Programmatic Summer Intern
Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising. Bringing together creativity, technology and quality, Kargo empowers advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today – the phone. Through Kargo’s high-end editorial alliance of world-class publisher partners, as well as its proprietary advertising automation tools and award-winning creative studio, brands and agencies have the ability to reach 100% of smartphone users in the United States with memorable, measurable mobile ad experiences. Kargo and Kargo leadership are regularly recognized for the company’s growth and achievements on prestigious lists and by winning prominent awards, including: the Inc. 500 list (2015 and 2016), the Entrepreneur 360 list (2016), the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award (2016), the Crain’s New York Business Fast 50 list (2015 and 2016), the EY Entrepreneur of the Year NY 2016 award and Business Insider’s “hottest pre-IPO ad tech startups” list (2015 and 2016). Kargo employs 250 people in New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Sydney.
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The Role:
The Programmatic Intern will support the Programmatic business in operations, analytics, and sales support. This is a highly cross-functional role will entail interacting with Product, Sales, Operations, and Executive leadership teams. This position requires a versatile team player who is highly analytical, detail-oriented. This person will have the opportunity to learn about the rapidly growing and changing programmatic segment of the media industry as well as how ad tech companies operate in a mobile ecosystem.
The Responsibilities:
- Provide operational support to the Programmatic Operations team through a variety of tasks
- Work across multiple internal teams across multiple regions to help develop new processes, products and strategies and ensure they meet Kargo standards
- Create and manage daily/ weekly reports
- Help create case studies for new/ important findings
- Learn how to analyze and troubleshoot programmatic campaigns
- Use trends and market insight to develop optimization and strategy suggestions, and then be able to execute those suggestions
- Weekly forecasting for programmatic revenue across multiple accounts
- Set up programmatic deals for multiple vertical teams within multiple SSP accounts Monitor and troubleshoot any deal issues once they are live
- Pull data from multiple UIs and put together deep analytical insights
- Serve as a knowledge base for current programmatic industry trends, products, and companies
The Requirements
- Interest in new media / mobile technology and eagerness to learn a rapidly growing section of the media industry
- Ability to work both independently and with others in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and general knowledge of PowerPoint
- Analytically minded and extremely detail-oriented
- Has a passion for learning and intellectual curiosity that will lead them to ask questions beyond their given daily tasks
The Ideal Candidate:
- Must be able to bring own laptop to work
- Must be able to commute to NYC office
- Has strong research, writing, organizational and grammar skills
- Possesses a hunger to learn and be mentored by professionals
- Works well in a fast-paced environment
- Can commit to working at least 35 hours per week