Strategy / M&A Intern, DoubleVerify
3+ days a week in office
Software platform for digital media measurement and analytics
Job no longer available
Software platform for digital media measurement and analytics
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build trust and transparency across the digital advertising ecosystem and help advertisers succeed.
Role
Who you are
- You don't need prior finance experience — but you do need to be curious, driven, and comfortable with ambiguity. Strong candidates will have:
- Strong academic record with interest in business, economics, finance, or technology
- Comfort working with data and spreadsheets (Excel or Google Sheets)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Genuine curiosity about how companies grow through strategy and acquisitions
- An entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to work independently on research projects
- Rising Junior or Senior
What the job involves
- Our Corporate Development team is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and executing mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships that accelerate DV's growth and competitive positioning. This summer, we're offering one exceptional student a front-row seat to how world-class M&A gets done
- As a Corporate Development & M&A Intern, you will work directly alongside our small deal team to support active research, analysis, and strategic projects
- This is a real working role — not a shadowing experience
- You will contribute to live workstreams, develop professional skills in financial analysis and industry research, and present findings to senior team members
- Market Mapping: Research and build a landscape of potential acquisition targets and strategic partners across adtech, martech, data infrastructure, and AI-driven advertising verticals
- Competitive Intelligence: Analyze public filings, earnings transcripts, and press releases to track the strategic moves of key competitors including The Trade Desk, Integral Ad Science, and Nielsen
- Financial Research: Assist in compiling revenue, growth, and profitability benchmarks for target companies using tools like PitchBook, Crunchbase, and public filings
- Deal Screening: Support the team in building target screening scorecards that evaluate strategic fit, product overlap, and financial metrics
- Presentation Support: Help prepare internal memos, slide decks, and briefing materials for corporate development team reviews
- Industry Deep Dives: Produce a research brief on an emerging segment (e.g., AI-generated content verification, retail media measurement, or agentic advertising) and present it to the corporate development team at the end of the internship
- What You'll Learn:
- How public and private companies are valued (revenue multiples, EBITDA, comparable company analysis)
- How a corporate development team thinks about build vs. buy vs. partner decisions
- How adtech and martech ecosystems are structured, who the key players are, and where the market is heading
Our take
The importance of digital advertising continues to grow, but it can be difficult for companies to protect their brand identity online. DoubleVerify solves this problem using software that monitors campaign performance in real-time.
Since it was first launched, DoubleVerify has successfully carved out an impressive market share, and now boasts customers such as digital advertising giant Facebook as long-time customers. Its success is largely owed to the quality of its technology, which far outperforms that of its rivals. DoubleVerify has consolidated its success by expanding the range of languages its tools support. It has also expanded into new markets such as Australia and New Zealand, a key indicator of the company’s continued growth.
The digital ad space is changing constantly, and DoubleVerify will need to remain as agile and adaptive as it is at present in order to compete with rivals such as Tremor and Quantcast. But with a 2021 IPO, several recent rounds of funding and new product releases, it looks set to tackle its competitors head on and stay ahead of the game.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2020
$350m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2011
$33m
LATE VC
Total funding: $396.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive Coverage: Because we want you to stay healthy.
- Pension Matching: 401(k) or country-specific contributions.
- Tuition Reimbursement: never stop learning.
- Generous Parental & Compassionate Leaves: putting families first.
- Onsite & Virtual Events & Wellness Activities: Team activities, wellness offerings, games and more!
- Flexible Lifestyle Spending Account: Gym, fitness class, self-care, or even pet care? You're covered for this and more.
- Mental Wellness Days: Take a day off for yourself.
- Global Access to Mental Health Resource: Investing in you being your best self.
- Hybrid Work Schedule: Making the most of your time.
- Peer Nominated Awards: Recognizing DV values in action.
- Seasonal Employee Appreciation Gifts: Enjoy summer treats and holiday sweets.
- Self-Directed Paid Time Off: You work hard. Enjoy it.
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Mark Zagorski
(CEO)Mark joined the DOubleVerify team as CEO in 2020,. Prior to this, he was the CEO for Telaria and an Executive VP/Head of Nielsen Marketing Cloud for Nielsen. He also spent 7 years at eXelate as CRO and CEO.
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