Co-op - Marketing AI Innovation & Transformation

Are you passionate about leveraging cutting-edge AI to transform global marketing operations?

Do you thrive on solving complex operational challenges and shaping the future of AI workflows?

Join our Digital Technology, Insights and OperationsTeam!

Akamai’s Marketing AI Innovation and Transformation team is part of the Digital Technology, Insights & Operations team (DigTechIO) and responsible for accelerating operational agility and scaling AI across Akamai’s global marketing organization. We are looking for a Co-op to help provide hands-on AI workflow transformation. You will be working with stakeholders across marketing functions to evaluate AI use cases, test workflow enhancements, and streamline cross-functional marketing execution.

As a participant in our programs, you will gain valuable experience and make contributions through meaningful project work. You will have the opportunity to join us for trainings, networking events, and engagements with company leadership. Our full-time 6-month co-op program starts on January 4th and goes through June 25th, 2027.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will be working to ensure that priority marketing workflows achieve measurable efficiency gains by transforming the way marketing work gets done. You will tackle real problems, conduct stakeholder interviews, and explore the "art of the possible" by designing, prototyping, and deploying AI solutions across global marketing teams.

As a marketing co-op, you will be responsible for:

• Assisting in the design and testing of AI-enhanced marketing workflows to streamline day-to-day campaign and operational tasks.
• Partnering with marketing leaders across disciplines to identify operational bottlenecks and prototype solutions.
• Driving enablement, creating user guides and training marketing teams on newly built tools to ensure long-term adoption and ownership.
• Tracking ROI and presenting outcomes, measuring time savings and presenting final sprint achievements to the Marketing Leadership Team (MLT).

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in Marketing, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Demonstrate hands-on curiosity with generative AI tools, prompt structuring, and workflow automation.
• Work comfortably with marketing operations, data structures, and performance metrics, bringing technical problem-solving skills to business challenges.
• Communicate clearly and proactively, collaborating effectively with global team members and presenting findings with confidence.

Work in a way that works for you

This is a flexible role and may be performed at your home and/or the local Akamai office (in the country advertised). We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more details when you apply.

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.

Working for you

Through our intern and co-op programs we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Benefits offered to interns and co-ops through our managed service provider (MSP). Students also gain the following benefits directly from our programs:

• Mentorship
• Career development trainings
• Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats
• Networking and social events with other learners
• Final project showcase presented to the company
• Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you! By the end of your assignment, you will gain a network of encouraging colleagues ready to support you in your studies and beyond.

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