Summer Creative Intern

Reporting Location: Chicago - 345 North Morgan

Workplace Type: Hybrid

PROGRAM DATES June 3, 2025 – August 8, 2025

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

WHAT MATTERS THE MOST

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.

LIFE OF A TMS SUMMER INTERN

Here at tms, we care about our people, and we want to help foster their skills into the best they can be. The tms Summer Internship Program aims to do just that. Each year, we seek to build an inclusive program that not only offers hands-on experience working with clients and cross-functional teams alike but also promotes numerous networking and relationship building opportunities with industry leaders, mentors, and peers across the business.

As an intern, our program will provide you with the unique opportunity to fully integrate yourself across the various business units and departments at tms, while also focusing on team-building and strengths-building opportunities. Throughout the summer, as an intern at tms, you will take part in real client projects and will work together with the other tms interns on a Capstone project, which will be “pitched” to the agency at program end. As an intern, you will also have the opportunity to take part in various panels, lunch & learns, and group activities, all centered on providing you with career tips, guidance, and best practices. Our goal is to help foster the minds of our future – the talent that will ultimately develop and bring the freshest and most innovative ideas to life.

CREATIVE INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW

We are looking for Creative Interns across Copywriting, Design, Art Direction, Digital / Visual Design / Interactive Experience, and Packaging. You will learn agency process from kick-off to execution of client deliverables, & get hands-on experience participating in briefing sessions, concepting & brainstorming exercises to actually contributing on art, design, copy and communications.

As an intern, you will contribute to the development of concepts and work with the production department to produce marketing and promotional elements which could include: POP, print ads, menu boards, presentation decks and comps, direct mail, logo design, packaging, web pages and implementation guides, signage, and more.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Assist in concepting, copywriting, art direction and the overall creative process
Generate compelling creative that communicates clearly and effectively in all mediums
Provide quality assurance, working with design studio and keyline artists as needed
Adapt creative style to suite a variety of clients’ individual personality/brand needs
Has the ability to render thumbnail sketches and rough presentation layouts
Present work approach/rationale effectively to internal resources and the wider Creative team
Produce sketches & layouts to communicate concepts to internal teams and clients
Solve problems visually, turning ideas into workable concepts across multiple channels
Regularly engage in conceptual brainstorms and idea generation

If interested, please provide a link to your creative portfolio or attachment of creative samples.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Rising Junior, Senior, Recent Graduate, or Creative Bootcamp Grad
GPA: 3.0 or higher
Proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite
Solutions-oriented with critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Strong interpersonal skills, enjoys building relationships and working with others
Proficient in MS Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Strong time and project management skills, comfortable juggling multiple tasks
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Resourceful and a proactive self-starter

And we'd love you to

Have general knowledge of promotional strategies and tactics is preferred
Be interested in Creative Strategy and Planning
General knowledge of print production / production experience in Digital and Traditional processes
Experience in digital/web development is a plus
Works well in a creative team-based environment
Pristine file management habits

If interested, please apply with your resume and we'll send you our quick assessment - a few questions for us to learn a bit more about you. Must include Portfolio or Creative samples.

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