Account Strategy Intern

The Shipyard • Columbus, OH

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Shipyard is seeking a curious, motivated Account Strategy Intern to join its Columbus, Ohio team. This paid internship offers hands-on experience in agency strategy, including client and category audits, cultural trend tracking, research support, and creating tools for the Account Strategy team. The intern will be dedicated to the Account Strategy department and assigned a supervisor who provides general guidance and mentorship. The role also offers opportunities to learn how the agency works cross-functionally and explore different parts of an advertising agency.

This is a hybrid work-from-home and office position requiring in-office attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Candidates must live near Columbus, Ohio. The internship is part-time, 20–24 hours per week, and pays $18 per hour. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship and have a high school diploma or GED.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Must live near Columbus, Ohio.

Responsibilities

• Assess clients, their businesses, competitors, categories, and surrounding macro-cultural forces to support new business and active accounts.
• Track cultural and consumer trends beyond client work and share findings with the team regularly.
• Support active research projects by coordinating timelines, briefs, fieldwork, and synthesis of findings.
• Organize research vendor relationships, track scopes, schedules, and deliverables, and serve as the day-to-day contact.
• Build and maintain a repository of workshop exercises and strategy deck examples.
• Develop case studies from past strategy work for new business use.
• Create Claude Skills tailored to team workflows and distribute them to the department.
• Synthesize findings into actionable insights and communicate strategy work through case studies.
• Organize department knowledge so the team's work is easy to find and reuse.

Benefits

• Paid internship at $18 per hour.
• Supervisor-provided general guidance and mentorship.
• Hands-on agency strategy experience and opportunities to learn about cross-functional agency work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: High school or GED