Festival Intern - Summer

Overview

Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for Festival Activators to be based across the UK. This is a paid internship. The internship runs from the 11th May 2026 to 15th September 2026. You must be available for the whole duration of the programme. The role will close on Monday 30th March at 10am.

The Festival Activator Programme is one of the most important parts of the Red Bull UK Festival & Events Strategy. You’re the face of the company across the festival circuit; a positive, knowledgeable, and proactive attitude is essential.

Our festival activators are the heart (and muscle) behind everything we do. As a member of the activator team you will be responsible for setting up all of our festivals throughout the summer, whilst also looking after key stakeholders on the festival site and maximising all opportunities available to us. This could entail; training bar staff, sampling industry members, artist liaison, working on our Red Bull activations, setting up fridges & stock across sites and much much more.

Please note this is a sales based role focusing on ensuring Red Bull are always looking great around the site.

You’ll work a series of festivals from week commencing 18th May to week commencing 14th September over 15+ weekends totaling 50+ days. This is a day rate based contract.

You will be in charge of activating the festival marketing and sales plan across the site, constantly in search of additional opportunities and Point of Sale (POS) placements across the site.

There will be some inconsistent hours, long days and a lot of travelling – Festival Activators will have to be able to work hard and play hard! It is an incredibly physical job that will require a lot of heavy lifting, walking and sleeping onsite in tents.

We would prefer our Festival Activators to have a clean drivers license (but it’s not a must) in order to hire cars & vans throughout the summer.

We will supply you with a mobile phone and a Red Bull e-mail address in order for you to be in contact with various POCs onsite. It is vital you are able to commit to working most weekends in the summer from Monday 18th May to Tuesday 14th September. Also to be available for an assessment day on Tuesday 14th April, should your application be successful.

It’s not for the faint hearted! Although you will be exhausted you will have the best summer ever.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, our review process may take some time. If your application is successful at this stage, you will receive a link to complete a video interview. We appreciate your patience while we carefully consider your application.

All the responsibilities we’ll trust you with:

Brand Guru

As a Festival Activator a key part of the role is ensuring Red Bull look the best they can across the whole site. This includes placement of all our Red Bull Tools around the sites, such as fridges across bars and placing menus. You will also be the face of the Brand on site, and therefore spreading the Red Bull love in the process.

You will be leading bar staff training sessions to ensure all the working staff understand our product correctly and giving them all the tools they need to sell Red Bull correctly. In a lot of our festivals we place our bigger Red Bull tools, which we’d call an activation. As the Festival Activator, you will be in charge of overseeing these areas to ensure a quality brand experience for customers.

You will be expected to safeguard and respect the image and reputation of Red Bull across all aspects of the role.

Operations

You will be the main contact on site, joining together the event staff and the Red Bull festival team. This will involve a lot of communication & organisation to ensure everyone is kept up to speed with everything you’ll be doing. Here at Red Bull we are constantly looking for new ways to ‘give wiiings’ to those in the industry that help make these events happen.

So you will be a key part of this, sampling staff around the sites, ensuring the are fully energised for their shifts, and rewarding key workers with incentives too.

Reporting

We do a lot of Festivals & Events throughout the season, and our Festival…