Advertising PM Intern: Hands-on Experience & Growth

tombrascareers; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Tombras, a leading advertising agency in Knoxville, TN, is seeking a Project Management Intern to support PMs, coordinate meetings, and manage project data in a fast-paced creative environment.

You will assist with work orders, scheduling, data entry, asset delivery, and weekly scrum participation, gaining exposure to client services, production, and budgeting processes. This paid internship runs 8.5 weeks at 18 USD/hour, with up to 25 hours per week, starting 9/23/26.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have prior work or life experience in a relevant field, be currently enrolled as a Senior in a Bachelor’s program, or a recent graduate with a major in Media, Marketing, Advertising, or similar field (a degree is not required)
• A passion for advertising and an eagerness to tell a story and a gift for making people see it

Responsibilities

• Assist Project Managers with processing work orders, allocating resources, and distributing to creative team members
• Schedule kick-off meetings, creative check-ins, input meetings, pre-production meetings, and internal reviews
• Data entry including updating team schedules, estimates, timelines, and purchase orders
• Work with the video department to secure shoot dates and document details, including shot lists and budgets, in tickets
• Route and follow up on rough video edits
• Participate in weekly scrum and status meetings
• Coordinate with internal workgroups to obtain information and content/production assets as needed
• Verify sizes, specs, platforms, and due dates with Account Service and Media teams
• Deliver and/or traffic assets to Account and Media teams
• Pull time on open projects and flag potential overages to Project Managers
• Pull closed jobs and summarize estimates versus actuals as needed

Job description

Tombras, a leading advertising agency in Knoxville, TN, is seeking a Project Management Intern to support PMs, coordinate meetings, and manage project data in a fast-paced creative environment.

You will assist with work orders, scheduling, data entry, asset delivery, and weekly scrum participation, gaining exposure to client services, production, and budgeting processes. This paid internship runs 8.5 weeks at 18 USD/hour, with up to 25 hours per week, starting 9/23/26.