Great Clips, Inc. is seeking a summer intern to support external and internal 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, our Vision is: Working together to build the most profitable salons by delivering the most powerful and enduring brand. Part of this vision is the support and maintenance of the internal resource hub and intranet. The Communications Intern will work with teams across the company to support franchisee communications and support the review and refresh of content on the intranet site. 

Your Mission

The Communications Intern is charged with executing a project plan in alignment with the Great Clips vision, goals, and culture. On your journey, you will have the opportunity to:

• Research and share learnings on best practices around digital asset management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand what their needs are from the intranet site as a resource hub.
• Assist with the development of a project plan to review, revise, and refresh content across the intranet site.
• Present and gain buy-in on your project plan to key stakeholders.
• Execute your project plan to deliver easy-to-find resources that align with best practices in user experience.
• Support the creation of user groups within the platform.
• 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: 

• At least 2 years of college or university experience.
• Strong interpersonal communications skills.
• Ability to work independently, and as part of a team, to manage and engage resources as required.
• GREAT written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective project management skills, including time-management, attention to detail, and problem-solving.
• Excellent computer skills including MS Word and Microsoft Outlook.

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

• Treat others the way you would like to be treated. Be humble, act honorably, and express gratitude. Respect and value everyone’s role in our company’s success.

We Exceed Expectations

• Innovate; be curious about what’s possible. Be adaptable and eager to respond to challenges. Collaborate and work together to achieve our goals. Strive for greatness and inspire others by your example. Be proactive. Seek continuous improvement.

We Focus on Execution

• Make decisions with the belief it can be executed in 6,000 salons. Focus on impact of key brand measures. Prioritize on ability to execute quickly.

We Keep it Simple

• Set clear expectations. Make things easy to understand and execute. Stay focused on what’s most important.

We Listen and Earn Trust

• Be respectfully honest; react thoughtfully. Respond quickly – 24 hours or less, and remember that personal contact is always best. Be transparent through open communication and candid conversation. Be willing to admit mistakes and fix them. Listen generously: Seek to understand other’s perspectives. Act with integrity. Always. Even when no one will know.

We Make it Fun

• Smile! Find opportunities to laugh. Celebrate accomplishments and recognize the contributions of others. Approach people and situations with a positive attitude. Build a sense of community where everyone enjoys coming to work every day.

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.