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Marketing Intern | Summer 2025

DLR Group
Internship
On-site
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$18 - $20 USD yearly

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

We have an opening for a Marketing Intern. We currently operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home. Considering this model, this role could be based in the following cities:

  • Denver 
  • Chicago 
  • Riverside 

About EPX at DLR Group 
Each person who works at DLR Group has a design voice, and we can’t wait to help you define and amplify yours. Whether it’s through a design charrette, a client meeting, an internal project review, or working through a building detail, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts (ha!) of putting together a building, while being part of something larger than yourself. You will gain experience on projects large and small, in various phases of construction. We also hope to give you experiences outside of the typical internship in your discipline – from helping on a business development or marketing pursuit, planning an event for your office, or sharing your ideas on what the future of design services looks like. 

Position Summary 

DLR Group’s Campus team, comprised of our Higher Education, Healthcare, Sports, and Cultural+Performing Arts sectors, has an opening for a Marketing Intern. This individual   will collaborate within a dynamic, multidisciplinary team, gaining hands-on experience while supporting the sectors’ marketing and public relations efforts. As an integral part of our integrated marketing and brand strategy, they will engage in a well-rounded role that fosters growth and creativity.  

Our Emerging Professionals Experience (EPX) internship program is a paid, full-time, hybrid opportunity running from May 20 through August 8, 2025. Interns are expected to participate for the full duration of the program. This is a valuable opportunity to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact by contributing your design voice to our brand promise of Elevating the Human Experience. 

What You Will do:

  • Support Marketing Efforts: Assist in copywriting and copyediting on-brand project narratives, employee bios for new hire staff, a variety of original website content, and social media captions, creating and updating employee resumes, and asset management of project photography. 
  • Support Public Relations Efforts: Assist in crafting press materials, including press releases, pitches, a variety of original website content, fact sheets, and media lists.  
  • Updating Company Details in CRM: Maintain accurate company details in Vantagepoint Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database, ensuring all information is current. 

Required Qualifications: 

  • Enrolled in a Bachelor of Marketing, English, Journalism, Public Relations, Communications, or similar major.
  • Highly effective writer capable of producing succinct, key messages, responsive to the audience.
  • Collaborative, strong communicator able to work with a wide spectrum of personalities.
  • Self-starter who can calmly manage multiple projects and produce high-quality materials under concurrent deadlines.
  • Strong GPA and student organization involvement considered.
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship. 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite and asynchronous collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite (particularly InDesign)
  • Experience writing original content such as blog posts and thought leadership pieces
  • Passionate about the built environment and the impact it has on people. 

 

*TO BE CONSIDERED, PLEASE SUBMIT A RESUME, COVER LETTER, AND WRITING SAMPLE PREFERABLY IN PDF FORMAT* 

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range

$18 - $20 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.