Marketing, Creative & eCommerce Intern Opportunities

SharkNinja•Needham, MA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions. We are building an AI-native culture and are looking for early career talent to join our Early Edge Experience program. This program is designed to provide valuable exposure to the industry and a fast-paced professional environment, with opportunities to dive into meaningful projects, benefit from professional development, community events, and connections. Interns will work on real campaigns and launches alongside experienced professionals, contributing to various aspects of marketing, creative, communications, and eCommerce. The program culminates in an opportunity to showcase contributions and learnings to SharkNinja leaders. This is a single application for marketing, creative, communications, and eCommerce early talent roles across various teams including Brand Marketing, Integrated Communications, Social and Content, Creative and Studio, and eCommerce and Marketplace functions.

Requirements

Current student in a related bachelor's or master’s or PhD program or has graduated from such a program within the past year — Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations, Digital Media, Graphic or Visual Design, Business, Analytics, or similar.
Must be able to work a full-time, 40-hour-per-week onsite-hybrid schedule; specific location and number of onsite days vary by team and term.
Excellent written and verbal communication, and the instinct to tailor a message to its audience.
A consumer-first perspective and real curiosity about why people buy what they buy.
Comfortable with data — you can read a report, spot the trend, and turn it into a recommendation.
Strong attention to detail and organization across multiple projects and shifting deadlines.
Creative and proactive: you bring ideas, and you follow them through to execution.
Collaborative and positive in brainstorms, reviews, and cross-functional work.
Discretion and professionalism with unreleased product and campaign information.
Proficient in Microsoft 365, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Prior internship, agency, campus media, student leadership, or personal project experience is a strong asset.

Nice To Haves

Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro.
Short-form video editing, including CapCut and in-app TikTok and Instagram editing tools.
Canva for social, digital, and printed assets.
Working knowledge of social media platforms, media relations, and the influencer landscape.
Analytics tools: Google Analytics or GA360, platform insights, and social listening or analytics tools.
Advanced Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP) and comfort with dashboards and reporting systems.
Familiarity with CMS and CRM platforms, email marketing, or marketplace platforms such as Amazon.
Project management and asset management tools: Asana, Monday.com, Airtable, Workfront, Box, or SharePoint.
Coursework in market research, consumer insights, or marketing analytics.
Language fluency, particularly Spanish or Portuguese, to support LATAM and international markets.
Portfolio, reel, or writing samples that show your process and your range (for design, studio, content, or copywriting roles).

Responsibilities

Contribute to real campaigns and product launches across Shark and Ninja, from brief to in-market.
Turn consumer and performance insights into creative, content, and commercial decisions.
Build assets people actually see — social content, campaign creative, packaging copy, retailer pages, email, and video.
Track how campaigns perform across earned, owned, and paid channels, and summarize what worked and what didn’t.
Collaborate with brand, creative, social, digital, sales, and external agency partners.
Present your ideas and your results to cross-functional partners and marketing leaders.
Learn how a global consumer brand actually operates — process, approvals, systems, and speed.
Own a meaningful project end to end and present your contributions to SharkNinja leaders.
Coordinate consumer research for actionable insights that feed product development and marketing strategy.
Review marketing collateral across retailer, web, and social platforms for brand alignment, and creating or updating packaging, instruction manuals, and quick start guides.
Analyze the competitive landscape, SKU assortments, and white space opportunities, and maintaining category databases such as NPD.
Contribute to strategic marketing and PR briefs for product launches and full-funnel campaigns across social media, retail, digital, and earned media.
Support brand activations — product gifting, event planning, influencer moments, launch milestones — and preparing press kits and coordinating sample shipments.
Monitor earned, owned, and paid campaign performance and summarizing results in reports.
Manage product samples for photoshoots, PR initiatives, and media events, and supporting day-to-day management of external agencies.
Draft and edit copy for campaigns, packaging, retail, and internal and external communications.
Support LATAM go-to-market — localized assortment and pricing strategy, sell-in decks for new product development (NPD) launches, and partnering with regional sales teams across Mexico and Brazil.
Develop and execute short-form video for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and editing platform-native content in CapCut, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or After Effects.
Contribute creative concepts aligned to brand objectives and emerging social trends, and capturing behind-the-scenes, product-focused, and lifestyle assets.
Build and maintain editorial calendars, and supporting global social operations — publishing workflows, channel governance, and asset routing across markets.
Monitor and respond to community feedback, inquiries, and discussions in the brand voice across social media, forums, and online groups.
Cultivate relationships with community members, influencers, and brand advocates, and sourcing user-generated content, testimonials, and case studies.
Create and curate engaging community content — posts, polls, contests, and events.
Apply performance insights on engagement, reach, sentiment, and brand impact to optimize content.
Create visual assets for digital and print — social media graphics, marketing materials, advertisements, and presentations — in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Craft full-size packaging mockups from die lines and digital prints, and preparing mood boards, mounted comps, and print-ready production files.
Coordinate creative timelines, asset organization, version control, and delivery across digital, packaging, and retail channels using tools such as Workfront, Asana, Monday, Airtable, Box, or SharePoint.
Support photoshoot, video, and post-production coordination, and routing feedback and approvals through creative review.
Translate creative briefs into concepts that hold to brand guidelines, file naming conventions, and studio server systems.
Build and update web pages and site journeys for promotional campaigns, and ensuring accuracy of creative assets, linking, and promotional and product setup.
Create and implement strategic content calendars for the Shark and Ninja D2C business — new product launch content, promotional emails, tips and tricks, and seasonal moments.
Monitor website and email KPIs in tools such as GA360 and CMS and CRM platforms, and identifying optimizations and risks.
Manage day-to-day promotional tooling — calendar updates, promo vetting, and confirmation tracking — and improving or automating those processes.
Analyze internal and competitive pricing across marketplace platforms such as Amazon and Walmart, and supporting assortment and pricing decisions.
Audit the digital shelf — content accuracy, imagery, ratings and reviews, and search presence — across retailer and marketplace listings.
Monitor key product inventory and flagging stock risks and opportunities.
Support paid and performance media execution, reporting, and optimization across digital channels.