Intern - Corporate Communications (Summer 2025)

Early careers take off with United! We’ve been recognized as both a top employer for Gen Z talent by Handshake and a top 100 internship program by Yellow and WayUp. Interns at United enjoy a wealth of benefits, including a robust mentorship program, exclusive travel privileges, and engaging social events to help foster a vibrant and connected community of early career professionals. Our program is designed to empower you with the skills and connections necessary to launch a successful career. We hope you join us at United, where your contributions will take flight and your career journey will soar.

At United Airlines, the Corporate Communications department develops focused proactive communications that anticipate challenges, lead the narrative, and enable consistent creative messaging in a rapid and dynamic environment. The department is comprised of several functions including Internal Communications, External Communications, Advertising and Social Media, Strategic Planning and Creative Services.

• Develop social media content that appeals to our key demographics of young adults
• Draft media materials including press releases, media alerts, messaging documents, etc.
• Lead and update media databases including media lists and editorial calendars
• Engage media with proactive outreach to pitch United stories
• Reactively respond to select media inquiries on behalf of United
• Develop a mechanism to receive feedback on our internal comms channels from front-line employees including digital surveys, focus groups
• Audit the employee spaces at the airport, bases, etc., what are employees seeing in their everyday related to United messaging, collect and consolidate findings, make recommendations on next steps
• Assist with sorting, inventorying, assessing condition of artifacts.
• Take daily analysis of content performance and provide stats – page views, open rates, click rates, video views, comment sentiment, etc.
• Spend time looking through all of the submissions coming into our Share Your Stories portal and help us identify them
• Pick up some fun, easy experiences to write about
• Scan our social media platforms, specifically beingunited, to search for potential employee stories for internal team to tell.
• Log and archive video footage
• Assist at video shoots

United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the “desired” qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes! We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table!

• Applicant must be a current undergraduate student
• Must be pursuing a degree in PR/Advertising, Communications, or a related field
• Highly organized and self-motivated, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to balance multiple, competing priorities and ensure attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; must be comfortable talking to and collaborating with a variety of collaborators
• Confident performing data analysis to arrive at insights and develop recommendations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Position will be hybrid based in Chicago, IL
• Intern duration is 12 weeks over Summer 2025
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship now and in the future
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualifications
• Reliable, punctual attendance is a crucial function of the position

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodationsunited.com to request accommodation.