Underline starts with our people.

At Underline, we've rapidly built a culture around ownership, trust, community, and innovation. Underline is dedicated to cultivating a growth environment where people feel valued, work with a purpose of mission, are personally rewarded, and are professionally challenged.

Are you ready to join this team and transform American communities?

Underline is a venture backed company, founded in 2019 with a singular mission: to ensure the vibrancy of our nation through building intelligent community infrastructure in a socially equitable manner. We work with American communities to design, finance, and construct open access fiber-optic networks. These networks are critical to secure internet access that’s fast, affordable, and fair. As open access networks, this infrastructure is also the essential foundation for distributed healthcare services, new wireless solutions, and resilient infrastructure including modernized water systems and responsible energy creation. Our first two projects are in Colorado Springs and Fountain, Colorado.

We are looking for a full-time marketing associate to join the Underline El Paso team, focused on educating and converting potential residential customers. This position works with and reports directly to the national Marketing and Communications team to build the Underline brand and execute engagement campaigns and assorted programs. Our approach to marketing and onboarding is grounded in grassroots, campaign-style tactics, and this position plays a critical role in the execution of this strategy.

• You enjoy working as part of a collaborative team
• You are detail-oriented and able to juggle and execute on multiple tasks and projects in sometimes a nebulous and fluid work environment 
• You are diligent about documentation and keeping well-organized file systems 
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit—you have no problem getting your hands dirty and have an intense ability to learn quickly and from others
• You are passionate about the Colorado Springs community and believe in the social, economic, and environmental benefits of bringing connectivity  infrastructure to communities

• Master our brand and project messaging and serve as a public-facing representative of the network
• Help Colorado Springs and Fountain residents and businesses understand the value of the Underline networks by executing a programmatic approach to grassroots marketing
• Ensure that residents wee have engaged with through traditional channels take the final step to becoming an Underline customer
• Distribute information and drive conversion through tablings, door-to-door canvassing, and other in-person events such as neighborhood meetings
• Help to formalize and run our “Champions” program, recruiting and training residents to conduct their own grassroots outreach 
• Build and maintain relationships with local businesses and organizations 
• Assist with event planning and coordination
• Maintain organization of print collateral, track supply inventory, and hand out materials to community partners and project Champions, as needed 
• Research community habits, trends, opportunities, and challenges, and offer recommendations on how to best engage with a variety of residents and businesses within the community

• 2-4 years working in a marketing, community engagement, campaign or other relevant role 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have created consumer-facing marketing content and materials, and have helped run customer-facing campaigns 
• You have experience with planning events
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and handle a variety of responsibilities at once

• You have experience working on civic and/or mission-based projects for communities