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.