Creative Strategist Intern- Summer 2026

Pittsburgh, PA (On-site)

$19/hr – $29/hrIntern/New GradInternship

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Assist in shaping creative briefs, insights, and content strategy for experiential marketing projects as an internship at Deeplocal.

  • Assist in crafting creative briefs and supporting concepting through content creation.
  • Must-have: Exceptional writing and collaboration skills.
  • Standout: Ability to translate research into actionable creative strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Creative Briefs - Assist in creating creative briefs and participating in conversations with clients to help extract the necessary information for our internal teams to be successful creatively. Briefs can span all phases of project work from concepting through content creation.
  • Insight Development - Support creative concept development by conducting market and industry analysis, cultural trend research, and audience research to provide essential insights for brand comprehension.
  • Persona Development - Collaborate with Experience Designers to define personas and user groups. This includes conducting secondary research as needed to understand user demographics, motivations, needs, and pain points within a given space.
  • User Journey Development - Partner with Experience Designers to help develop user journeys of a space; thinking about how guests and users move through a space and how to arrange brand messaging in a way that makes sense from a storytelling and experience design strategy.
  • Content Strategy Development - Assist in developing the overall content and messaging strategy. When required, contribute to writing the final copy.
  • Proofreading - Ensure decks and content are meticulously reviewed and proofread for accuracy and error-free presentation.

Requirements

  • Exceptional writing ability with a keen sense for capturing appropriate storytelling, tone and ideas.
  • Must have excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • Interest in a combination of strategy and design, developing a holistic narrative vision for a space.
  • Knowledge of current social media best practices and key platforms, in addition to prior experience developing and executing social media strategies.
  • An awareness of current aesthetic, cultural, and popular trends
  • Ability to conduct research, including market, trend, and competitive analysis. Capable of interpreting data and translating findings into clear, actionable insights to assist with creative strategy and help inform decision-making.
  • A strong understanding of marketing.

Preferred

  • Experience crafting creative concepts in response to marketing briefs would be a bonus.
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Deeplocal

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Deeplocal creates and builds experiences that help brands tell their stories and connect with their audiences in new, unexpected ways. We work in both digital and physical disciplines, though our projects find all kinds of ways to dissolve the boundaries between the two. Everything we do is rooted in culture and faithful to strategic insights about our audience. We want to get them talking about something amazing they’ve experienced—not about an advertising campaign.Our team is comprised of creatives, marketers, strategists, technologists, engineers (mechanical, electrical, robotic, and software) and artists. Whether we’re making robots, software or socks, we do the vast majority of our production in house. This allows us to be nimble in our process and give our clients excellent visibility into each project, from start to finish.We power our work with Gumband, the first operating system created for interactive experiences. Built by Deeplocal, this cloud-based platform lets brands manage all aspects of their interactive spaces from anywhere. Our clients can update content any time and measure real-world engagement in a way previously only available in digital marketing. Learn more at gumband.com.

Founded in 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
71 employees (34 in marketing)
50% recommend to a friend
47% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.9%
Direct
56.2%
Referral
5.5%
Social
7.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~71

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (18% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$175K
Last Raise
$175K
Convertible Note, 16 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2010
    Convertible Note • $175K