Intern, Digital Marketing

Internship Program Overview:

The San Francisco 49ers offer full-time, paid internships for individuals interested in gaining hands-on experience in professional sports while exploring careers within the National Football League. Our program is designed to allows participants to contribute directly to the organization’s success while applying the knowledge learned in the classroom.

Interns are embedded within a specific department while also having opportunities to explore the broader organization through group networking events, training sessions, and one-on-one meetings with leaders across the club. Each intern is supported by a mentor and team and contributes to a project that builds skills and professional confidence.

At the 49ers, we value collaboration, adaptability, integrity, and strong communication. We’re committed to creating a supportive environment where interns can learn, share ideas, and grow. Our goal is to deliver a positive, impactful experience that inspires “fans for life” and prepares interns for future success in sports and beyond.

General Internship details and expectations:

• Our interns are paid $19.00 per hour and are expected to work 30-40 hours or more per week during the internship period. 
• Interns are expected to commit to the full term of the internship and be mostly onsite (no remote internships are available), which runs from mid-July through the end of February. 
• Interns are expected to work flexible hours that include nights, holidays, and weekends. 
• Interns to provide their own housing and transportation

Important dates: 

• Monday, January 5, 2026 - Applications close 
• Monday, July 6, 2026 - First day of the internship program
• Friday, February 26, 2027 - Last day of the internship program

The Digital Marketing Intern will work directly with the Senior Manager, Digital Marketing. This intern will be involved in helping with day-to-day maintenance of the 49ers mobile app, email marketing service provider and SMS content management system, as well as building audiences and messaging based on key attributes and contributing to brand strategy. In addition, this person will gain an understanding of the 49ers digital programs, workflows, reporting, documentation and administration.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Assists in email building, email automation and batch sends.
• Supports audience selection by reviewing user activity and identified interests.
• Creates link tracking and attribution for digital assets, form building and management, and internal notification setup. 
• Compiles email performance metrics and assists with performance summaries.
• Collaborates with Sales and Business Strategy and Analytics teams to supportmarketing technologies (i.e. systems management, API integrations and automations).
• Helps to build user engagement and retention strategies for official 49ers iOS and Android Mobile apps and 49ers SMS channel.
• Supports ticket integration ofsingle game, season, group and suite sales along with additional necessary ticketed events.
• Builds out mobile app and SMS experiences, including onboarding and messaging.
• Utilizes the following tools: Marketo email service provider, mobile app CMS platform, SMS platform, Rover, Wrike, Formstack.
• Other duties as assigned.

Abilities & Skills:

• Punctuality and accountability are essential for all aspects of intern’s role.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to multi-task are required.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Detail-oriented self-starter with proven ability to learn new skills.

Education and Experience:

• Relevant work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with a CMS
• Experience with Photoshop or similar software
• Experience in copywriting

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

The employee will be sitting in a typical office environment the majority of the time and may be exposed to outdoor weather conditions.

The employee is frequently required to sit, use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk and lift and/or move up to 45 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

This position requires the employee to work extended hours, weekends and/or holidays.

Travel:

0% of local travel time expected for this position.