Every day, CivicScience gathers opinions from millions of consumers on thousands of topics that provide consumer insights to leading brands. If there's a question critical to the marketing strategy of the Global 2000, CivicScience has the data.
CivicScience Internships
CivicScience internships are designed to introduce students to the world of market intelligence, advertising, and media. We are currently seeking an undergraduate or graduate student to join us in January 2027 for 6-10 weeks, up to 20 hours per week, with flexibility to meet student needs and academic requirements.
In this role, you will partner with the VP, Product Marketing, receiving direct mentorship and regular guidance to explore how modern advertising platforms leverage responsibly sourced, high-quality audience data to produce desired outcomes and meaningful results for clients.
As an intern, you will learn to:
- Translate real-time consumer opinion data into compelling marketing narratives, sales collateral, and industry trend reports
- Understand the development and execution of multi-channel marketing campaigns, content calendars, and brand initiatives
- Organize and manage marketing asset libraries, pitch materials, and standardized brand design templates
- Track and interpret essential performance metrics across digital marketing channels to observe how data informs campaign optimizations
- Research industry dynamics, cookieless advertising trends, and competitive positioning across the ad tech and digital media landscapes
- Create structured project deliverables, presentations, and written portfolio pieces that fulfill requirements for academic credit
- Use tools like Canva and AI-powered platforms to help design marketing materials, streamline content creation, and bring creative ideas to life.
- Experiment with AI and new tools and take ownership of selected projects.
Qualifications & Experience
- Current enrollment in an undergraduate or graduate program in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business, or a related field
- Eligibility to receive college credits for an unpaid internship (academic documentation required)
- Ability to convey ideas clearly and persuasively with a strong interest in consumer insights and digital advertising
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including impeccable grammar and attention to detail
- Tech literacy across standard office and collaboration platforms (Google Workspace, presentation tools)
CivicScience internships are remote (work from home) roles for US-based undergraduate or graduate students. Time commitment is up to 20 hours per week for 6-10 weeks. Preference is given to candidates in the Eastern time zone.
CivicScience Culture
Guided by our Leadership Principles, CivicScience offers a high-energy, vibrant culture with ambitious, innovative, and forward-thinking team members. Our three business units - Media Partnerships, Consumer Intelligence, and Advertising Solutions - work together to fuel CivicScience's goals, ambitions, and objectives.
We've been recognized for our work in the Inc. 5000, Pittsburgh Top Workplaces 2022, Pittsburgh Business Times Fast 50, GRIT Top 50 Innovative Supplier, Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 (winner), and Mental Health America’s Bell Seal program (Platinum 2026; Gold 2025 & 2024).
More about CivicScience
CivicScience data collection engine captures over 1M survey responses daily, creating the most dynamic, real-time understanding of consumer wants, needs, and intentions in a constantly changing world. Powered by our premium media partnerships, our attitudinal database helps brands and media companies retain and grow existing customers while reaching and acquiring new ones. Our clients use CivicScience's unique dataset to inform advertising, communications, product, and financial strategies that drive superior business outcomes.
Skills Required
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business, or a related field
- Eligible to receive college credits for an unpaid internship and able to provide academic documentation
- Ability to convey ideas clearly and persuasively, with an interest in consumer insights and digital advertising
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong grammar and attention to detail
- Tech literacy with standard office, collaboration, Google Workspace, and presentation tools
- Availability for a 6–10 week internship beginning January 2027, up to 20 hours per week
- Based in the United States and able to work remotely
What We Do
"CivicScience data is not only predictive, more importantly, it's actionable." - Mark Cuban We are a consumer intelligence research platform that translates real-time, consumer intentions into market-changing business intelligence. In simple terms: We power the world’s opinions and quickly deliver that data to the decision-makers who care. But, how? We poll millions of (unpaid) Americans each week, with questions related to thousands of topics. We then use our powerful technology - the InsightStore™ - to analyze those opinions, discover market and cultural trends before they grow, and accurately predict future consumer behaviors and market outcomes. It’s market research like you’ve never seen before – which is why thousands of marketers and market research professionals, across all different verticals, trust us to answer their most pressing questions. But enough about us – how can we help you? #MarketResearch, #ConsumerInsights, #DataDrivenMarketing, #ConsumerMarketing, #MarketingSolution
