Fargo, ND | Hiring for Summer/Fall/Winter 2026
Why Absolute Studios?
Absolute Studios is a full-service marketing and brand strategy agency with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations build, launch, and grow their brands. The agency has supported clients across a range of industries, including advanced manufacturing, value-added agriculture, technology-based businesses, and autonomous systems, developing go-to-market strategies, brand platforms, and digital campaigns tailored to complex and highly technical markets.
Over the past two decades, Absolute Studios has mentored more than 100 interns, providing hands-on, real-world learning experiences across brand strategy, digital marketing, media, and creative execution. Interns work alongside experienced professionals, contribute to meaningful client and internal projects, and gain practical skills designed to prepare them for careers in marketing, media, and communications.
Learning Objective 1: Paid Media Platform Fundamentals
Objective:
Develop foundational knowledge of digital media buying platforms and paid advertising structures.
Learned Skill / Project:
The intern will learn how paid media accounts are structured across platforms (e.g., Meta, Google), including campaigns, ad sets, targeting, budgets, and creative formats, and will assist in organizing and setting up draft campaigns.
Measurement:
Success will be measured by the intern’s ability to accurately outline a paid media account structure and contribute to at least one draft media setup reviewed and approved by the supervising manager.
Learning Objective 2: Audience Targeting & Media Planning
Objective:
Build skills in analyzing paid media performance and applying insights to optimize campaigns.
Learned Skill / Project:
The intern will assist in reviewing campaign performance data, learning key metrics such as CTR, CPC, CPA, and ROAS, and will help summarize performance insights and optimization recommendations.
Measurement:
Success will be measured by the intern’s ability to produce performance summaries and optimization recommendations that demonstrate understanding of paid media metrics and campaign performance trends.
Objective:
Learn how to identify and define target audiences and translate them into paid media targeting strategies.
Learned Skill / Project:
The intern will support audience research and assist in developing a paid media planning document, including audience definitions, platform recommendations, budget allocation, and flighting considerations.
Measurement:
Success will be measured by completion of a paid media planning document and the intern’s demonstrated understanding of targeting logic, evaluated through manager review and feedback.
Learning Objective 3: Performance Analysis & Optimization
Objective:
Build skills in analyzing paid media performance and applying insights to optimize campaigns.
Learned Skill / Project:
The intern will assist in reviewing campaign performance data, learning key metrics such as CTR, CPC, CPA, and ROAS, and will help summarize performance insights and optimization recommendations.
Measurement:
Success will be measured by the intern’s ability to produce performance summaries and optimization recommendations that demonstrate understanding of paid media metrics and campaign performance trends.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the setup and organization of paid media campaigns across platforms such as Meta and Google, including campaigns, ad sets, targeting, budgets, and creative formats
- Support the development of paid media campaigns for internal review and approval
- Conduct audience research to help define target segments and inform paid media strategies
- Contribute to the creation of paid media planning documents, including audience definitions, platform recommendations, budget allocation, and campaign flighting
- Analyze campaign performance data and track key metrics such as CTR, CPC, CPA, and ROAS
- Assist in developing performance summaries that highlight key insights, trends, and opportunities
- Support optimization efforts by identifying actionable recommendations to improve campaign performance
- Collaborate with team members on media strategy, execution, and reporting across client and internal projects
- Participate in ongoing learning and application of digital marketing best practices and paid media strategies
- Work alongside experienced marketing professionals to contribute to real-world client initiatives and agency projects