Summer 2025 | Paid | Part-Time (with Full-Time Potential) | Hybrid – Richmond, VA

Xponent21 is offering a hands-on, immersive internship for an emerging video editor who’s ready to bring ideas to life across screens, platforms, and media formats. This opportunity is designed for post-graduates or recent grads looking to build real-world experience in a fast-paced agency setting while supporting both client work and Xponent21’s in-house creative initiatives.

As our Summer Creative Media Intern, you’ll play an integral role in producing compelling visual content that fuels both client success and the advancement of Xponent21’s internal initiatives — including Richmond Water, America’s Healthiest City, Channel RVA, and other in-house campaigns and brand efforts. You’ll collaborate closely with our Executive Producer and Creative Director to bring strategic visual stories to life across mediums.

This is a paid, part-time internship based in Richmond with hybrid flexibility. For the right candidate, this role has the potential to evolve into a permanent position on our creative team.

Responsibilities

As an Xponent21 Creative Media Intern, you will:

• Collaborate with the Executive Producer and Creative Director to edit short-form and long-form video content for digital campaigns, social media, internal storytelling, and community-driven projects.
• Participate in pre-production planning, including brainstorming sessions, scriptwriting, storyboarding, and shot list development.
• Capture on-location video and photography at events, content days, and live activations.
• Support visual content needs for both clients and internal brands through basic graphic design, motion graphics, and layout tasks.
• Organize and manage creative assets, ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and deadlines.
• Contribute to creative strategy sessions and participate in client or internal project meetings when applicable.

Requirements

Applicants must provide a portfolio link showcasing original video editing and creative work.

We are seeking candidates who:

• Have earned a bachelor’s degree in film, media production, design, communications, or a related field.
• Are proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Are comfortable with mobile-first tools like CapCut, Canva, and other social media editing platforms.
• Have a strong eye for storytelling, pacing, rhythm, and brand-aligned visual design.
• Are organized, deadline-driven, and able to manage multiple creative projects simultaneously.
• Communicate clearly and professionally, and thrive in collaborative, feedback-rich environments.
• Understand the fundamentals of brand identity and visual consistency across channels.

Bonus Points (Not Required, But Valued)

• Experience with animation, 3D, or motion graphics.
• Familiarity with content creation for nonprofit or community impact campaigns.
• Experience producing content for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, or similar social-first platforms.
• Working knowledge of brand systems or multi-brand asset management.

Xponent21 is seeking a talented Account Strategist to contribute leadership and experience and help clients grow. The Account Strategist is passionate about uncovering business, market and brand insights that shape innovative thinking and drive creative ideas. They will lead the development of brand, marketing, and communications strategies and are responsible for the creation, implementation and measurement of integrated programs. Serving as the point person in leading strategic engagements and ensuring a positive experience for accounts and organizations that rely on Xponent21 for business planning and development of their brand and integrated programs and strategies.

External Responsibilities

• Leads strategic engagements by collaborating closely with the client, conducting research, analyzing research results and forming insights, and developing and presenting strategic brand, marketing and communications recommendations.
• Fosters strong, positive relationships with clients by being proactive, approachable, and responsive to their needs, ensuring confidence in presented strategies and driving long-term partnerships.
• Collects, organizes, and analyzes detailed data and information regarding audience demographics, market and industry trends, products and services, competitors, as well as sales intelligence and results.
• Guides clients in defining their target markets and audiences, as needed, by conducting research, collaborating with the client and applying market segmentation techniques and customer journey mapping.
• Translates research insights into brand, marketing and communications strategies that align with the client’s business objectives.
• Assists in developing effective business proposals for clients.
• Analyzes and resolves account challenges and issues.
• Optimizes account activities to achieve business goals.
• Creates account strategy plans to meet business objectives.

Internal Responsibilities

• Develops integrated programs focused on achieving the client’s business objectives. The Account Strategist details the tactical elements of the program, leverages internal teams to establish clear metrics to measure program performance and develops a detailed report to present/review with clients on a set cadence.
• Manages timelines, logistics, budgets and billing for strategic engagements to ensure milestones are met, execution is flawless and the work is profitable.

Skills Required

• Strategic planning experience focused on building brands, marketing initiatives, and/or creating integrated communications programs.
• Hands-on experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research with a proven ability to identify insights and use them to form strategic brand, marketing and communications recommendations.
• Up-to-date knowledge of digital and mobile marketing and analytics, social media, SEO, content marketing and lead nurturing techniques.
• A solid understanding of business and marketing fundamentals.
• Proven ability to inspire creative teams with clear, insightful, actionable strategies and supporting rationale, and the ability to translate strategic detail into focused creative briefs.
• Excellent client-facing skills; a style that engages the client collaboratively and creates a positive client experience.
• Proven track record in client service; demonstrated success in providing clients with on-strategy work and managing projects to on-time, on-budget completion. Five years minimum of external account management is required.
• Excellent business and sales writing skills; experience writing conference briefs, proposals, strategy documents, communications plans, and presentation talking points.
• Strong verbal presentation skills; experience presenting to senior-level decision makers with an ability to win confidence and their business.

Desired Skills

• Proven experience in leveraging SEO to drive business growth by increasing organic traffic, improving conversion rates, and optimizing digital presence to align with business objectives.
• Content marketing experience focused on creating and executing strategies that engage target audiences, enhance brand visibility, and support overall marketing goals through compelling, SEO-optimized content.