Internship - Junior Strategist

JUNIOR STRATEGIST INTERN – Summer 2023 Internship

REPORTING TO: Managing Director, Atlanta

PARTNERING WITH: Atlanta and New York Teams

LOCATION: Atlanta or New York

Are you curious about the world around you? Do you love going down a research rabbit hole about random topics? Do you completely nerd out in your favorite classes that you took just because they sounded cool?

If you answered yes to all of the above, you have found your people.

Hi, we’re Iris, and we’re looking for a Junior Strategist intern for our Summer 2022 Internship program. We’re looking for someone with a natural curiosity who gets excited about researching topics and drawing conclusions. In this internship, you’ll work alongside our team as they turn cultural understanding and key insights into actionable ideas for our various accounts.

Desired Skills And Experience

• Experience researching a topic, using findings to draw a conclusion, and presenting the analyses in a concise and digestible manner across different platforms (written, verbal presentation, using PowerPoint, creating graphics to display data)
• Self-motivated, decisive and doesn’t mind diving into the deep end.
• Currently pursuing a degree in a field that emphasizes research, critical thinking, and drawing conclusions and articulating your findings – DOES NOT have to be a field associated with Marketing, Communications, Advertising, etc.
• You are opinionated and not shy about it! BUT you have the facts to make you an expert in backing up your statements.
• Some majors include Sociology, Psychology, English, Philosophy, etc.

About Our Internship Program

• Interns will work closely with their manager and colleagues and will contribute to the work the team is doing for clients.
• This is NOT a coffee-run and making copies internship! Interns will work alongside the rest of our team, attend meetings, and will be fully immersed in day-to-day agency life.
• Compensation: $15/hour
• Dates: June 13 – August 5 (8 weeks)
• Interns will complete one grouproject for the program to be presented at the end of the 8 weeks
• Interns will attend weekly Lunch & Learns led by our team members

About Iris

Back in 1999, Iris was founded by a team of six people around a single client. Those six founders are still at the very heart of our business. Today, Iris is a thriving micro-network of over 1,000 people in 14 locations across the globe. We deliver a multitude of fully integrated specialisms within creative, consulting and mar-tech to some of the most progressive clients around the world.

We are part of the Cheil Worldwide network – the world’s 15th biggest creative agency company. Our partnership with Cheil has allowed us to extend our global to a network of 55 offices.

We are ‘For the Forward’. Always exploring. Restless. Never done. Radiators of positive energy that serve to motivate. Empowering and supporting others to find opportunity. We liberate ourselves by removing the barriers that stand in the way of progress. Confident, bold, decisive and at times challenging. We stretch what’s possible. Always asking ‘What will move us Forward?’

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large. We are For The Forward.