Creative Intern – Creative Strategy, Content

Job Description

Social Copywriting Intern | Morning Walk

The Tone:
This is an internship at Morning Walk, located in Chicago, IL. Morning Walk specializes in building Performance Branding Ecosystems that effectively translate brand creativity into measurable business outcomes, focusing on both emotional impact and concrete results. As a nationally recognized firm with Midwest roots, they work with household names to deliver high-quality, impactful campaigns. This role is crucial for a curious, creative thinker eager to contribute to real client projects, learning what it truly takes to craft compelling brand communication in today’s dynamic landscape.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time or 3 days per week (flexible)
• Location: In-person, Chicago, IL
• Pay: $16.60 hourly
• Team: Works directly with senior creatives, strategists, writers, designers, and account teams on client projects.
• Mission: To contribute to social content, copywriting, research, and creative strategy, from early concepting through execution, impacting how brands communicate.
• Tech Stack: AI tools (for ideation, copywriting, research, content development)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Content Development: Support the concepting, copywriting, and content creation for social, digital, and campaign initiatives.
• Copywriting: Craft platform-native copy that aligns with various brand tones and formats for diverse client needs.
• Research & Analysis: Research audiences, cultural trends, competitors, creators, and emerging platforms, including tracking cultural signals and content behaviors.
• Creative Contribution: Contribute ideas during brainstorms and creative reviews, helping to build presentations and internal creative materials.
• AI Experimentation: Experiment with and apply AI tools to enhance ideation, copywriting, research, and content development processes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A student with a keen interest in the intersection of social content, copywriting, research, and creative strategy, ready to learn how brands communicate effectively.
• Experience: Demonstrable awareness of current social platforms, creator culture, and internet behaviors, including an understanding of how ideas spread and stick.
• Skills: Strong writing ability with an innate instinct for appropriate tone, voice, and clarity; the capacity to identify patterns in culture beyond surface-level trends; comfort working independently and proactively; a genuine interest in understanding how creative strategy and execution connect; and a willingness to experiment with AI tools as part of the creative process.
• Bonus: Experience having made things yourself, such as personal content, written pieces, social media pages, student projects, or freelance work, demonstrating initiative and creative output.