and diets.

We have an App to help people find suitable venues and menus; we’re liveon restaurant menus like Sweetfin (allergy and dietary menu), and working on multiple large partnerships.

We believe dietary needs should never be an afterthought.

🎯 What’s the role?

We are looking for a fast-moving, AI-native, startup-experienced generalist to support our growth, operations, and customer onboarding.

This is a high-impact role where you will work directly with the CEO, COO, sales team, and dietitians to help drive outreach, improve processes, and ensure our customers launch successfully.

If you or someone close to you has food allergies or dietary needs, that’s a huge plus—you get the mission.

🎬 What will you do?

• Spearhead Outbound Strategy: Analyze and optimize multi-channel outreach sequences (email, LinkedIn, Google Ads) to drive sales and growth.

• Develop Targeted Campaigns: Create differentiated outbound strategies specifically for key segments like restaurant groups, food service groups (stadiums, schools), and hotels.

• Drive AI Innovation: Utilize advanced AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, etc.) as a force multiplier for copy optimization, personalization, segmentation, and simple design/visual creation.

• Oversee Customer Success: Serve as the core coordinator between Dietitians, Sales, and Operations to ensure successful, on-time customer onboarding.

• Manage Project Flow: Maintain strict onboarding timelines and track progress using professional project management tools (Notion, HubSpot, or Monday).

• Interpret Key Metrics: Pull and interpret usage and engagement metrics from Amplitude and Google Analytics, assisting with weekly executive reporting.

• Build Insightful Dashboards: Design and maintain lightweight insights dashboards to track engagement, retention, and menu interactions.

🔍 Is this you?

• You are AI-forward — you use AI every day to accelerate work

• Experience working at another fast moving startup

• Fast-moving, resourceful, proactive

• Excellent written communication — especially for outbound messaging

• Comfortable with project management and cross-functional coordination

• Analytical mindset; able to work with dashboards and metrics

• Bonus: Experience in restaurants, hospitality, or food tech - or dealing with allergies

• Bonus: You’re based in LA and comfortable attending in-person

🚀 What’s in it for you?

• Real ownership: You’ll see your work go live, fast

• Team access: Work directly with Foodini founders and ex-leaders from Apple, Google, and Tumblr

• Expenses covered: This is not a full paid internship, however we provide a generous expense account to cover all expenses

• Growth opportunity: Interns have transitioned into part-time and full-time roles

• Hybrid flexibility: Work from home or in our office in Santa Monica

• Impact: Help people feel safer eating out—every single day