Hi everyone! My name is Jade Bahng, and I’m a senior studying Communications & Data Analytics at USC! This past summer, I was an Influencer Marketing Intern on the Channel Communications team at Airbnb! My team was small but mighty—the first ever global influencer team at Airbnb—and I I got to work on building out our global strategies from a Gen-Z perspective, connecting insights across different niches, platforms, and trends.

I got to touch all points of the influencer campaigns—from developing creative concepts for our partnerships with Karol G, Sabrina Carpenter, Paris Fashion Week, etc., to executing them in partnership with our creator partners, then analyzing performance data to refine the next campaigns!

I was so excited to be part of the Influencer team, but definitely curious about other teams in the org (brand social, celebrity partnerships, executive social). I started off my internship by coffee chatting at least one person from each of the different teams I was curious about, and offered to help out with any projects.

In addition to my influencer Capstone project and day-to-day tasks with my direct manager, I also got to work on some cool projects with mentors on the social campaigns team and the brand marketing team. It was definitely a LOT of work, and I often felt like I was doing 2-3 internships at once, but I learned so much and met so many amazing people!

Technically, the entire company of Airbnb is remote! although I was based in the SF HQ, my team was based all around the US. during the first couple of weeks, it was definitely difficult to feel adjusted to the team professionally and socially when we simply only met during our weekly team syncs. I got used to communicating mainly via Slack, and setting up weekly standing meetings for each person on my team so I could get comfortable/close with everyone.

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I've been receiving this question a handful of times in-person and online via DMs. Because joining a campus ambassador program is a great way for you to additionally foster work experience even outside of a traditional internship.

I’ve done ambassadorships with companies like Intuit and currently Notion!

Here are 3 ways that I’d recommend finding these opportunities

These opportunities are a great way for you to interact with your campus and gain more IRL communication/marketing skills. It also teaches you to build some sort of online presence on social media as well since I’ve personally created both video and written content for both of my positions!

I was also invited to the Mountain View Intuit HQ for the TurboTax student retreat, and it was a blast 🙂 Ambassadorships, fellowships, or (whatever name else there is) are ways for you to gain experience to talk about during interviews, network with professionals in the company, and engage in a team as you’re most likely going to have several students you work with on your campus for the company!