Kargo creates breakthrough cross-screen ad experiences for the world’s leading brands and publishers. Every day, our 600+ employees bring the power of their creativity and diversity to radically raise the bar on what mobile, CTV, AI, social, and eCommerce can do to build businesses. Now 20 years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland. Humble brag: In 2025, Kargo was recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In.
Who We Hire
Success takes all kinds. Diversity describes our workforce. Inclusion defines our culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or other legally protected status. Individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Title: Intern, Program Management
Job Type: Internship; 3 Days In Office
Job Location: New York, NY
Compensation: $20.00/ hour
Duration: June 2, 2025 - August 8, 2025 (10 weeks)
The Opportunity
The Program Management Intern is a member of the Program Management team, whose mission is to facilitate and fuel the execution of corporate strategies. Through Kargo’s Objectives and Key Results(OKR) framework, this team creates synergy across strategic investments and cross-functional initiatives to ensure key milestones are met successfully. In this position, you will support the Program Management coach overseeing 1-2 high-priority strategic programs with a focus on the go-to-market launch process for any new and upcoming product releases.
The Daily To-Do
- Be a catalyst for change in the organization, lead with authority, and handle evolving change efforts by establishing excellent rapport with stakeholders
- Works with PMO lead to align initiatives to strategic objectives and key results
- Within a program:
- Ensures alignment across business owners and partners with stakeholders to deliver expected results
- Defines roles, responsibilities, decision-making authority, and policy
- Identifies stakeholders, engages and develops an effective communication plan
- Proactively identifies and manages cross-functional dependencies
- Identifies, analyzes, prioritizes, and manages bottlenecks & risks
- Ensures benefits are identified and planned for; assessing progress towards benefits achievement
- Directly coordinates key deliverables for high-priority programs
- Reports on progress against milestones, deliverables, and outcomes at each stage of a program to program stakeholders
- Monitor and track program goals, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Manages key program documents so that all stakeholders have clear and easy access to critical information
Qualifications
- This year, we’ll be prioritizing candidates who are rising undergraduate seniors or who are pursuing postgraduate studies. All interns are required to be eligible to work in the U.S. with no visa sponsorship.
- Interest in the advertising technology industry in a program management, product, operations, or account management role
- Experience in a strategic, analytical, and operational role in fast-paced environments
- Comfortable either taking initiatives from conception to launch or jumping into a pre-existing program and optimizing output
- Enjoy working amidst ambiguity, being resourceful to execute complex projects
- Process-oriented mindset and ability to work with people to get things done
- Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration and tool development
- Experience with organizational/planning tools
- Excellent organizational skills and a sense of prioritization
- Highly self-motivated with a strong sense of urgency
- Strong active listening and questioning skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
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What We Do
Kargo creates breakthrough cross-screen ad experiences for the world’s leading brands and publishers. Every day, our 600+ employees bring the power of their creativity and diversity to radically raising the bar on what mobile, CTV, AI, social, and eCommerce can do to wow consumers and build businesses. Now 20 years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland.
Why Work With Us
The key to our success is our people. We’ve built a community that values teamwork, is not afraid to take chances and relentlessly strives to disrupt the industry and stand out from the crowd. Diversity is fundamental to the Kargo culture as we celebrate and embrace our differences in our inclusive workplace.
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