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Integrated Marketing Intern

STIR is looking for an Integrated Marketing Intern.

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We’re looking for an integrated marketing Intern who wants real experience across the full earned-and-paid media mix. You’ll support our media relations work (building lists, researching reporters, drafting pitches, tracking coverage) and sit alongside the team running organic social and paid media campaigns for our clients, learning how a news pitch to a reporter and a paid placement on the same topic reinforce each other. You’ll work across multiple client accounts with a front-row seat to how a mid-size integrated agency operates.

About STIR

STIR Advertising & Integrated Messaging is a full-service, Milwaukee-based marketing agency built around the full integration of earned media, social, paid media and creative work. We’re nearly a year into new ownership under Rick Stoner, building on STIR’s 25-year track record while sharpening the way the agency works day-to-day.

Our client roster is a mix of consumer and business-to-business. On any given week, you may draft a news pitch for a dairy farm, write a member spotlight for a trade union, compile a monthly coverage report, or help set up and analyze a paid media campaign. An intern here sees how the same earned-media, social and paid media thinking gets applied across construction, healthcare, agriculture, nonprofit work and food & beverage.

Responsibilities:

Public Relations

  • Conduct client research; build media lists by beat, market and outlet
  • Develop story ideas and identify timely angles for news pitches
  • Draft pitch emails, press releases and media alerts for review
  • Monitor news and coverage and compile reports

Social Media

  • Research and develop social content
  • Help with competitor audits and trend research
  • Help set up, monitor and optimize paid social and other paid media campaigns
  • Pull performance data and help build client-facing reporting
  • Keep content calendars current across multiple accounts

Paid Digital Media

  • Support digital advertising campaigns across search, social, video, and programmatic platforms with monitoring, creative coordination, testing and quality assurance
  • Help monitor campaign budgets, pacing and performance
  • Assist with marketing analytics, performance dashboards, conversion tracking, and campaign reporting

Content Creation

  • Help write case studies, blog posts, and other content for STIR’s own marketing
  • Research industry awards and help draft award submissions by gathering project details and client results

Agency Operations

  • Help integrate AI tools into how we manage client accounts
  • Research tools and processes that help the team work more efficiently and support implementation

Qualifications

  • A junior, senior or recent graduate in public relations, communications, journalism, marketing or advertising
  • Strong writer and editor
  • Comfortable on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok as a user; exposure to scheduling tools or paid media ad platforms is a plus
  • Organization skills and ability to multi-task and problem-solve
  • Interest in digital marketing, analytics and emerging technologies
  • Curious, proactive and willing to ask questions rather than guess
  • Optional: interest and ability in photography/videography

Details & How to Apply

  • Term: Semester-long, part-time, flexible around class schedule (roughly 10–20 hours/week)
  • Pay: Paid, hourly
  • Location: STIR’s Milwaukee office. This is an in-office position with some remote flexibility.

To apply: Send a resume, brief cover letter and 2 writing and social samples to V.P. Earned Media, Christel Henke.