Smartly is looking for a Business Analytics Intern to join our team for Fall 2026. This internship offers hands-on experience applying analytical skills to real business and customer challenges while working alongside members of our Business Analytics team.
You’ll support a broad range of ongoing and ad hoc analytical projects, helping transform complex data into clear, actionable insights. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is naturally curious, comfortable working with data, and eager to explore how modern analytics and AI tools can help teams make better-informed decisions.
As a Business Analytics Intern, you will…- Transform raw datasets into well-structured data models for analysis, reporting, and dashboarding
- Analyze complex customer and business datasets to identify actionable insights and opportunities to better serve our customers
- Build, maintain, and enhance dashboards used by teams across the organization
- Support ad hoc analytical requests and investigations
- Work with stakeholders to understand business questions and translate them into effective analytical approaches
- Use AI tools to improve the efficiency and quality of your analytical work
- Help explore ways for teams across Smartly to use AI to answer analytical questions more effectively
- Communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Are currently pursuing or have recently completed a degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or another quantitative or analytical field
- Have strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Have experience working with SQL
- Are familiar with data modeling tools such as dbt or similar technologies—this is considered a strong advantage
- Have experience with Python or another programming language used for data analysis—this is beneficial but not required
- Are naturally curious and comfortable working with data
- Can think logically and work through ambiguous problems
- Are motivated to learn new tools, technologies, and analytical techniques
- Have an interest in AI and its applications within analytics
- Can communicate complex findings in a clear and accessible way
- Hands-on experience working as part of a Business Analytics team
- Experience preparing and modeling datasets for downstream analysis and reporting
- Exposure to SQL and modern analytics tools used to work with large, complex datasets
- Experience structuring analyses and translating data into actionable business insights
- Experience designing dashboards that clearly communicate key metrics and trends
- Practice partnering with stakeholders and translating business questions into analytical solutions
- Experience incorporating AI tools into analytical workflows
- An understanding of how AI can support self-service analytics across an organization
This internship will be approximately 30 hours per week from October 6 through December 17, 2026.
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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Skills Required
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or another quantitative or analytical field
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Experience working with SQL
- Familiarity with data modeling tools such as dbt or similar technologies
- Experience with Python or another programming language used for data analysis
- Curiosity and comfort working with data
- Ability to think logically and work through ambiguous problems
- Motivation to learn new tools, technologies, and analytical techniques
- Interest in AI and its applications within analytics
- Ability to communicate complex findings clearly and accessibly
What the Team is Saying
Smartly Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Five weeks of paid vacation, company holidays, wellness days, and localized 25–30 day annual leave are prominently highlighted. Short‑term work‑from‑anywhere allowances complement PTO by making time off and location flexibility easier to use.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered with immediate start in some markets, alongside global mental‑health support through Auntie. These benefits are positioned as part of a strong baseline that is localized by country.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid/remote setups and work‑from‑anywhere options (e.g., up to 60 days from another Smartly location or 30 days from a non‑Smartly location) expand where and how work gets done. Stipends for fully remote setups are also referenced in employer materials.
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What We Do
We solve for advertising campaign and creative complexities - both key elements to the time/money savings and performance that brands, agencies and businesses seek. Our unified platform combines media, creative, and intelligence, offering end-to-end workflows powered by AI across the open and closed web. With over 700 brands and advertisers, we've proven that dynamic and personalized creative makes advertising impactful. We are on a mission to transform the advertising experience for brands and their consumers. ⚡️
Why Work With Us
As a fast-paced growth company, we offer opportunities to maximize learning and amplify impact. Our culture and values have always been the secret sauce of our growth. They define how we aspire to build our adtech product, whom we hire and reward, and how we work towards a shared vision. Join us in moving advertising forward.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are a hybrid workplace where Smartlies have the flexibility of hybrid work combining office and work from home. We also offer programs for short-term remote work globally.
