Brand and Marketing Intern — Fall 2026
Ray is looking for a Real Estate Brand and Marketing Intern to assist the production team (Project Manager, Brand and Social Media Manager, and Programming and Partnerships Director) in executing projects across the portfolio.
This internship offers valuable hands-on experience in multi-family real estate development, cultural programming, digital marketing, social media, and project management. If you're detail-oriented, eager to learn, and passionate about the physical and cultural landscape, we'd love to hear from you.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape a rapidly expanding, design-forward company with a nearly $1 billion portfolio at the forefront of branded residential real estate development.
About Ray
Ray is a residential development company focused on developing space that makes art and culture accessible through daily experiences.
Ray's design approach is aesthetically dynamic, historically informed, and influenced by cultural precedents and practicality, with an in-house interior design team that has deep experience in multi-family and hospitality design and processes.
Founder Dasha Zhukova Niarchos was inspired to apply her work within cultural institutions and public art spaces into a new category of the built environment. Dasha established the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008, seeking to create a space devoted to the discovery and exploration of global art and culture. Her experience at the museum, particularly observing how people interacted with both the art and architecture, was the catalyst for launching Ray.
Learn more at rayisaplace.com.
Responsibilities
Brand Coordination
- Support general and administrative work across marketing, development, project management, and research, including daily digital filing and keeping our systems organized
- Help track project timelines, budgets, and key milestones
- Sit in on meetings with project partners and vendors; build agendas, take notes, and circulate follow-ups
- Coordinate vendor relationships across Ray departments, including invoices and contracts
Marketing
- Help produce marketing assets (event flyers, temporary signage, brochures, business cards, invitations, leasing collateral), including gathering feedback from the right teams and stakeholders to get collateral across the finish line
- Help draft event listings and email marketing campaigns
- Support photoshoot production and day-of logistics
- Help with day-to-day content uploads and updates to project websites in Sanity (our CMS)
Social Media
- Support content creation with occasional trips to our NYC and Philly properties to capture footage first-hand
- Research specific objects, figures, and design movements to inform scripts for Instagram Reels
Programming & Partnerships
- Work alongside the Programming and Partnerships Director and Community Managers at each Ray property to coordinate art-focused resident events
- Help operate a rotating exhibition space at Ray Philly and Ray Phoenix, including ensuring sponsor deliverables are completed and results reported, and that public programming supporting each exhibition is planned, promoted, and executed
- Help build decks for brand partnership pitches and produce the marketing collateral that supports them: Mailchimp email blasts, Figma and Canva flyers, Eventbrite events, Sanity updates, Instagram flyers, etc.
- Sit in on intro calls with new partners and take notes
- Help make sure artist agreements, partnership contracts, COIs, vendor forms, W9s, and other paperwork get signed and filed (with oversight from the Programming and Partnerships Director)
Who You Are
- Previous internship or related work experience preferred
- Currently pursuing a degree in Marketing, Communications, Real Estate, Graphic Design, or a related field
- Reliable transportation to our office in NYC
- Experience liaising with and managing vendor teams and other collaborators
- Familiarity with marketing/advertising and social media (helpful but not required)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to join weekly standing meetings on Zoom and/or in person
- Technical skills: Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator), Figma, Canva, and/or other design tools (preferred but not required), and familiarity with Mailchimp (preferred but not required)
- Keeps up with cultural conversation around design, architecture, art, and real estate
- Extremely detail-oriented, with the ability to manage granular tasks and big-picture projects simultaneously
- Ability to track assignments without oversight, meet deadlines, and clearly communicate requests for deadline extensions in advance as needed
Location
Optional hybrid or in-office, within reasonable distance to travel to properties in NYC/PHL periodically (expenses for travel to properties reimbursed by the company; travel to office not eligible for reimbursement).
Compensation
$23/hour
