Top Internships in Des Moines, IA

Create lists of potential members, collaborate with market research to identify interested groups, and complete a flexible, mentor-guided business development project aligned with internship course requirements.

Project-based student internship to develop a content strategy, produce educational media, and support fellow marketing interns. Interns are paired with volunteer mentors and work flexibly to meet course requirements while promoting JMI's mission.

Project-based internship to create an introductory Economic Anthropology course (medium of your choice) focused on sustainability, equity, and efficiency. Interns are matched with volunteer mentors, must meet academic internship requirements, and will develop educational content flexible to course needs.

Project-based internship to create a business plan for Just Markets Institute, build internal processes and systems with mentor guidance, and support educational and marketing teams while meeting course requirements.

Work as a project-based communications intern within a six-person marketing team. Create a strategic communications plan targeted to specific audiences, develop marketing strategies to promote educational content and boost membership, and collaborate with a volunteer mentor and staff. Projects are flexible to meet spring internship course requirements.

Create an introductory Game Theory course (choice of medium) focused on the Prisoner's Dilemma and collective action problems. Work with a volunteer mentor, meet internship course requirements, and produce flexible educational content.

Create an introductory Development Economics course (focus on economic history and public institutions) using a chosen educational medium; work with a volunteer mentor and JMI staff to meet internship course requirements.

Support the Educational Team by building a uniform Google Sites platform, assist interns and mentors, and contribute to creating introductory courses across six economics topics. Work is project-based and flexible to meet academic internship requirements.

Support execution of large-scale B2B outbound and demand-generation campaigns: build outreach sequences, manage outreach tools, enrich and QA data, maintain outbound infrastructure, coordinate webinar and content syndication operations, research target accounts/ICPs, assist reporting, and apply AI tools to automate workflows.

Support digital marketing and community efforts in MENA: gather and manage data for content and campaigns, handle community queries on Telegram/Discord, use campaign portals (Task On, Galaxy, Zealy), conduct data research, assist lead generation, monitor campaign metrics, and follow the content plan to improve engagement and ROI.

Under close supervision, this intern supports transportation brokerage operations and learns about carrier verification, shipment records, freight monitoring, market trends, pricing, capacity challenges, carrier negotiations, and margin goals. The role also develops skills in communicating service issues between internal stakeholders and carriers while gaining familiarity with J.B. Hunt’s transportation technology and load-management tools.

Engineering intern supporting bridge, geotechnical, transportation, roadway, water resources, municipal, and inspection projects. Assists with engineering research, project design, calculations, drawings, submittals, and technical documentation under the direction of engineers. Requires current enrollment in an accredited post-secondary engineering program, basic engineering and mathematical knowledge, Microsoft Office proficiency, and the ability to organize technical information. AutoCAD or MicroStation experience and two years of coursework are preferred.

Supports transportation planning project teams under close supervision by conducting basic research and data collection, maintaining project records and files, and helping create graphics, presentations, and reports. The role is a temporary Summer 2027 internship for students enrolled in a related undergraduate or graduate program, with preferred experience in AutoCAD, MicroStation, and traffic modeling.

Support recruitment, campus outreach, and partnership development. Source, screen, and shortlist candidates; hire campus ambassadors and sales interns; coordinate onboarding, meetings, and payments; maintain partner relationships and track deliverables.

Work across frontend and backend to design, build, and ship annotation and review features; implement ingestion, storage, user management, and annotation pipelines; integrate model inference into workflows; optimize performance for large images/videos; design APIs and collaborate with product, operations, and annotators.

Label and outline plants in agricultural images using an online tool, tag crop and weed types per guidelines, maintain high accuracy across many images. Remote, flexible internship (3 months) with a monthly stipend and completion certificate. No coding or prior labeling experience required; video tutorials provided.

Perform B2B market and contact research to identify prospective companies and decision-makers, achieve daily lead-generation targets, gather executive contact information using tools and strategies, and support email prospecting and outreach efforts.

This intern role in Federal Security Operations focuses on cybersecurity, project tracking, and maintaining relationships with customer stakeholders in a mission-driven environment.

Supports Zoetis’s US Pork Team by assisting sales representatives with customer outreach, relationship management, presentations, market analysis, sales meetings, events, and promotions. The intern collaborates with sales, veterinary, and pork production teams while developing animal-health sales experience. The role is remote, runs for nine weeks, and requires proficiency with Microsoft Office, strong communication skills, self-management, and access to a personal vehicle for work travel.

Supports DIRECTV’s Project Management Framework by maintaining standards, templates, documentation, dashboards, governance processes, and project tracking. The intern reviews project artifacts, monitors milestones and risks, documents lessons learned, supports framework adoption and onboarding, and contributes to process improvements and responsible AI-enabled productivity initiatives. This is a 10-week remote internship for candidates with full U.S. work authorization.

Remote summer intern supporting DIRECTV’s People & Transformation team through cross-functional projects, communications analysis, project management, financial tracking, reporting, and compliance-related work. The role involves researching topics, identifying trends, maintaining trackers, preparing basic analyses, using AI and reporting tools, coordinating follow-up, and handling sensitive information with discretion.

Support PERGOLUX’s Germany-wide showroom expansion by researching markets and locations, speaking with brokers and operators, building commercial business cases, creating decision scorecards, and developing dashboards, automations, workflows, and AI-enabled tools. The intern will analyze early showroom results, capture lessons, and help create a scalable expansion playbook. The role combines research, commercial analysis, relationship-building, process design, and hands-on execution in German and English, with travel across Germany.

Supports DIRECTV for Business marketing initiatives through copywriting, campaign execution, market segmentation, KPI analysis, competitive research, website experience recommendations, and collaboration with creative and cross-functional teams. The intern may focus on business marketing or user experience and design while helping improve brand consistency, campaign effectiveness, qualified leads, and customer activations.

Supports DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS through KPI analytics, financial analysis, customer segmentation, and process improvement initiatives. The intern analyzes performance drivers, commitments, projects, and customer experience impacts; synthesizes insights into data stories; documents processes; and presents findings to leaders. The role involves cross-functional virtual collaboration and requires proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Python, SQL, Power BI, and data visualization.

Summer intern supporting DIRECTV for Business pricing, offers, and profitability initiatives. Responsibilities include building financial models in Excel, analyzing pricing and promotional performance, researching market and customer segmentation trends, developing pricing recommendations, collaborating cross-functionally, and tracking contract value, customer lifetime value, and promotional attach rates.