Marketplace Growth- Lifecycle Intern

Impact.Com; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 89,000 - 134,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Casual work environment (hybrid)

Training & Development

Coursera

Job summary

impact.com is seeking a motivated marketing intern to support the Marketplace Growth team in a 6-month hybrid program in Cape Town. You will gain hands-on experience with lifecycle campaigns, data analysis, content creation, and cross-functional collaboration in a dynamic tech environment.

Ideal candidates are pursuing a degree in Marketing or related fields, have strong written and verbal communication, and a genuine interest in AI tools and automation.

Qualifications

• Degree or relevant qualification in Marketing, Business, Communications, Linguistics, Public Relations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in Google Workspace; especially Sheets.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute lifecycle campaigns with guidance from the team.
• Analyze data to measure engagement, activation, and retention metrics.
• Draft clear, engaging copy for emails, in-app messages, and notifications.
• Configure automation workflows and assist with AI-powered content drafting.
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, CS, and Data Science to drive initiatives.
• Support optimization of campaigns through A/B testing and reporting.

Skills

Communication skills

Google Workspace

Data analysis

AI tools interest

Organizational skills

Education

Degree in Marketing/Business/Communications/Linguistics/PR

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

Job description

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, and Fanatics visit www.impact.com .

Your Role at impact.com:

We’re seeking a motivated, curious, and detail-oriented intern to play a crucial role in supporting the operational cadences within our Marketplace Growth team. This role will focus on improving customer productivity and offer a unique opportunity to contribute to data analysis, content creation, and process improvements.This role is ideal for someone who is eager to gain hands-on experience in project management, digital marketing, and cross-functional collaboration in a dynamic technology environment.

You'll get hands-on experience setting up, building, and optimizing AI-powered tools and automation workflows This role is ideal for someone who wants to build real skills in lifecycle marketing, automation, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration in a dynamic technology environment. This is a 6-month hybrid internship.

What You'll Do:

• Gain hands-on experience planning and launching real lifecycle campaigns, including emails, in-app messages, and push notifications that actively guide our brands and creators toward success.
• Build and configure personalized, automated communication workflows from the ground up, learning how to use industry tools to move users forward while minimizing manual work.
• Assist with improving our team's processes by identifying repetitive tasks and replacing them with scalable solutions, including leveraging AI tools to draft content, segment audiences, and build reports.
• Dive into real-world metrics by maintaining data flows and analyzing key lifecycle health indicators (like activation and engagement rates) to see the direct impact of your campaigns.
• Help optimize our marketing strategy by running A/B tests on messaging, timing, and channels to continuously improve campaign performance.
• Draft clean, clear, and engaging copy for various touchpoints that drives action and supports our overall marketplace growth.
• Work cross-functionally alongside experts in Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Data Science to bring major lifecycle initiatives to life.

What You Have:

• Degree or relevant qualification in Marketing, Business, Communications, Linguistics, Public Relations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — ability to write clean, clear, engaging copy that prompts action.
• Proficient in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides); especially Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel.
• Genuine interest in the creator economy, brand partnerships, e-commerce, or marketplace ecosystems.
• Strong curiosity about AI tools and automation — eager to go beyond using them to actually setting them up, configuring workflows, and building scalable systems.
• Research-oriented mindset with a knack for digging into data and identifying lifecycle trends.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and enjoys both creative and analytical work.

Benefits/Perks for interns:

• Casual work environment, including hybrid work environment
• Training & Development
  • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Coursera

Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetics, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or non-binary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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