Verbal Identity Fellow

We want to inspire you, and for you to inspire us as part of your journey at Interbrand.

Your passion for branding and curiosity has led you to Interbrand. You have strong strategic abilities that you can pair with creativity to solve big challenges and help grow the largest brands and businesses in the world. At Interbrand, you will create iconic work that defines customer expectations across the globe and creates growth for all.

Are you our next Verbal Identity Fellow? We are looking for future industry superstars to join our growing studio. The Verbal Identity Fellow will think like a “verbal sponge.” A positive, vocal, hard-working recent graduate to join our studio, with energy to bounce from project to project as you support verbalists and are exposed to all aspects of the design process.

Our Fellow roles are full-time, fully integrated positions. They are onboarded and assigned a manager, and are resourced to client work. It is set up as a 3 month contract to start, paid hourly, with the possibility of extending and/or converting to a salaried employee position.

We're looking for a creative & and strategic individual who has the versatility to connect the dots between details and big-picture thinking.

Ideally, you’re someone who can quickly make sense of complex information, distilling it down to the essential components that are needed to develop ownable names, create naming strategies, and turn strategy into storytelling.

We’d love someone who is excited about everything to do with words. Someone who knows how to write well, and how to think and talk about how their writing fits into the broader world of strategy and design. Someone who loves to conduct research & analyze word choices and who wants to work on brands from any and every industry, from telecommunications to eyewear.

• Understand clients’ businesses and use that understanding to create effective work

• Support project leads in performing research, generating creative content (names, taglines, etc.), and building presentations

• Contribute to projects in all verbal practices: naming, voice, messaging, and content strategy, and content creation

• Work with strategists, designers, client managers, and more to prepare client presentations

• 0 -1 year of professional experience; branding or marketing agency experience is a plus (Internships count!)

• Study/experience/degree in a related field; we have a broad definition of "related," including any verbal-focused or writing-intensive field like linguistics, creative writing, advertising, English literature, philosophy etc.

• Ability to work collaboratively to find insights and develop new ideas

• Critical thinking, especially the ability to critique and discuss your own work and the work of others