BRAND BUILDERS LAB: STRATEGIST

Jumpstart your advertising career with the Motive BRAND BUILDERS LAB! 

This is more than an internship—it's a fast-paced, full-time, train-to-hire experience where you’ll dive headfirst into the exciting world of advertising and marketing. Over the course of the program, you’ll gain hands-on, mentored experience, all while contributing to real client work. Midway through, you’ll team up with other Brand Builder Interns to tackle an actual innovation brief—brainstorming big ideas, shaping strategy, building a killer deck, and presenting your solution to industry pros. 

Builders will be embedded within one of five departments— Creative, Digital Innovation, Content, Brand Experience or Strategy—while also engaging in cross-functional learning, mentorship, and agency-wide collaboration. This is your chance to pitch ideas, join brainstorms, shadow leaders, and contribute to the work we put out into the world. 

With dedicated training, daily support, and the chance for full-time employment at the finish line, this is your launchpad into the agency world. Let’s build your brand—and ours—together.

BRAND BUILDERS LAB: STRATEGY BUILDER POSITION

Accepting applicants still in school or recent graduates looking for a permanent position. Also accepting applicants with real-world experience looking to break into the industry. This is a paid internship for the months of June, July and August, 2025.

What Makes You A Great Fit? 

• You have a deep-rooted passion for brands and can talk for days about your favorite creative campaigns.


• You love culture. You are an active participant in conversations shaping our daily lives.


• You love to write. You love to edit your words to be descriptive and succinct.


• You seek to understand people and like thinking about what motivates their behaviors, especially in relation to brands.


• You love working with others and hearing their point of view. If you believe in an idea, you advocate for your way of thinking.

Key Areas For You To Excel

• You will be thinking about the world with a critical eye, and looking for succinct solutions to big problems.


• You will help us find cultural insights and human truths that inspire great creative work.


• You have the confidence and charisma to present research, insights, and strategy.

Candidate Requirements

• An excitement and curiosity to learn.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a great attention to detail.


• A strong 'self-starter' mentality who is proactive with a sense of responsibility.


• Able to work at least 30 hours per week for a 12-week period (preference for 40 hours).

Motive is an equal opportunity employer! We believe that a diverse team makes us stronger and smarter.

Motive recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Motive has a clear vision: to be a creative leader where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We know our company succeeds only through the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.