Strategic Engagements & Events Intern

About the Role

As a Strategic Engagements & Events Intern, you’ll help turn Zipline’s biggest business moments into meaningful experiences for the people who can help move our mission forward. You’ll work alongside the Strategic Engagement & Events team from the earliest stages of an opportunity—researching audiences and markets, helping develop engagement recommendations, and building project plans—all the way through execution and follow-up.

Key Responsibilities

• Research markets, stakeholders, and opportunities to help the team understand who we should engage, why an opportunity matters, and how it connects to Zipline’s broader business priorities.
• Help develop engagement strategies and briefing materials, including audience research, stakeholder profiles, experience concepts, agendas, talking points, and recommendations for internal teams.
• Support planning and execution of strategic engagements such as VIP visits, technology demonstrations, partner events, market launches, community activations, conferences, and company-owned events.
• Build and maintain project plans and workbacks, helping coordinate timelines, owners, guest lists, logistics, communications, production needs, and other dependencies across teams.
• Partner with teams across Zipline including Government Affairs, Communications, Commercial, Operations, Partnerships, Workplace, Design, and others to gather information and keep projects moving.
• Support onsite execution, helping create thoughtful, well-run experiences for guests and solving problems as they arise.
• Measure and document what worked, capturing outcomes, stakeholder follow-up, lessons learned, and reusable resources that make future engagements more effective.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree or have recently graduated and are excited to build experience in areas such as communications, business, marketing, public affairs, events, hospitality, or a related field.
• Excellent communicator, able to turn research or a collection of inputs into clear, concise written materials.
• Highly organized and enjoy keeping track of details, deadlines, and moving pieces while maintaining sight of the larger objective.
• Curious and analytical—enjoy learning about new audiences, markets, and business problems and asking thoughtful questions before jumping to a solution.
• Comfortable taking initiative, working through ambiguity, and switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• Collaborative and excited to work with people across many different functions, backgrounds, and levels of the organization.
• Willing to support in-person engagements and events, which may occasionally require travel or work outside standard business hours.

Masters and PhD students are also eligible.

Additional Information

• This internship is a full-time, in-person position at Zipline's South San Francisco office.
• The internship will run from January to April 2027.
• The hourly rate for this internship is $34 per hour.
• Additional benefits may include relocation support, a housing stipend, overtime pay, and paid sick time, where applicable.
• Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position.