2025 Summer Internships

Applications Close January 24th, 2025

Inside the application, please select one of the following internships: Creative Design Internship, Creative Copywriter Internship, Organic Social Media Content and Strategy Internship or TorchHouse Studio Internship.

What You Can Expect

At Walz Tetrick Advertising, we work every day to foster a culture of understanding and belonging where everyone is celebrated for their unique qualities. In a world of constant change, we aim to create a space where everyone feels respected and valued for who they are.

We’re thrilled to offer several exciting summer internship opportunities designed to spark fresh ideas and bold thinking. If you’re eager to gain hands-on experience working on real client projects and immerse yourself in the fast-paced world of advertising, we encourage you to apply!

Our interns are fully immersed in agency life. You’ll participate in client and team meetings, go on educational field trips, and contribute to a variety of client projects. No coffee or dry cleaning runs here—just real work that helps you build your skills and improve your resume.

Interns are paid $15 per hour and work 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., three days a week, with Tuesdays and Fridays off. The internship runs from June 2 through July 31, 2025. To thrive in this program, you should be a team player, eager to learn, and ready to go above and beyond.

Jumpstart your career this summer with an incredible internship experience at Walz Tetrick Advertising. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring to the team!

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite with the ability to create and design in a wide variety of media. You will collaborate and assist other designers on their projects
• Select, retouch and manipulate images
• Lay out designs for all forms of media
• Help brainstorm creative concepts to execute the Creative Brief 
• Assist art directors and copywriters with creative presentations
• Must be detail oriented 
• Must thrive in a team environment, be eager to learn and willing to go above and beyond 
• PDF or link to portfolio required with application

• Collaborate with art directors, editors and creative mentors to generate concepts
• Write copy for a variety of media, including organic and paid social, digital, print, radio and video
• Expand ideas and execute across media
• Deliver accurate, error-free copy under tight deadlines
• Must be detail oriented
• Must thrive in a team environment, be eager to learn and willing to go above and beyond 
• PDF or link to writing samples and/or student portfolio required with application

• Assist in crafting engaging social media posts, including copywriting, image selection, and scheduling across various platforms.
• Help monitor and engage with comments, messages, and mentions to foster meaningful interactions and build brand loyalty.
• Learn how to track performance metrics, compile insights, and present findings to help optimize social media strategies.
• Stay up to date with social media trends, platform updates, and best practices to inform content strategies.
• Collaborate with the team to brainstorm and execute creative campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and objectives.
• Excellent communication and writing skills

• Learn collaborative workflow processes from concept to production in a photo, video and social content context 
• Work in tandem with producer, content strategist, photographer, videographer and editor during shoots, planning the pre-production phases and wrap processes during post-production
• Learn to bid and produce a job from start to finish
• Must have knowledge of both video and still photography (work samples preferred upon application)
• Must have working knowledge of AI process and tools used in content creation and editing 
• Willing to go the extra mile, not allowing any work to be beneath you
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word) and Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Photoshop, Acrobat, Lightroom, Editing Software, etc.)
• Must be able to work well in a fast-paced, creative environment

About Walz Tetrick Advertising

Walz Tetrick is a full-service marketing, creative and media agency in Kansas City. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce named Walz Tetrick one of its Top 10 Small Businesses in 2022, honoring our resilience, innovation and values. Though we’ve been around since 1967, we approach every opportunity with the same zeal we did when we were just getting started. We look for associates, partners and clients who share that enthusiasm and appreciate our all-in approach to brand activation. With each day, we harness more tools and information to illuminate our way.

Walz Tetrick offers an office culture like no other. CEO Charlie Tetrick values his employees and creates a uniquely positive and supportive culture. We work and play as a family. Our current work hours are “in office” Monday, Wednesday and Thursday with an option to “work from anywhere” Tuesday and Friday.

We’re proud of our strong benefits package that includes a 401(k) with an employer match, long-term disability and dental insurance. We offer excellent health insurance, and the agency pays 90 percent of the employees’ premiums with an option to add a spouse and family. We have a generous paid time off policy that includes days to volunteer at a charity of your choice.

If you’re passionate, strategic, collaborative and kind, with a dose of scrappy thrown in, we want to meet you.

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