2026 Consulting Strategy & Professional… at Transparent… · Chicago

Summary: Transparent Partners is an independent consultancy that specializes in enhancing customer experiences through a marketing lens. As a Strategy & Services Intern, you'll support real client engagements across strategy, measurement, data, and marketing technology, contributing to meaningful projects that impact clients directly. Responsibilities: - Conduct current-state research and assessments of how clients use data, marketing technology, and operational processes - Document workflows, decision-making structures, and process gaps through stakeholder interviews and artifact review - Distill findings from discovery, interviews, client documents, platform audits, into organized themes and actionable insights - Support the development of client-facing deliverables including presentations, project roadmaps, process documentation, and strategic recommendations - Conduct industry and competitive research, leveraging all available resources to build a working understanding of relevant markets, tools, and trends - Assist in building gap analyses that identify opportunities and outline a recommended path forward - Contribute to measurement and analytics work, including supporting data strategy assessments and helping translate findings into clear implications - Support evaluation of marketing technology ecosystems, identifying opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or improve how platforms are used - Help monitor project pacing, flag risks, and support internal coordination across workstreams - Contribute to internal initiatives, including knowledge-building, operational improvements, and team documentation - Use AI tools actively in your day-to-day work, not as a novelty, but as a real part of how you get things done - Evaluate where AI adds genuine value and where it falls short, and be honest about the difference - Contribute to how we build and test AI-enabled approaches for client engagements - Help document what's working so the team can learn from it and build on it Required Qualifications: - A rising senior pursuing a degree in marketing, business, data, communications, or a related field - Strong written communication skills, you can take a messy set of inputs and produce something coherent, organized, and clear - Someone who asks 'why does this work this way?' and actually follows through until they get a real answer - Comfortable moving forward when you don't have all the information yet, you make reasonable assumptions, flag them, and keep going - Curious about AI, not just as a user but as someone who thinks critically about where it helps and where it doesn't - Accountable and proactive, you follow through on what you say you'll do, and you don't wait to be reminded - Collaborative without being passive, you contribute your own thinking, not just what you think people want to hear Preferred Qualifications: - Some exposure to consulting, client services, analytics, or marketing through coursework, internships, or project work, not required, but meaningful Required Skills: Marketing technology, Data analysis, Client services, Consulting, Process documentation, Competitive research, Measurement and analytics Internship Start Date: Start in 2026