AEO Marketing Intern (Part-Time)

The Company At Nylas, we specialize in making it easier for developers to add email, calendar, and contact management features into their applications. We provide APIs, which streamline the integration of these functionalities, ensuring they are secure and effective. This enables better, safer, and more reliable communication within apps. Supporting over 100,000 developers and collaborating with more than 900 companies globally, Nylas plays a pivotal role in how digital communication tools are built and utilized. Our technology spans various sectors, from healthcare to education, simplifying the complex process of app development related to communications. By reducing the barriers in communication technology, we empower developers to innovate and enhance user interaction across platforms. THE TEAM The Marketing team at Nylas is responsible for helping developers and technical decision-makers discover, evaluate, and adopt the Nylas platform. We combine product marketing, developer advocacy, content, lifecycle marketing, and growth to tell compelling stories, educate our audience, and drive measurable business impact. As AI continues to transform how people discover software, we're investing in Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)—ensuring Nylas is accurately represented and recommended across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and other AI-powered experiences. This internship offers the opportunity to work on one of the fastest-evolving areas of modern marketing while helping shape how developers find and learn about Nylas. ABOUT THE ROLE This internship is designed for students entering their junior or senior year of a Marketing, Communications, Business, English, or related program, as well as recent graduates looking to gain hands-on experience in AI-powered marketing. You'll work alongside experienced Product Marketing and Content professionals while owning projects that have real visibility and measurable business impact. We're looking for a curious, AI-native Marketing Intern to help us improve Nylas' visibility across AI-powered search and answer engines. You'll work alongside Product Marketing and Content to analyze how AI models surface information about Nylas, identify opportunities to improve our presence, and implement content optimizations that drive measurable results. This isn't a traditional marketing internship. You'll combine competitive research, AI experimentation, SEO fundamentals, content strategy, and analytics to help influence how large language models understand and recommend Nylas. If you're excited by emerging AI technologies, enjoy experimenting with new tools, and want to work on real projects with tangible business impact, we'd love to meet you. INTERNSHIP DETAILS - Schedule: Part-time, approximately 20 hours per week - Duration: Approximately 6–12 weeks, with flexibility based on your academic schedule and availability - Location: Remote within the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver Metro Area to support collaboration with our distributed Marketing team. - Working Hours: Flexible, with the expectation that you'll have overlap with the team for meetings and collaboration - Start Date: Flexible based on candidate availability and academic calendar - Compensation: $22 - $25 per hour WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Answer engine visibility - Run competitive queries in Profound to see where Nylas shows up across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini, and where it doesn't - Track Nylas citation share against Cronofy, Recall AI, Unipile, Cal.com http://Cal.com, Aurinko, and Unified - Flag prompts where competitors are being cited but Nylas isn't, and investigate why - Summarize findings and present trends, opportunities, and recommendations to the marketing team. - Page optimization for AI citation - Audit existing pages for the issues that keep LLMs from citing them: self-promotion bias, thin competitor context, outdated pricing, weak FAQ coverage, missing schema markup - Rec…