Affiliate Marketing Intern

Tombras•Knoxville, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This is an 8.5-week paid internship opportunity for an Affiliate Marketing Intern at Tombras in Knoxville, TN. The internship pays $18 per hour and has a maximum of 25 hours per week. It starts on 9/23/26 and ends on 11/20/26. The intern will learn and assist in driving new customer acquisition for national clients, interact with media teams, and gain experience in affiliate marketing platforms, publisher recruitment, campaign tracking, and reporting. The role involves developing affiliate marketing strategies, researching new partners, communicating with affiliates, creating reports, implementing campaigns, collaborating with internal teams, analyzing data to improve KPIs, and supporting existing campaigns.

Requirements

Candidates should have prior work or life experience in a relevant field
Currently enrolled as a Senior in a Bachelor’s program, or a recent graduate with a major in Media, Marketing, Advertising, or similar field (a degree is not required)
Strategic, analytical, and highly detailed mindset that can provide support to the affiliate channel
Basic understanding of the digital media landscape
Strong analytical skills with experience in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets
Ability to build relationships, effectively prioritize, and navigate a complicated digital media landscape
Sense of humor and a desire to have fun

Responsibilities

Learning and assisting in driving new customer acquisition for our national clients
Interacting with media teams across departments to support the affiliate channel's success within the larger agency
Learning how to navigate affiliate marketing platforms, assisting in recruiting publishers and partners, learning how to track campaigns, and developing affiliate marketing reporting capabilities
Assisting with developing affiliate marketing strategies, tactics and reporting
Researching, identifying, and providing write-ups regarding new affiliate partners, including editorial publishers, affiliate networks, incentivized and loyalty programs, and brand-to-brand partnerships
Supporting day-to-day communication with affiliates
Assisting with the creation of tactical affiliate strategy plans and campaign status reports
Assisting with new campaign implementation and execution
Collaborating with internal cross-functional teams like brand, legal, and digital media teams for campaign approvals and coordination, as well as client partners
Analyzing data and metrics regularly to identify key opportunities to improve individual and overall affiliate KPI performance, increase scale, and enhance efficiency of marketing spend
Supporting the development of tests and learnings to improve performance and marketing spend efficiencies based on data and analytical insights
Providing account support to existing campaigns, including but not limited to pixel placements, suppression file administration, creative and technical updates