Digital Marketing Intern

We’re Hiring! Join HighGear as a Digital Marketing Intern and gain valuable hands-on experience.

Position: Digital Marketing Intern

Location: Frederick, MD

The Role:
HighGear is adding a Digital Marketing Intern to our Marketing team to bring extra energy and hands-on support across digital advertising, email marketing, marketing automation, content, and website work. This role will give a motivated student or early-career marketer real exposure to how a focused B2B marketing team plans, executes, measures, and improves campaigns.

You will work closely with our Marketing Manager and the broader marketing team, helping keep day-to-day campaigns organized, accurate, and running smoothly. Reporting directly to the Marketing Manager, you’ll get the chance to see (and contribute to) multiple sides of marketing that are often split across separate teams at larger companies.

About HighGear:
HighGear is an AI-enabled visual workflow platform designed from the ground up to meet the rigorous requirements of the world’s most highly regulated industries. We help large organizations in finance, energy, government, defense and manufacturing dramatically improve visibility, accountability, and manageability of complex, long running and critical processes. We are profitable and growing rapidly with a focused team that leverages our technology and AI to outperform much larger competitors.

Why Join HighGear?
Based in beautiful downtown Frederick, Maryland, we’re proud to call this vibrant, historic city home; a place with a growing tech sector and an outstanding quality of life that helps us attract and retain top talent. We live by our values:

• Passion in pursuit of excellence and in commitment to customer success
• Humility in decency towards all and in respect for those we serve
• Teamwork in personal growth, in positive relationships and in productive collaboration
• Integrity in our words, in our choices and in our actions

What We Offer

• Direct mentorship from our Marketing Manager and hands-on collaboration with a small, tight-knit marketing team.
• Exposure to multiple marketing disciplines such as paid advertising, email/marketing automation, content, and web that are often siloed at larger companies.
• A profitable, growing SaaS company serving global leaders as your training ground.
• Upscale downtown Frederick work environment with a high-commitment team and excellent morale.

What You’ll Do

Digital Advertising & Campaign Support

• Assist with execution and day-to-day management of paid digital marketing campaigns.
• Help monitor campaign performance, budgets, leads, and other key metrics.
• Support campaign setup, testing, quality assurance, and ongoing optimization.
• Compile campaign performance data and help prepare recurring reports.
• Research audiences, keywords, competitors, and campaign opportunities.

Email Marketing & Marketing Automation

• Assist with building, scheduling, testing, and sending marketing emails.
• Help create and maintain email lists, audience segments, and campaign workflows.
• Perform quality assurance checks on emails, links, formatting, and personalization.
• Support lead nurturing and other automated marketing campaigns, and monitor performance.

Website & Creative Support

• Make basic website content updates; format and publish landing pages and blog posts.
• Resize, format, or prepare images and marketing assets.
• Perform website quality assurance, flagging broken links or outdated content.

General Marketing Support

• • Assist with content publishing, campaign coordination, and other marketing projects.
  • Conduct market, competitor, customer, and industry research.
  • Collaborate with team members on product launches, campaigns, and events.

What Success Looks Like (First 3 Months)

• Confidently execute recurring digital advertising and email campaign tasks with minimal oversight.
• Independently compile and deliver accurate campaign performance reports on a regular cadence.
• Complete at least one website or content project (e.g., landing page, blog post) from start to finish.
• Build working familiarity with our core marketing tools (advertising platforms, email/automation platform, analytics).

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in marketing, communications, business, advertising, digital media, or a related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and comfort working with data.
• Organized and able to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
• Curious, proactive, and eager to learn new marketing tools and techniques; comfortable asking questions and taking feedback.
• Interest in digital marketing, particularly paid advertising, email marketing, marketing automation, or web marketing.

Preferred

• Exposure to Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, LinkedIn Ads, or other digital advertising platforms.
• Familiarity with email marketing or marketing automation platforms, and/or Google Analytics or reporting tools.
• Experience with WordPress or another CMS, Canva/Adobe Creative Cloud/Figma, or basic HTML/CSS.
• Interest or coursework in SEO, content marketing, or B2B/technology marketing.

Location: Frederick, MD in person | Schedule: 15-20 hours per week, flexible | Internship Period: Through Spring of 2027 | Compensation: $15+ per hour