Optimization Specialist Intern

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Budapest
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AdTech • Big Data • Digital Media • Marketing Tech
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social.
The Role
The Optimization Specialist Intern will monitor and optimize DCO campaigns, manage budgets, perform A/B tests, and create performance reports.
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Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

As an Optimization Specialist Intern at our Budapest office- 60% position, you’ll play a key role in maximizing the performance of Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) campaigns for global advertisers. You’ll work hands-on with data to monitor, analyze, and optimize campaigns, ensuring they deliver strong results and actionable insights. This role blends analytical depth and technical skills with creative problem-solving, giving you exposure to real-world performance marketing at scale. It’s an opportunity to grow your technical and analytical skills in a fast-moving, data-driven environment.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

  • B.Sc in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or related field; available ~3 days/week during internship.
  • Strong SQL and Excel skills, including advanced functions, pivot tables, and data manipulation.
  • Solid grasp of statistical and mathematical concepts to interpret metrics and make data-driven decisions.
  • Analytical, logical thinker with a problem-solving mindset-  proactive in identifying and resolving issues.
  • Independent and reliable, able to manage time, own tasks end-to-end, and deliver high-quality results.

Bonus points if you have:

  • Python knowledge.

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Monitor day-to-day performance of DCO (Dynamic Creative Optimization) campaigns, ensuring they meet or exceed target KPIs.
  • Manage budget pacing, spending boosts and budget depletion to maximize efficiency and results.
  • Perform optimization across key dimensions including sites, devices, creatives, bids and audience segments.
  • Set up, monitor and evaluate advertiser-specific A/B tests — from hypothesis through execution to analysis.
  • Create regular reports for clients and internal stakeholders detailing performance trends, insights and recommendations.
  • Analyze campaign performance and prepare insights and presentations for internal business meetings, identifying issues and recommending actionable improvements.

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

  • Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
  • Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
  • Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.

About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

By submitting your application/CV, any personal information you provide will be subject to Taboola’s Candidates Data Policy. Please review our policy carefully before submitting any of your personal information. You may contact us at [email protected] with any questions about how we collect or use your personal information, or your applicable rights.

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Python (Optional)
SQL

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,900 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

Why Work With Us

Taboola is the best of both worlds: We're an established public company but operate like a startup! You're encouraged to express opinions and challenge the status quo. Employees constantly come together to support each other's wins, from leadership development programs and wellness offerings to catered lunches and celebratory diversity events.

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Taboola offers team members flexibility, we offer the ability to work remotely two days a week, a flexible time off policy (no need to accrue days off and no cap on how many vacation days you can take) & a very generous paid family leave policy!

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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