Verbal Identity Fellow

About Interbrand

Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.

To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.

Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.

In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.

The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.

Our Behaviours

Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.  

We want to inspire you, and for you to inspire us as part of your journey at Interbrand. 

Your passion for branding and curiosity has led you to Interbrand. You have strong strategic abilities that you can pair with creativity to solve big challenges and help grow the largest brands and businesses in the world. At Interbrand, you will create iconic work that defines customer expectations across the globe and creates growth for all. 

Are you our next Verbal Identity Fellow?  

We are looking for future industry superstars to join our growing studio. The Verbal Identity Fellow will think like a “verbal sponge.” A positive, vocal, hard-working recent graduate to join our studio, with energy to bounce from project to project as you support verbalists and are exposed to all aspects of the design process. 

Our Fellow roles are full-time, fully integrated positions. They are onboarded and assigned a manager, and are resourced to client work. It is set up as a 3 month contract to start, paid hourly, with the possibility of extending and/or converting to a salaried employee position. 

The role  

We're looking for a creative & and strategic individual who has the versatility to connect the dots between details and big-picture thinking.  

Ideally, you’re someone who can quickly make sense of complex information, distilling it down to the essential components that are needed to develop ownable names, create naming strategies, and turn strategy into storytelling.  

We’d love someone who is excited about everything to do with words. Someone who knows how to write well, and how to think and talk about how their writing fits into the broader world of strategy and design. Someone who loves to conduct research & analyze word choices and who wants to work on brands from any and every industry, from telecommunications to eyewear. 

Your Day To Day  

The Role 

• Understand clients’ businesses and use that understanding to create effective work 
• Support project leads in performing research, generating creative content (names, taglines, etc.), and building presentations 
• Contribute to projects in all verbal practices: naming, voice, messaging, and content strategy, and content creation 
• Work with strategists, designers, client managers, and more to prepare client presentations  

What We're Looking For 

• 0 -1 year of professional experience; branding or marketing agency experience is a plus (Internships count!) 
• Study/experience/degree in a related field; we have a broad definition of "related," including any verbal-focused or writing-intensive field like linguistics, creative writing, advertising, English literature, philosophy etc. 
• Strong verbal, organizational, and time management skills 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; PowerPoint is a plus
• Knowledge of foreign languages a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively to find insights and develop new ideas
• Ability to consistently deliver quality creative
• Critical thinking, especially the ability to critique and discuss your own work and the work of others
• Enthusiastic and eager to learn
• Strong work ethic  

NOTE: This is a hybrid role and requires you to be in our NYC office 3 days per week  

Compensation  

• Hourly rate of $30/hour 
• This range represents the low and high end of the hourly salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Interbrand in the United States. Rates will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire. 

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