Brand Intern
Position located in Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)
Summer of 2023 June 5 - August 11
Description
Decoded is looking for interns in multiple departments across our agency for our 2023 Summer Internship Program! As an intern, you will have the opportunity to apply your education to a professional setting while gaining valuable experience and skills. In this role, you will learn and apply our processes, and understand industry best practices and trends. This is an internship for people who are curious about where the world of advertising and marketing is going next, and exploring what's next for themselves. Come explore and experiment across a variety of disciplines that often aren't found under one roof!
Your Role
Brand Interns at Decoded are the backbone of the agency. As a Brand Intern, you will help support our Brand team with various projects. Your team knows your client's business, what's right for it, and helps to guide strategies and solutions to deliver on business and marketing goals. Your understanding of the brand and business is actually why we call ourselves Brand people and not Account people. Because we're just that close to our brands. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial, strategic thinker who wants to work with clients on top-tier brands and has a love of a fast, flexible environment.
Responsibilities
- Support daily and weekly Brand team deliverables including attending status meetings, strategy sessions, creative reviews and client meetings
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain an understanding of the brand team role and other roles throughout the agency
- Analyze data and assist in creating insights and recommendations based on the work and client and agency goals
- Work with cross-functional teams to package client presentations
- Assist with call reports and pitch research
- Contribute to the culture of Decoded by being curious, thoughtful, and fearless
Desired Skills & Experience
- Pursuing a bachelor's degree, preferably with a concentration in marketing or advertising
- Must be a rising junior / senior, recent graduate (or have equivalent experience)
- Ability to work in a team environment as well as work independently
- Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple projects and tasks
- Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form
- Very attentive to detail and highly organized
- Strong people skills - good at building relationships, comfortable conversationalist, empathetic
- Quick learner and inherently curious about marketing, human behavior, creative, production, business, etc
- Very accountable and committed to getting the job done
Compensation: Paid Internship, $18/hr
About Decoded
Decoded is a full-service marketing, advertising, and design company of 200 people. Decoded creates breakthrough campaigns that make brands perform. Challenging convention took the best talent from strategy, creative, media, design, and the DTC world and put together a new way of working to bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimizations, and commerce. Decoded services global clients like T-Mobile, Intuit, Hulu, Estée Lauder Co., Visa, and Uber from our New York and Los Angeles offices.
Values
MISFITS WELCOME.
We don't want more of us, we need more of you. Because building something new requires new inputs, perspectives, personalities, skill sets. Helmets available upon request.
STAY CURIOUS.
Adventures don't start with answers. We move forward by questioning, wondering and learning. We ask "why" and "what if." Together, we'll discover what's next for creativity, media and marketing.
BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL.
Innovation requires experimentation. Experimentation relishes failure. With a bias toward action, leaps of faith and even some discomfort, chase down ideas, try new things – we got you.
IDEAS OVER EGOS.
In order to uncover what works, we need to make. A lot. So we put ideas above all else: titles, egos, pedigree be damned. We all work in service of great ideas.
TAKE PRIDE IN EVERYTHING YOU.
This is our company. Everything you do represents all of us. Obsess the details, sweat the charts, invest in your ideas. Let's build something to be proud of, piece by piece.