ABC News Digital Media Business Operations Intern, Spring 2027

About the role

The ABC News Digital Media Business Operations group collaborates across segment integrated teams to develop, implement and refine business processes and plans to maximize growth, monetization, and operating income. We foster and facilitate cross-functional conversations to align overall thinking, provide transparency and drive forward execution of key business priorities. We build strong partnerships with the portfolio of businesses & brands that we help grow. The Digital Media Business Operations group includes Digital News and eCommerce strategy & business operations, Operational Analytics, and Monetization / Revenue Optimization functions, as well as New Business identification and evaluation. This team partners closely with the following stakeholders: Finance; Research, Insights & Analytics; Entertainment Product & Technology teams as they develop long-range planning and annual operating targets, and focus on the daily, weekly, monthly and year over year rhythms of the business. The team is embedded for high-touch collaboration with editorial, content, broadcast partners and other stakeholders. Once segment targets are set by News & Networks Leadership, we identify the “how” to execute and deliver against business strategies, goals and financial objectives. This team provides ongoing support through strategic initiative ‘launch’ and operations. This internship is a full-time, six-month commitment in New York, NY from January 2027 - June 2027.

Responsibilities

• Lead at least one cross-functional project to catalyze action against one of the strategic growth initiatives, while also acting as a critical thought partner for day-to-day operations.
• Contribute to strategic analysis of new and existing business opportunities with market analysis and financial modeling.
• Perform competitive analysis and market analyses to help evaluate the performance of our products and services and to provide benchmarks.
• Aid in the formation and streamlining of operational processes through development of slides and rules of the road documents, including helping the team best determine how to use AI in service of these needs, and then participate in meetings to help onboard and educate key stakeholders.
• Actively participate in brainstorms and work cross functionally with other stakeholders on the Digital News teams to develop bold and innovative ideas that drive audience growth and/or monetization.
• Create first pass at agenda topics, meeting objectives and slides/materials for multiple weekly executive meetings and readouts.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Strategic thinker & problem solver, naturally able to connect customer, business and product needs.
• Professional agility – Proven ability to take initiative on new projects and drive complex, ambiguous issues to resolution.
• Experience with preparation & delivery of executive-level presentations, as well as influencing senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build compelling/congruent PowerPoint presentations, which simplify complex analytics for executive audiences.
• Strong analytical skills, including ability to process complex data sets and build financial and strategic models from scratch in Excel.
• Excellent time and project management skills, with the ability