It’s also probably not in your best interest to call it “strat.” That’s just us giving you a nice little head start if you were nice enough to read this sentence.

Seriously though.

Please read the posting for our Client Strategy Coordinator position here.

Are you an aspiring copywriter or art director?

When you read that, did you nod your head and look around the room, like, “who, me?” Almost like an infomercial?

Good. That’s what we were aiming for. Below is a bunch of “job” talk about the interns we’re looking for in NYC. Read it and get back to us at jobs.mekanism.com . Thanks, internet.

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Art Direction/Design Internship

We are currently looking for full time Art Direction/Design intern(s) for the summer in our New York City SoHo office. Candidates should be generalists with strong abilities in design, animation, motion graphics, and/or production, and concepting. Our previous AD interns have hopped around from comping up ideas & decks for pitches, to designing and producing animated content in After Effects, to doing stop motion animation tests.

Qualifications

• Current student or recent graduate from a design/new media program
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Adobe CS tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Familiarity with After Effects
• Passion for the industry, competitive spirit, motivated to learn and grow
• Strong organization and planning skills
• Ability to keep pace with our fast moving pitch pipeline
• Calm and tactful under pressure
• Professionalism, poise, diplomacy and self-confidence to take on difficult issues
• Discretion about private and confidential matters

Please apply via jobs.mekanism.com and submit your resume, cover letter, and some examples of your work. Make sure to mention “New York Art Direction Internship” in your CL.

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Copywriting Internship

We are currently looking for full time copywriter intern(s) for the summer in our New York City SoHo office. Candidates should be strong conceptually, be fluent in creative use of social media in campaign settings, look/think beyond the tag line and consider things from a more narrative/long form standpoint. Copy interns will be leveraged across several practice areas, including ideation/concepting on pitches with our lead writers, CDs and ECDs, collaboration with our social media team, and other projects on an as-need basis.

Qualifications

• Current student or recent graduate of a writing, advertising, or creative arts program
• Passion for the industry, competitive spirit, and motivated to learn and grow
• Strong organization and planning skills
• Ability to keep pace with our fast moving pitch pipeline
• Calm and tactful under pressure
• Professionalism, poise, diplomacy and self-confidence to take on difficult issues
• Discretion about private and confidential matters

Please apply via jobs.mekanism.com and submit your resume, cover letter, and some examples of your work. Make sure to mention “New York Copywriting Internship” in your CL.