Transparent Partners
Transparent Partners
Posted 4 days ago
Internship
Chicago, Illinois
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Responsibilities
Support client engagements by conducting current-state research, documenting workflows, and distilling findings into actionable strategic insights. Assist in developing client deliverables and evaluating the integration of AI tools within marketing operations.
Qualifications
You are a rising senior pursuing a degree in marketing, business, data, communications, or a related field. You possess strong written communication skills and are comfortable with critical thinking, asking 'why,' and driving projects forward with initiative.
Must Have Skills for ATS
AI
Data Analysis
Marketing Technology
Process Documentation
Client Deliverables
Research
Measurement
Analytics
Project Management
Job Description
Transparent Partners is an independent consultancy that specializes in enhancing customer experiences through a marketing lens. Our goal is to identify the unique mix of data, technology and operational processes that will empower brands to thrive in the ever changing marketing landscape.
This summer, you'll work on things that actually matter to clients.
Not hypotheticals. Not a project invented to keep an intern busy. You'll be embedded in active engagements, helping teams understand how their marketing data gets used, where their operations break down, and what AI might actually change about how they work.
At Transparent Partners, strategy, data, and technology aren't separate departments. They're different lenses on the same problem. As a Strategy & Services Intern, you'll move between all three and start to see how they connect.
\nThe WorkYou'll support real client engagements across strategy, measurement, data, and marketing technology. That means different things on different days.
Some days you're in discovery mode, listening to how a team operates, documenting current-state processes, and capturing stakeholder perspectives. The output isn't just notes. It's organized, usable material the team can actually build from.
Some days you're in synthesis mode, working through research, client artifacts, and data to find the patterns that matter. You're expected to distill, not just summarize. The difference is a point of view.
Some days you're building, drafting sections of client deliverables, developing frameworks, and supporting analysis. You'll own specific components of real outputs, not supporting tasks that orbit the real work.
More specifically, you will:
Conduct current-state research and assessments of how clients use data, marketing technology, and operational processes
Document workflows, decision-making structures, and process gaps through stakeholder interviews and artifact review
Distill findings from discovery, interviews, client documents, platform audits, into organized themes and actionable insights
Support the development of client-facing deliverables including presentations, project roadmaps, process documentation, and strategic recommendations
Conduct industry and competitive research, leveraging all available resources to build a working understanding of relevant markets, tools, and trends
Assist in building gap analyses that identify opportunities and outline a recommended path forward
Contribute to measurement and analytics work, including supporting data strategy assessments and helping translate findings into clear implications
Support evaluation of marketing technology ecosystems, identifying opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or improve how platforms are used
Help monitor project pacing, flag risks, and support internal coordination across workstreams
Contribute to internal initiatives, including knowledge-building, operational improvements, and team documentation
A meaningful part of this role is helping us, and our clients, figure out how AI actually fits into the work. You don't need to arrive as an expert. You need to arrive curious.
Use AI tools actively in your day-to-day work, not as a novelty, but as a real part of how you get things done
Evaluate where AI adds genuine value and where it falls short, and be honest about the difference
Contribute to how we build and test AI-enabled approaches for client engagements
Help document what's working so the team can learn from it and build on it
A rising senior pursuing a degree in marketing, business, data, communications, or a related field
Some exposure to consulting, client services, analytics, or marketing through coursework, internships, or project work, not required, but meaningful
Strong written communication skills, you can take a messy set of inputs and produce something coherent, organized, and clear
Someone who asks 'why does this work this way?' and actually follows through until they get a real answer
Comfortable moving forward when you don't have all the information yet, you make reasonable assumptions, flag them, and keep going
Curious about AI, not just as a user but as someone who thinks critically about where it helps and where it doesn't
Accountable and proactive, you follow through on what you say you'll do, and you don't wait to be reminded
Collaborative without being passive, you contribute your own thinking, not just what you think people want to hear
Your work is accurate, clear, and lands on time
People start pulling you in earlier, because you've shown you can contribute, not just execute
Your questions make the work better
You're using AI in real, useful ways, not just as a shortcut
You’ll close out the summer by walking the full team through something you built and owning the thinking behind it.
Our people and culture
At Transparent our goal is to promote an inclusive, equitable, and diverse environment to foster a sense of belonging. We believe that creating an inclusive environment is paramount in driving innovation, creativity and value for our clients and our people. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, or social background.
Transparent Media Partners, LLC is an Equal Opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen on the basis of ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status or sexual orientation, in accordance with federal and state law.
If there are any further questions, please contact: careers@transparent.partners
Transparent Partners
Consumer Connection Starts with Transparency. Transforming into a data-driven organization is highly complex and presents many challenges along the way. We help teams across marketing, sales, product, data and technology work better together to unlock the full potential of their consumer data, accelerate progress in achieving their business goals, and demonstrate success. To learn more, please visit our website, at https://www.transparent.partners/ or reach out directly at info@transparent.partners.
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