About this role
ABOUT KENDO
Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. A play on the words “can do”, Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.
The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Eau de Parfum, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen, Lip Lab.
SUMMER 2026 INTERNSHIP
Ready to kickstart your career in beauty? Join Kendo Brands paid 10-week Summer Internship. Dive into a real project, become part of a dynamic team and explore career paths in a top beauty brand incubator. You’ll get face time with senior leadership, networking opportunities, and receive regular feedback to help you grow. You will also get an opportunity to learn more about LVMH and Kendo’s role in the luxury world. Earn $24/hour while gaining invaluable experience.
Applications will be open from February 1 to February 15. We welcome students from all backgrounds including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, military status, and people with disabilities. Let your unique talents shine with us.
Qualified Candidates must be rising juniors, seniors, or 2026 graduates of an accredited college or university within the past 12 months. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Candidates must be able to work either June 2nd to August 6th or June 23rd to August 27th. For Summer 2026, our program will be hybrid from our downtown San Francisco office. Interns will come into the San Francisco office weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and work from home every Monday and Friday.
SUMMARY
The Affiliate Social Commerce intern will be fully integrated into the day-to-day activities of the team. In addition, you will be responsible for leading an individual project that will be presented to Senior Leadership at the end of the summer.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support all day-to-day affiliate marketing strategies & campaigns across platforms.
- Help manage communications and relationships with influencers, creators, and affiliates
- Support and brief creative needs for campaigns, ad formats, and placements to creative teams and help ideate creative ideas for each campaign, ensuring clear outlines of requirements, best practices, and a platform-led mindset to drive strong brand visibility & user experience.
- Support project updates & timelines; support updating affiliate marketing activation plans in relevant shared calendars.
- Support auditing of publisher sites for placement launches & ongoing accuracy of brand content and merchant updates within the affiliate channel.
- Share promotion, launch, and site update information with agency & relevant partners.
- Support affiliate channel and campaign reporting, pulling data from platforms, Google Analytics, etc. and compiling for review or needs.
- Source influencers, creators, and affiliates for ad hoc influencer and affiliate campaigns
- Assist in managing influencer and affiliate channel product inventory, sampling, and shipments
- Collect insights for the Beauty category including consumer, market, competitor, content and influencer data to influence growth strategies for the category
- Ad hoc support for special projects, reports, etc.
- Keep pulse on competitors and industry insights.
REQUIREMENTS
- Rising junior, senior or 2026 graduate in Marketing, communications, merchandising, business
- Full competency of Microsoft Office Suite - specifically Excel and PowerPoint
- Passion for skincare and cosmetics
- Good communicator/Listener
- Self-starter and out-of-box thinker
- Project and time management
- Detail oriented
- Data driven
- Creative mindset
- Team player
- Positive Attitude