Key Skills

Job Description

Become ridiculously good at marketing Most marketing internships involve scheduling posts, updating spreadsheets and watching someone else run the campaigns. Not here. As a Growth Marketing Intern at IXTE, you’ll work directly with senior marketers on real campaigns for companies in the financial sector. Think funds, financiers, fintechs, insurers and other financial firms with complex propositions and difficult-to-reach audiences. You’ll learn how to find the right audiences, build campaigns, develop creative concepts, analyze performance and turn marketing data into better commercial decisions. No endless theory. No internship where you spend six months watching from the sidelines. You’ll work on real campaigns, with real budgets, for real clients. What will you do? You’ll become part of the IXTE marketing team and gradually take ownership of real marketing projects. Depending on your development, you’ll work on things such as: Building and optimizing campaigns in LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads and Meta Ads Researching markets, audiences and customer profiles Helping translate propositions into campaigns that actually resonate Developing new ad concepts, hooks, visuals and content ideas Analyzing campaign performance and figuring out why something works or does not Working with tools such as GA4, Looker and Piwik Learning how Account Based Marketing works for high-value B2B accounts Improving landing pages, funnels and conversion paths Turning input from our Managing Director and senior specialists into strong marketing output Helping grow the IXTE brand within the financial sector Experimenting with AI, data and marketing technology Using feedback from sales and clients to improve campaign quality You won’t just learn which buttons to click. You’ll learn why you click them in the first place. Why finance? Marketing a financial proposition is different from selling sneakers or software subscriptions. Trust matters more. Claims are scrutinized. Decisions can involve multiple stakeholders. A prospect may research the company, management team, track record, documentation and reputation long before taking action. That makes finance an interesting place to learn marketing. You need to understand more than advertising. You need to understand audiences, positioning, credibility, creative, data and commercial decision-making. And that is exactly what you’ll be exposed to at IXTE. What will you learn? By the end of your internship, we want you to understand much more than how to launch an ad campaign. You’ll learn how to: translate a commercial objective into a marketing strategy; identify and research attractive target audiences; build and optimize campaigns on LinkedIn and Google; judge advertising on more than clicks and cheap leads; develop creatives that attract the right people; analyze data without getting lost in dashboards; connect marketing performance with actual commercial outcomes; build campaigns for senior and financially sophisticated audiences; understand the role of content, paid media, search and retargeting; use AI and technology to work faster and make better decisions; and communicate marketing ideas clearly to clients and colleagues. In short: you’ll learn how good marketers think. Not just how marketing software works. Your challenge IXTE is growing rapidly within the financial sector. We want to strengthen our position, improve our campaigns and keep raising the quality of our work. You’ll help us do that. One day you might be analyzing a LinkedIn campaign. The next you could be developing a new creative concept, researching a niche financial audience or helping turn an idea from our Managing Director into content. If you have a good idea, we expect you to share it. If it makes sense, we’ll test it. If it works, we’ll scale it. If it fails, we’ll figure out why. That is part of the job. Who are we looking for? We’re not looking for someone who already knows everything. If you did, you probably wouldn’t need an internship. We are looking for someone who wants to learn quickly and take responsibility. You’ll probably fit in well if you: are entrepreneurial and action-oriented; have a genuine interest in marketing; are interested in business, finance or investing; enjoy both creativity and data; communicate clearly; can write; like figuring out why something works; are comfortable asking questions; take initiative instead of waiting for instructions; and have a strong get-things-done mentality. You don’t have to arrive as a finished marketer. You do need the ambition to become one. What we offer This should not be an internship you simply complete. It should accelerate you. You’ll get: A competitive internship allowance Direct coaching from our Managing Director and senior marketers Real responsibility from an early stage Experience with actual campaigns and advertising budgets Access to IXTE’s internal marketing knowledge and training A personalized development plan Exposure to performance marketing, ABM, content, creative, data and marketing technology The freedom to test your own ideas A company laptop and phone Flexible and hybrid working An entrepreneurial team with short lines of communication Plenty of room to grow inside the company The possibility to continue at IXTE after your internship For the right long-term fit, there is room to grow considerably further within IXTE. We work hard and expect a lot from each other. But we also like building the company together. Work hard, play hard still applies. Where will you work? IXTE is based at Delftechpark in Delft, next to the TU Delft Campus. It is a fitting environment for where the company is heading. Finance. Marketing. Data. Technology. Increasingly connected. You’ll work partly from the office and partly hybrid, depending on what makes sense for the work and the team. About IXTE IXTE is a marketing agency specialized in the financial sector. We work with organizations such as funds, financiers and other financial service providers that want to reach specific audiences and create measurable commercial growth. Our work combines strategy, paid media, audience research, creative, data and technology. We deliberately work with a senior team. That means you’ll learn directly from people who are already doing the work at a high level. One last thing Don’t apply because you simply need an internship for school. Apply because you want to look back after six months and think: “I became a much better marketer here.” We are not looking for an extra pair of hands. We’re looking for someone who wants to become dangerously good at marketing in finance. Type: Paid internship Location: Delftechpark, Delft + hybrid Focus: Growth Marketing, Finance, Performance Marketing, Content & Marketing Technology

Core Responsibilities

Build and optimize paid campaigns, research financial-sector audiences, develop creative concepts, and analyze performance using marketing analytics tools. Support account-based marketing, landing-page and funnel improvements, brand growth, and the use of AI and marketing technology.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, action-oriented, genuinely interested in marketing, and interested in business, finance, or investing. They should enjoy combining creativity with data, communicate and write clearly, take initiative, ask questions, and be motivated to learn quickly; prior marketing expertise is not required.

Benefits

• Competitive Internship Allowance
• Direct Coaching
• Real Responsibility
• Personalized Development Plan
• Training
• Company Laptop
• Company Phone
• Flexible Working
• Hybrid Working
• Growth Opportunities