Performance Creative Intern, AI Video Ads

Summary

Wellspoken is an AI app that helps people communicate more clearly in meetings, interviews, and everyday conversations. The Performance Creative Intern will own the creative loop for AI-native video advertising, from customer research and concept development through production, testing, performance analysis, and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Research customers, competitors, reviews, comments, ad libraries, and emerging creative formats to find ideas worth testing
• Turn customer problems into persuasive concepts, hooks, and 15 to 60 second scripts
• Produce finished or testable ads with AI video, images, voice, avatars, product footage, motion, captions, and editing tools
• Design structured experiments that isolate the concept, hook, script, visual execution, actor, product reveal, or call to action
• Read performance signals such as hook rate, retention, click-through rate, conversion, and cost per acquisition, then turn the learning into the next creative batch

Skills

• Currently enrolled as an undergraduate at a college or university in Virginia
• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• Available for at least 20 hours per week on average. We plan flexibly around classes, exams, and other commitments, so some weeks may be more or less
• A portfolio or reel with 2 to 4 strong samples. Include at least one advertisement or AI-generated video and tell us what you personally made
• The writing, judgment, and persistence to take a creative idea from a rough hypothesis to a finished test
• Writing scripts, short-form content, or advertising copy
• Making ads, films, edited videos, motion graphics, or internet projects
• Using AI video, image, voice, avatar, or creative coding tools
• Running a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube channel, startup, app, newsletter, or e-commerce project
• Familiarity with Meta, TikTok, or YouTube advertising and performance metrics

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Currently enrolled as an undergraduate at a college or university in Virginia
• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• Available for at least 20 hours per week on average. We plan flexibly around classes, exams, and other commitments, so some weeks may be more or less
• A portfolio or reel with 2 to 4 strong samples. Include at least one advertisement or AI-generated video and tell us what you personally made
• The writing, judgment, and persistence to take a creative idea from a rough hypothesis to a finished test

Nice to Haves

• Writing scripts, short-form content, or advertising copy
• Making ads, films, edited videos, motion graphics, or internet projects
• Using AI video, image, voice, avatar, or creative coding tools
• Running a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube channel, startup, app, newsletter, or e-commerce project
• Familiarity with Meta, TikTok, or YouTube advertising and performance metrics

Benefits

• Flexible scheduling around classes, exams, and other commitments. Some weeks may be more or less.
• In person at our Richmond office if you're local, remote while you're away at school.
• Flexible start dates year-round, with the opportunity to continue while the fit stays strong.
• Performance advertising and consumer psychology.
• Creative strategy, copywriting, and AI-native video production.
• Experiment design, growth analytics, and mobile app economics.
• How to reason from real customer response and real advertising spend.