Marketing Executive / Digital Marketing Intern
- India (hybrid), working with our Dubai, UAE team
- Hybrid
- Internship
- Content & Campaigns
Learn digital marketing by doing real work for real brands. You will create content, run social media, support campaigns, and use AI tools every day, guided directly by the creative team of designers, 3D artists, and developers. Strong interns grow into the Marketing Executive role.
Starling Ads is a Dubai-based creative and Design Agency. We work across four divisions: Brands & Identity, Content & Campaigns, Spaces & Experiences, and Systems & Automation. We are a small, fast team with access to a global network of designers, developers, artists, and production houses.
As a Digital Marketing Intern, you will work on live client and company projects from your first week. You will learn how a modern agency plans, creates, publishes and measures marketing, and how AI is changing every step of it. This is not a coffee-and-photocopy internship. You will own small tasks, ship real work and build a portfolio. The strongest interns are offered the full-time Marketing Executive position.
This role is based in India and works with our Dubai team through scheduled calls, daily updates, and shared tools.
How to apply: email your CV and a short note (or portfolio link) to careers@starlingads.com with the subject “Application - Marketing Executive / Digital Marketing Intern."
What you'll do
- Plan and schedule social media content for Starling Ads and client brands (Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok)
- Write captions, short posts, ad copy and email drafts, using AI tools and human editing
- Create simple designs and short videos using Canva, CapCut and AI tools, under the Creative Director’s guidance
- Research competitors, trends, hashtags, keywords and audiences, and present findings in short reports
- Support SEO tasks: keyword research, blog outlines, on-page checks and basic website updates
- Help set up and monitor paid campaigns on Meta and Google, and track results
- Build and clean lead lists for the sales team using LinkedIn and Excel/Sheets
- Prepare weekly performance reports: reach, engagement, clicks, leads
- Support online reputation work: community replies, reviews and brand monitoring
- Send a short daily update and keep every task on time
What you'll bring
- Studying or recently completed a degree or diploma in Marketing, Mass Communication, Media, Business, Design or a related field (final-year students and fresh graduates welcome)
- Good written English, and clear, original thinking
- Active on social media, with a feel for what makes content work
- Basic skills in Canva or similar design tools
- Curious about AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and image or video generators, and willing to learn fast
- Comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets
- Organised, reliable and good at meeting deadlines
- Own laptop and stable internet connection
- Available for calls that overlap with UAE working hours (UAE is 1.5 hours behind India)
- A portfolio, social page, blog or sample work (any project counts, even personal)
- Arabic, Hindi or other languages are an advantage
- Nice to have - Experience running a page, channel or blog, even a personal one
- Basic video editing or photography
- Familiarity with Meta Ads Manager, Google Analytics, Google Ads or SEO tools
- Interest in branding, design, 3D or automation
What we offer
- Monthly stipend
- Real projects and a portfolio of published work
- Direct mentorship from the Founder & Creative Team
- Hands-on training in AI tools, automation and modern marketing
- AI tool subscriptions provided for your work
- Internship completion certificate and a reference letter
- Exposure to branding, content, spatial design and AI projects under one roof
- Clear path to a full-time Marketing Executive role for top performers
- A culture built on ethics, quality and credibility