Sponsorship Intern

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You'll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success-take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

Summer Internship Program

Our 10-week program is designed to increase future employment potential for prospects while providing a valuable resource to the business. This Summer Internship will appeal to proactive and self-motivated 4th year students with a genuine desire to learn about the energy business and industry. During the internship, candidates will work on real projects and have real responsibilities. We aim to help students build strengths, gain skills that can be transferred to any workplace, and stand out from the crowd.

Ideal Candidate

This Intern role will support the sponsorship strategy team for Reliant energy. We are looking for self-driven, high-caliber, creative, sportssavvy Content Creator Intern to help bring our sponsorships to life across social, digital, and invenue channels. You'll concept, capture, and edit shortform content from live activations, support influencer collaborations, and package recaps that showcase community impact and brand lift.

This 10 week internship will provide a student exposure to sponsorship, brand strategy, community brand marketing, advertising, digital and web, data and marketing analytics and the full sponsorship content lifecycle-from runofshow planning to realtime capture to postevent reporting

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Create shortform video & photo content (Reels/TikTok/Stories) onsite and sameday for key sponsorship moments-capturing crowd energy, player/mascot interactions, and behindthescenes snippets that partners love to repost
• Support hero events like the Reliant Home Run Derby with the Dallas Cowboys by producing "highlight sizzles," quickturn social cuts, and postevent recaps emphasizing funds raised and community impact.
• Cover college athletics content (e.g., Texas Tech): gameday activations, VIP fan moments, sweepstakes winners, and "dayinthelife" pieces aligned to leadgen and nurture journeys.
• Assist with influencer content at select events (FWSSR, market activations): preevent briefs, dayof capture, and asset delivery; help track performance vs. benchmarks.
• Write and adapt copy (hooks, captions, lowerthirds) that fits platform bestpractices and partner guidelines; help storyboard quick concepts for reels, LED/ribbon moments, and invenue prompts.
• Package recaps & metrics (engagement, reach, saves, shares) with crisp visuals for internal and partner readouts; pull highlights from event metrics you'll receive (e.g., impressions/engagements from Cowboys/creator posts
• Guardrails & approvals: learn our legal/brand review flow and ensure content aligns with rules, usage rights, and disclosures (you'll see how sponsorship emails and sweepstakes language are reviewed)
• Bring "Smarter Together" to life by showing the allinone Reliant O Vivint experience in simple, human ways (household tips, energyinsights snippets, creator POVs)

• Perform other duties as assigned.

NRG Interns need to be able to demonstrate the following behaviors:

• Build and maintain effective working relationships; Communicate/collaborate effectively

• Have a positive impact through self-awareness and social skills
• Deliver excellent customer service
• Take initiative and set high standards for self
• Look at the bigger picture and recognize the impact of your actions
• Learn from experience to perform in new or changing situations
• Focus energy on what will make a difference and deliver exceptional results
• Learn about our business and proactively make recommendations

Working Conditions:

• Must be based in the Houston area, with hybrid work in the Houston office
• Open office environment (hybrid in office Mon, Tues, Wednesday, Thurs and other days as needed)
• Must be willing to work evenings and weekends to support on-site activity at events as needed. (~20%).
• Must be able to lift minimum 40 lbs.

Minimum Requirements:

• Currently pursuing a degree in marketing, communications, journalism, sports media, or related field.
• Portfolio or links showing shortform video (shooting + editing) and social storytelling.

• Must be going into your senior year or graduating in 2026 with a 3.0 GPA or higher
• Expected to take initiative and work well in a fast-pace environment with multiple departments, projects, and deadlines.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Working knowledge of mobilefirst editing (e.g., CapCut, VN) and/or desktop tools (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Canva).
• Comfortable working onsite at events (evenings/weekends as needed) and collaborating with partners/ambassadors.
• Strong writing skills and attention to detail, including brand voice and required disclosures.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.