Optimization Specialist Intern

Job Description

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company

As an Optimization Specialist Intern at our Budapest office- 60 PERCENT position, youll play a key role in maximizing the performance of Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) campaigns for global advertisers. Youll 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. Its an opportunity to grow your technical and analytical skills in a fast-moving, data-driven environment.

To thrive in this role, youll need:

• 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 optimisation 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.

Bonus points if you have:

• Prepare data inputs and presentations for internal business meetings (e.g., weeklies, BoB [business-on-business] meetings, syncs).
• Dive into underperforming campaigns: identify root causes, spot technical or creative challenges, and recommend actionable improvements.

How youll make an impact:

• BSc 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.
• Python knowledge is a plus.

Why Taboola?

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

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; You can copy anything from another business but you cant copy a companys 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, Taboolas 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 Taboolas technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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Locations - Budapest, Hungary

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