Do you love turning data into decisions and ideas into campaigns?
Are you excited by fast-moving teams where your work actually makes a difference?
Join our Digital Marketing Team!
Akamai's Digital Marketing team drives global demand for industry-leading cybersecurity and cloud solutions. We partner closely with Sales, Product, and Field Marketing teams to launch integrated campaigns that reach the right audiences at the right time while tracking KPI metrics.
Our 2026 12-week Summer Intern program starts on May 26th and goes through August 14th.
Partner with the best
You'll help manage live campaigns, support performance analysis, and contribute to real marketing initiatives that influence pipeline and growth. Along the way, you'll gain exposure to cross-functional collaboration, marketing operations, and the mechanics behind large-scale digital programs.
As an Intern - Digital Marketing, you will be responsible for:
- Managing digital campaign assets and trafficking workflows, including organizing creative files, applying naming conventions, building and verifying UTM tracking links, and preparing agency handoff documentation
- Monitoring live paid media campaigns (e.g., LinkedIn) to ensure proper execution, identifying performance gaps using CTR, impressions, and engagement metrics
- Analyzing audience and demographic data to optimize campaign alignment and contribute to weekly performance reporting and recap decks
- Coordinating cross-functional marketing operations, including tracking Jira tickets, QA'ing deliverables, capturing action items, and supporting sprint workflows via tools like Trello
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate exceptional organizational and detail management skills when handling multiple projects and deadlines
- Communicate clearly and proactively across internal teams and external stakeholders
- Have proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Operate independently while staying collaborative, with curiosity about B2B marketing and digital advertising
Work in a way that works for you
Akamai's Summer 2026 Intern Program requires you to be available 40 hours per week during summer months (May-August).
This is a hybrid role and may require an in-person presence at Akamai's HQ in Cambridge. We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more details when you apply.
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
Through our intern and co-op programs, you will be provided with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Students also gain the following benefits directly from our programs:
- Mentorship
- Career development trainings
- Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats
- Networking and social events with an international intern cohort
- Final project showcase presented to the company
- Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the
possible.
With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away.
Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation.
Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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