Creative - Art Intern

Merge Storytelling and Technology

We bring together the minds and passions of creative pioneers, tech innovators, and data explorers to help ambitious clients solve business challenges and rise to the top. MERGE has enduring client partnerships with American Express, T-Mobile, Subway, Kate Spade NY, Coach, The North Face, Meta, Adobe, BlueCross BlueShield, Abbott, Astellas, Supernus, CSL, GE Healthcare, Broward Health, Indiana University Health, and Morgan Stanley. With offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Montreal, New York City and Los Angeles. MERGE uses a talent-to-task process that enables clients to think higher and feel deeper about their customers. 

Promote Health, Wellness & Happiness

We are committed to promoting health, wellness and happiness in the world by partnering with purpose-driven clients in purpose-driven industries in healthcare, life science, and consumer products. Our deep vertical expertise and category insights stem from decade-long partnerships with our top clients.

Emerge to the Top of Your Career

At MERGE, we strive to create a superior work experience where talented and ambitious people grow. An experience that encourages people to think higher and feel deeper. An experience where people engage their minds and hearts to do the best work of their careers.

As our Creative (Art) Intern, you will...

Gain real-world brand building experience where you’ll work with seasoned creatives to bring new and existing brands to life across a wide range of mediums and channels. You’ll join a team that cares as much about doing great work as they care about each other. Which means we prioritize developing skills, producing great work, and most importantly — having fun.

What you'll experience:

• Deep Expertise & Broad Exposure: While embedded within a specific department for hands-on, meaningful work, you will also gain broad exposure across the entire agency. This allows you to develop deep functional skills while building a holistic understanding of our service offerings.


• Defining Your Passion: Explore diverse work across the agency to identify your professional passions within the dynamic fields of technology and marketing.


• Core Summer Project: Through your learnings, you and your fellow interns will collaborate on a central project: creating engaging, authentic content that showcases MERGE culture, our innovative work, and our people.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with our creative team to bring innovative concepts to life across traditional, digital, and social channels


• Apply your design skills across a wide range of creative projects — from brand identity work to concepting new ideas to designing pull-through collateral on existing brands 


• Gain a better sense of what life at an agency is like

What we’re looking for: 

• Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Design


• Must be a rising junior, rising senior, or recent graduate from an accredited college/university


• Passionate about learning and growing within the creative department


• Tools - Adobe Suite and Figma, plus but not required 


• A portfolio of work that demonstrates strong design sensibilities and work”


• First Generation college students strongly encouraged to apply


• You must be eligible to work in the United States to be considered for this role

Internship Essentials

• Duration: 10 weeks between June 1, 2026 - August 7, 2026 - Monday - Friday


• Compensation: $20.00/hour


• Location: Boston, MA or Chicago, IL - Hybrid 2 days/week in-office
  
  
  
  • MERGE does not provide any form of housing reimbursement/stipend
  
  
  
  

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And here’s how we live our values at MERGE

• Ability. Mastering our craft


• Agility. Delivering with a growth mindset


• Humility. Collaborating for shared success

MERGE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

MERGE welcomes and celebrates diversity regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or people with abilities. We believe that the more diverse we are, the more creative our work will be!