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Media Intern - Performance Marketing

HYRAX
Durban Full-day Temporary

Description:

About Us

At Hyrax , we’re a fast-paced, creative, and aggressive performance marketing agency focused on driving results through paid media. With offices in London and South Africa , we build campaigns that convert, combining intuition, data, and raw grit.

We’re a small, elite team of winners, and we’re looking for someone hungry to join us at the starting line and grow into a full-fledged Media Buyer .

About the Role

We’re looking for a Media Intern to be trained from the ground up into a Performance Media Buyer . This is not your average internship , you’ll be deep in live campaigns from day one, learning how to test, scale, and optimize paid traffic across platforms like Meta , TikTok , YouTube , and Native .

You’ll work alongside experienced media buyers, creative strategists, and analysts, learning how to launch aggressive campaigns, interpret data like a hawk, and scale winning offers to the moon.

Key Responsibilities

In the First 3–6 Months, You Will:

  • Shadow and assist senior media buyers with campaign setup, monitoring, and optimization
  • Learn testing frameworks and how to analyze key performance metrics (CTR, CVR, EPC, ROAS)
  • Help create ad copy, video scripts, and landing page briefs
  • Assist in creative tracking and version control
  • Document and organize test results, learning's, and reporting insights
  • Participate in internal brainstorms and creative strategy sessions
  • Help QA campaign launches for tracking, congruence, and accuracy (details, details, details)

As You Progress, You’ll Be Trained to:

  • Launch your own campaigns under supervision
  • Develop hypotheses and structured testing plans
  • Work independently on accounts with responsibility for budget and performance

What We’re Looking For

We care more about mindset than experience. You don’t need to know media buying , we’ll teach you. But you must be :

  • Detail-obsessed : Typos and mismatched UTMs can kill campaigns. You notice everything.
  • A self-starter : If something’s broken, you fix it. If it’s missing, you build it.
  • An analytical thinker : You enjoy solving puzzles, love numbers, and think in experiments.
  • Bold and curious : You’re not afraid to try big ideas, even if they flop.
  • Hungry and focused : You want a career, not just a job. You’re ready to earn your seat.

Requirements:

  • Shadow and assist senior media buyers with campaign setup, monitoring, and optimization
  • Learn testing frameworks and how to analyze key performance metrics (CTR, CVR, EPC, ROAS)
  • Help create ad copy, video scripts, and landing page briefs
  • Assist in creative tracking and version control
  • Document and organize test results, learning's, and reporting insights
  • Participate in internal brainstorms and creative strategy sessions
  • Help QA campaign launches for tracking, congruence, and accuracy (details, details, details)
  • Launch your own campaigns under supervision
  • Develop hypotheses and structured testing plans
  • Work independently on accounts with responsibility for budget and performance
  • Detail-obsessed : Typos and mismatched UTMs can kill campaigns. You notice everything.
  • A self-starter : If something’s broken, you fix it. If it’s missing, you build it.
  • An analytical thinker : You enjoy solving puzzles, love numbers, and think in experiments.
  • Bold and curious : You’re not afraid to try big ideas, even if they flop.
  • Hungry and focused : You want a career, not just a job. You’re ready to earn your seat.
  • No prior media buying experience required
  • Bachelor's degree preferred, but not required
  • Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills are a plus
  • Familiarity with digital marketing, paid social, or eCommerce is a bonus
  • Your job isn’t done until the job is done
  • Be creative
  • Trust your instincts and act with integrity
  • Be honest and open with your feedback
  • Be resourceful
  • Detail, details, details
  • Be bold with your campaigns

Requirements

  • No prior media buying experience required
  • Bachelor's degree preferred, but not required
  • Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills are a plus
  • Familiarity with digital marketing, paid social, or eCommerce is a bonus

Our Values : What You'll Be Expected to Embody

  • Your job isn’t done until the job is done
  • Be creative
  • Trust your instincts and act with integrity
  • Be honest and open with your feedback
  • Be resourceful
  • Detail, details, details
  • Be bold with your campaigns

We’ll hold you to these , because they’re how we win.

05 Jan 2026;   from: careers24.com

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