Great Clips, Inc. is seeking a summer intern to support external communications efforts for the Great Clips brand for the summer of 2025. Applicants can be college students or recent college graduates seeking hands-on experience.

At Great Clips, we work together to build the most profitable salons by delivering the most powerful and enduring brand. The External Communications Intern will have the opportunity to support a wide variety of brand-building initiatives across the communications team. This position offers hands-on experience to assist with customer service, public relations and social media activities.

Your Mission

The External Communications Intern will be charged with executing a project plan in alignment with the Great Clips vision, goals, and culture in addition to supporting ongoing communications activities for the brand.  On your journey, you will have the opportunity to:

• Inform social media strategy by actively researching trends, monitoring for engagement opportunities and sharing ideas for content creation.
• Assist with the creation of social media content.
• Participate in the coordination of media relations efforts, including drafting materials, managing media lists, supporting media outreach and reporting.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Marketing & Communications department to support local partnership extensions.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Ability to listen, earn trust, and accept direct feedback from franchisees while building strong, positive relationships.

Your Expertise

To land this internship you will need to show the ability to, and possess the following:

Your Work Environment

This is a hybrid work position requiring a combination of in-office workdays and the option to work from home on the remaining days. Working remotely will require reliable, secure internet.

Living the Values

We Are Kind

We Exceed Expectations

We Focus on Execution

We Keep it Simple

We Listen and Earn Trust

We Make it Fun

What We Offer

During your internship, we will offer you:

• A focus on your development. We want to know what your dreams and aspirations are and hope to find ways of Great Clips helping you along in your journey. Your personalized development plan will create a path for your growth and promotion potential.
• A GREAT culture. One the most frequent compliments you will hear about Great Clips from employees, franchisees and business partners alike is that Great Clips has a GREAT culture. Our belief is that we are strongest together and therefore find it important to have an inclusive, diverse work culture. Though we embrace our differences, we all share in our 6 core values; we are kind, we listen and earn trust, we keep it simple, we focus on execution, we exceed expectations, and we make it fun.
• A spirit of ideas and innovation. Here at Great Clips, we have a competitive lead within our industry. Though we hold a strong position, we never stop pushing ourselves forward and continue to look for new ways of delivering a powerful and enduring brand.

About Great Clips

With more than 4,400 franchised salons throughout the United States and Canada, Great Clips is the world’s largest haircutting salon brand. Our salon owners and corporate staff are dedicated to our salon communities with a focus on philanthropic and volunteer activities. Great Clips, Inc. employees are passionate about what we do and our technology team geeks out in finding ways to use technology to make what we do even better.

Great Clips Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Great Clips Inc. participates in the US E-Verify program. With all new hires, we provide the Social Security Administration and, if applicable, the US Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.   This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.a