As a Marketing Intern, you will support campaign activations, analyze marketing performance, draft communications, and participate in professional development activities.
Internship candidates can expect a full-time, onsite internship program, running from June 1st, 2026, to August 7th, 2026.
Carefully selected from universities across the country, our interns bring distinctive ideas and perspectives to our organization. Our employees are passionate about building our emerging talent and future leaders. After application and initial screening conversation, interns are aligned interview and be hired to a specific team at NM based on their abilities and interests, providing exposure to real-world business perspectives through hands-on learning and significant work. In addition to their day-to-day tasks, interns participate in professional development workshops, senior leadership Q&A's, volunteer initiatives, networking/social events, and more!
Marketing Internships
As a Marketing Intern, you'll work alongside your hiring manager, mentor, and team to complete tasks critical for Northwestern Mutual's success. We are here to help you both identify and continue to develop your future career goals and passions. See below for our current list of internship opportunities available in our Marketing department:
This intern will support our campaign activations -- analyzing marketing channels, assets and performance; website auditing, approach/layout recommendations and implementation; drafting communications (articles, web internal web content), working across marketing teams to learn about marketing offerings and our distribution system. Possibility for additional brand work based on intern's capacity and interests - i.e. supporting partnerships, specific consumer segments, brand strategy work, etc.
This intern will help Northwestern Mutual understand new ways (channels, messaging, approached, influencers) to attract likely candidates to a role in financial services/financial advisory. The remaining time will be spent identifying, surfacing up, sharing competitive and category alerts that could be important for our business to understand more deeply.
This intern will help support social content creation, update calendars, documents and reporting, support key digital marketing web projects and special projects such as driving field activation of social and other tools. Additional projects may include supporting reporting and web analytics, paid media operations and landing page creation in CMS.
Bring Your Best! What this role needs. Minimum qualifications:
Preferred skills and proficiencies
Next steps
We encourage you to apply! Once your application is reviewed, if selected to move forward, our HR team members will reach out for a call, where we will learn more about you and share internship opportunities aligning to your interests and skillsets and share any next steps of our recruiting process.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$16.50
Pay Range - End:
$30.00
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. Internship salaries are determined based on academic tenure and major. The standard pay structure is listed.
Build a strong career foundation with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
Carefully selected from universities across the country, our interns bring distinctive ideas and perspectives to our organization. Our employees are passionate about building our emerging talent and future leaders. After application and initial screening conversation, interns are aligned interview and be hired to a specific team at NM based on their abilities and interests, providing exposure to real-world business perspectives through hands-on learning and significant work. In addition to their day-to-day tasks, interns participate in professional development workshops, senior leadership Q&A's, volunteer initiatives, networking/social events, and more!
Marketing Internships
As a Marketing Intern, you'll work alongside your hiring manager, mentor, and team to complete tasks critical for Northwestern Mutual's success. We are here to help you both identify and continue to develop your future career goals and passions. See below for our current list of internship opportunities available in our Marketing department:
- Brand & Field Marketing Internship
This intern will support our campaign activations -- analyzing marketing channels, assets and performance; website auditing, approach/layout recommendations and implementation; drafting communications (articles, web internal web content), working across marketing teams to learn about marketing offerings and our distribution system. Possibility for additional brand work based on intern's capacity and interests - i.e. supporting partnerships, specific consumer segments, brand strategy work, etc.
- Consumer Insights Internship
This intern will help Northwestern Mutual understand new ways (channels, messaging, approached, influencers) to attract likely candidates to a role in financial services/financial advisory. The remaining time will be spent identifying, surfacing up, sharing competitive and category alerts that could be important for our business to understand more deeply.
- Content & Client Marketing Internship This intern will support the thought leadership and content team in developing and producing branded content for consumers and financial representatives. Projects may include research and strategy for addressing key content and consumer trends, analysis of performance metrics, production support (articles, videos, graphics, podcast, newsletter, etc.) and project management.
- Digital Marketing Internship
This intern will help support social content creation, update calendars, documents and reporting, support key digital marketing web projects and special projects such as driving field activation of social and other tools. Additional projects may include supporting reporting and web analytics, paid media operations and landing page creation in CMS.
Bring Your Best! What this role needs. Minimum qualifications:
- Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Analytics, or related field from an accredited college or university
- Expecting to graduate in December 2027 or later
- Previous work or classroom experience in one or more of the following: Marketing, Business
- Employer immigration sponsorship is not available for this role
Preferred skills and proficiencies
- Previous Marketing and Business Analytics internship and/or relevant project experience.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving ability.
- High degree of self-motivation, passion, and a strive to learn.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities.
Next steps
We encourage you to apply! Once your application is reviewed, if selected to move forward, our HR team members will reach out for a call, where we will learn more about you and share internship opportunities aligning to your interests and skillsets and share any next steps of our recruiting process.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$16.50
Pay Range - End:
$30.00
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. Internship salaries are determined based on academic tenure and major. The standard pay structure is listed.
Build a strong career foundation with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
Top Skills
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