Tombras, a 400+ person, full-service, national advertising agency, is seeking a Project Manager Intern.

Where you’ll be working: Knoxville, TN

What to expect as a Project Manager Intern at Tombras:

Commitment to a 10 week, paid internship, $18 an hour starting on 2/10/26 and ending on 4/17/26 with a maximum of 25 hours per week.

What you'll be doing:

• 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 PM
• Pull closed jobs and summarize estimates versus actuals as needed

What you bring:

• 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

Why you’ll want to work at Tombras:

You’ll be joining one of the top independent agencies in North America. Connecting Data & Creativity for Business Results® is working for our clients and creating a flywheel affect fueling both client and agency growth. You’ll be a part of a highly creative agency that has been recognized by AdAge, Adweek, Communication Arts, Fast Company, Forbes and Fortune. Tombras was named Ad Age's 2024 Independent Agency of the Year and an AdAge A-List Standout Agency in 2022 and 2023.

Tombras is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Tombras is an E-Verify employer and participates in the E-Verify program.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Job may require traveling overnight, driving long distances as required and sitting for extended periods of time with occasional walking and standing and occasionally lifting or carrying articles weighing less than 10 pounds.