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# Marketing + Creator Management Intern at empathic.so

- **Company:** empathic.so
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/empathic/am9icG9zdDoiATW5z_3xIWdI9oARnWr0

## Job description

We’re hiring a Marketing + Creator Management Intern at Empathic.

You’ll work directly with the founder, a Thiel Fellow and third-time founder with a previous exit, and own and iterate on short form content.

Short form marketing content:

- Find new ideas, write scripts and pull clips
- Brief editors, review drafts and post content
- Track what works and make more of it

Our creator program:

- Recruit, interview and onboard creators
- Manage contracts, trials, briefs, group chats and analytics
- Give fast, direct feedback and run weekly creator calls
- Keep creators accountable and quickly replace people who aren’t working out

We’re looking for someone who is very online, highly organized, good with people and has strong creative taste. You should attend or have recently graduated from a highly selective university. Experience with TikTok, Reels, UGC or creator management is a major plus. Some evidence of viral sense is necessary.

Empathic is building an AI friend that connects with users through apps like iMessage and FaceTime.

The paid internship is 10-12 weeks, full time, fully in person in downtown San Francisco. Start date is flexible, ideally within the next month.

## About empathic.so

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Empathic is building an AI-native iMessage companion that enables real-time, human-like video conversations with AI, native in FaceTime.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $2.7M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely 2024–2025 based on funding and job posting date)
- **Founders**: Michael Lee (Thiel Fellow, YC alum, third-time founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer AI / Conversational AI
- **Target customers**: B2C – individuals seeking a digital companion with real-time voice and video interaction
- **Mission/purpose**: Steward the transition of humanity forming social relationships with digital intelligence, creating a friend who is always there for any human on earth.

## Products & Services
- **[Empathic AI Companion]**: A real-time, native FaceTime-integrated AI that can see, hear, and converse with users. The product focuses on presence and connection through realistic, low-latency video generation. Type: Consumer AI application (SaaS-like subscription? Not specified but likely paid).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $30M (post-money, per job posting)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $2.7M (led by BoxGroup)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: BoxGroup (lead), Thiel Capital (talent source mentioned on LinkedIn)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 130 paying customers (as of job posting date, ~mid-2025)
  - 80%+ day-one retention, 70%+ week-two retention
  - High retention indicates strong product-market fit in early stage

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-time, native FaceTime integration** – not a separate app, leverages Apple’s ecosystem
- **Low-latency video generation** – focuses on expressive, real-time interaction rather than text-based chatbots
- **Founder pedigree** – Thiel Fellow, YC alum, third-time founder with experience building hard tech
- **Long-term vision** – company states a decades-long time horizon, aiming to define a new medium for AI conversations

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Improving memory systems, latency, and information compression; building recommendation and content delivery systems; shipping real-time voice and AI interaction experiences.
- **Direction**: Scaling the engineering team (hiring founding engineer), expanding the product beyond early adopters, and refining the underlying AI models for video generation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-intensity, in-person startup environment in San Francisco (9-to-6 minimum). Emphasis on exceptional builders who can own full stack, from backend to ML to frontend.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: On-site only (San Francisco).
- **Perks & engineering culture**:
  - Founding engineer role with 1%–6% equity
  - Compensation $175k–$250k (per job posting)
  - Opportunity to set engineering standards and recruit future hires
  - Work on cutting-edge real-time systems, low-latency video models, and distributed systems
  - “Hard company” with a mission-driven, long-term outlook

## Sources
1. [empathic.so](https://www.empathic.so/)
2. [empathic.so/ethos](https://www.empathic.so/ethos)
3. [linkedin.com/company/empathichq](https://linkedin.com/company/empathichq)
4. [wearedevelopers.com](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/492233-founding-engineer-empathic)
5. [weloveaijobs.com](https://weloveaijobs.com/companies/empathic)

## Other roles at empathic.so

- [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-empathic-so-san-francisco-j71jzfqrw7rb) — San Francisco, CA