Smartly is excited to kick off applications for our 2026 Summer Internship Program!
Are you looking to grow your career in Marketing? Does working with some of the world’s leading brands excite you? Smartly is excited to announce our 10-week internship program for Summer 2026! Join our team of over 800 Smartlies and learn from some of the best and brightest in the digital advertising industry.
In this amazing hybrid CHI opportunity, you will be able to bring your passion and entrepreneurial spirit to our rapidly-growing company. As an active member of our Growth Marketing team, you’ll be reporting into the VP of Growth Marketing and partnering closely with leaders in Website and Marketing Operations. Join us for a summer of working and learning Smartly!
As an intern on the Growth Marketing team, you will support…Website
- Support landing page builds, site updates, and conversion optimization
- Assist with SEO and AEO research, including FAQs, query insights, and competitor reviews
- Help maintain website reporting on traffic, engagement, and conversion trends
- Support experimentation, personalization, and interactive web tools
- Prep proof points like testimonials, case studies, logos, and screenshots
- Clean and improve database quality for customers and prospects
- Review email addresses, QA campaigns, and complete final proofs
- Organize list uploads and imports into Marketo
- Document repeatable workflows and help standardize reporting
- Refresh outdated nurture content and support attribution setup in Tableau and Marketo
- Keep projects organized across Slack, Monday, and tracking sheets
- Send reminders and manage task follow-up
- Turn meeting notes into action items by owner
- Build timelines and support one-off Brand team requests
- Attend weekly growth marketing meetings, and bi-weekly global marketing team meetings
- Additional growth marketing support including reporting
- Work with a number of stakeholders within multiple departments, including brand marketing, product marketing and sales
- Meet and collaborate with fellow interns in our CHI office
- Full-time rising Junior, Senior, or graduating at an accredited 4-year College or University
- Highly motivated and eager to learn more about marketing - marketing courses desired
- Strong attention to detail and goal orientated
- Deadline driven
- Numbers whiz, someone who loves to dive into the numbers to tell a story
- An ambitious self-starter who is not afraid to try new things
- Desire to work in a high-growth startup atmosphere
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
This internship is paid at $20 per hour and will be approximately 30 hours per week between June 16th and August 20th of 2026.
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Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.
Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.
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