Holiday Marketing Intern (Fall 2026) at Zipline · South…

ABOUT ZIPLINE Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.  Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations. Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe. We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. ABOUT THE MARKETING TEAM The Marketing team helps people discover, try, and continue using Zipline. We work across lifecycle, merchandising, and growth to create campaigns and customer experiences that support awareness, conversion, retention, and repeat usage.Our team partners closely with Product, Creative, Commercial, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations to bring campaigns and experiments to life. This is a fast-moving, cross-functional team where creativity, customer empathy, and analytical thinking come together to support Zipline’s growth. THE ROLE We’re looking for a Marketing Intern who wants to see consumer marketing in action during one of the busiest and most exciting moments of the year: the holiday season! In this role, you’ll support a range of marketing projects across lifecycle, merchandising, and growth, helping the team plan, coordinate, document, and execute seasonal campaigns and launches. Depending on team priorities, this may include working in marketing tools, supporting campaign setup, drafting copy, organizing launch materials, building playbooks, or helping test new ways to create and scale marketing content. You’ll learn how a fast-moving marketing team brings ideas to life across channels while balancing customer needs, business goals, and operational complexity. Your work will help the team move faster and create better customer experiences during a critical period for Zipline. What You'll Do • Support the planning and execution of Zipline’s holiday marketing and merchandising moments across lifecycle, app, and growth channels. • Help coordinate campaign work by organizing timelines, tracking next steps, gathering inputs, and keeping launch materials up to date. • Support marketing operations needs, including coordinating with vendors, tracking deliverables, organizing assets, and helping ensure key materials are ready on time. • Assist with building and documenting repeatable playbooks for seasonal campaigns, holiday launches, and marketing workflows. • Support campaign setup and QA in marketing tools, which may include CMS, app merchandising, email, push, or in-app messaging platforms. • Contribute to customer-facing marketing materials by drafting copy, generating creative ideas, testing AI-assisted content workflows, or helping prepare campaign briefs. • Help the team organize performance learnings so future seasonal moments can be planned and improved more efficiently. • Learn how a cross-functional marketing team brings high-priority campaigns to life across Product, Creative, Analytics, Engineering, Commercial, and Operations. WHAT YOU'LL BRING • Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree, ideally in marketing, communications, business, consumer products, or a related field. Candidates must have completed at least the second year of their undergraduate studies. • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to write clearly, organize information, and adapt tone for different audiences. • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with comfort managing multiple moving pieces, deadlines, and project inputs. • Curiosity about how consumer marketing works across channels like email, push, in-app, paid, and merchandising. • Comfort learning new tools and systems, including content management systems, campaign platforms, spreadsheets, or AI-assisted workflows. • A proactive, collaborative approach and ability to communicate clearly with teammates across Marketing, Creative, Product, Analytics, Engineering, Commercial, and Operations. • Based in or able to work onsite in South San Francisco for the duration of the internship. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW This internship is a full-time position, in-person at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Fall 2026 interns from September to December. Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position. The hourly rate for this internship is $34 per hour. Additional benefits may include relocation support, a housing stipend, overtime pay, paid sick time, and other benefits, where applicable and subject to local requirements. Candidates are limited to three (3) applications within a 30-day period. Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities. Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.