True Gum is looking for a creative and proactive communication and SoMe intern.

Hi, we’re True Gum. We produce plastic-free and vegan chewing gum, alongside mints and cough drops. We are revolutionizing the chewing gum industry, offering the world’s most sustainable chewing gum, fighting plastic waste and climate change. The list of communication and SoMe related tasks keeps growing, so now we’re looking to strengthen our team with a new colleague. If you want to get hands-on experience within marketing/communications and enjoy building sustainable lifestyle brands, then keep reading.

The POSITION

Are you a creative storyteller with a knack for social media? As a communication and SoMe intern, you will play an important part in our marketing team. You will be key responsible for our social media channels and helping our Online Brand Manager and Graphic Designer with several important marketing/communication tasks working with content creation, influencer marketing, smaller campaigns and more. This is a great opportunity to work across several exciting areas and really build tangible skills within marketing and communications. The primary tasks at hand for this position are:

• Ideating, planning and content creation for our social media channels (IG, FB, LinkedIn)

• Supporting with influencer campaigns

• Assisting with maintenance of our website

• Customer service support

• Support for smaller/larger multi-channel marketing campaigns

• Help ideate around the further development of our overall communication strategy

• Ad hoc marketing/communications assignments

Your profile

You’re perhaps a student with a passion for communication and social media. Or perhaps you’re in between jobs or just on the hunt for your next adventure. The ideal candidate:

• Studies or has a natural flair for working with marketing and/or communications

• Speaks English fluently (It’s not a requirement that you speak Danish)

• Has great communication skills and enjoys writing catchy and engaging copy

• Has a natural flair for working within social media and enjoys connecting with new people

• Is creative and has an interest for graphic design

• Has experience with working in Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator

• Works proactively, structured, with attention to detail and is not afraid to voice ideas

• Is hopefully passionate about sustainability and climate change  

Join our chewing gum revolution

Now’s your chance to become part of a company on a mission. We are 35 social, outgoing and hardworking people working from our chewing gum factory just outside Copenhagen – and we would love to bring you along for a wild ride. Position: unpaid full-time or part-time internship, 3-6 months. Location: Glostrup, Copenhagen. Start date: as soon as possible. Interviews are conducted ongoing, so get in touch as soon as possible with CV, short motivation, and optionally portfolio. Potential questions should be directed to Graphic Designer Julie Bendixen.

About True Gum

True Gum is a Danish scaleup who produce a plastic-fee chewing gum, made using ingredients that are entirely derived from plants and trees. It’s therefore completely free from plastics and totally biodegradable, unlike regular gum. From our small factory just outside Copenhagen, the True Gums are today hand-made by a small team of passionate chewing gum aficionados, who work tirelessly to produce the world’s most sustainable gum. Read more at: truegum.com or connect with True Gum through Instagram.