Corporate Social Responsibility Intern - Summer 2026

Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing. We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We're rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences. Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

Red Wing Shoe Company is excited to announce our 2026 Internship Program! The program is designed to offer you meaningful work that will prepare you for your career. You’ll get to see first-hand how our corporate teams develop strategies and practices that support our retail and manufacturing partners, and customers worldwide. Throughout the program, you’ll collaborate with fellow interns and teams across the business, learn from mentors who are invested in your success, and take part in activities that strengthen our culture and support the communities we serve.

This position will offer a hybrid work structure. You will need to live within a commutable distance to Red Wing, MN as there will be various on-site requirements throughout the summer. Standard work hours for this position are Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm, Friday 8am-1pm.

Compensation is $25/hr.

What to Expect:

As a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Intern, you will explore how community giving, volunteering, and donation programs can become a visible, authentic part of the brand experience for consumers - whether they shop in a company-owned store, dealer-owned store, or online. You will audit current touchpoints, benchmark other brands, and research strategies to enhance community engagement initiatives. By understanding what motivates stores and identifying ways to make community impact simple, relevant, and rewarding, you will help strengthen the connection between our brand purpose and consumer experience.

As a CSR Intern, you will:

• Identify where and how Red Wing’s community impact currently appears (stores, trucks, digital, social, packaging, etc.)
• Conduct brief interviews with store associates, marketing, and e-commerce staff to understand current messaging and opportunities
• Research how other purpose-driven brands showcase their social impact to customers
• Create concepts or prototypes for how Red Wing could integrate community impact more visibly into customer experiences
• Produce and present a summary of findings and recommendations to CSR and Marketing/Brand teams

We’re looking for students who meet the following requirements:

• Currently pursuing a degree in marketing, communications, business, public relations, or corporate social responsibility
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Interest in social impact, sustainability, and brand storytelling
• Comfortable conducting research, synthesizing information, and presenting recommendations
• Collaborative and curious

Red Wing Shoes is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
Individuals with disabilities needing assistance in completing an application may contact [email protected] or call 651-388-8211.

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All offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory results of a background check.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)