U SPORTS Winter Intern

About M2

M2 Partners is an end-to-end digital transformation consulting firm helping organizations solve complex marketing challenges through strategy, technology, and execution. Founded by Jill M. Speirs in 2011, M2 has grown from a strategic consulting firm into a global practice built on long-term client partnerships. As a trusted partner of Adobe for over 13 years, we have delivered more than 100 successful implementations and are recognized as a Gold Solutions Partner with an Adobe Campaign Specialization. With a team spanning three continents, we support clients globally across a diverse range of industries. Our approach focuses on aligning people, process, data, technology, and AI to drive measurable business outcomes, with core solution areas in marketing automation, data management, insights and analytics, and content and digital asset management.

Learn more: https://m2partnersglobal.com/

About the Role

We are proud to be introducing this internship opportunity in partnership with U SPORTS that offers a paid role at M2 Partners Global in one of the following categories: Consulting, Marketing, Sales or Software development. Your internship is tailored towards your current experience and interests and in your application you may express interest in more than one role category and have the opportunity to gain experience in more than one. In these roles you will work alongside our growth, consulting/client delivery or technical development teams depending on your chosen role.

Location

Hybrid (3 days per week) - 2 Bloor St West, Toronto, Ontario or remote. If you are within commuting distance we will look to operate on our standard hybrid model so that candidates can foster collaboration with our team here in the Toronto office. However, we will offer a remote opportunity if this is not logistically possible due to factors such as location or other academic or athletic commitments.

Consulting responsibilities

• Assist with the day to day client management
• Assist with client specific insights & / or reports
• Assist with Creating Client Status reports
• Project Management:
• Monitoring client ticket submissions
• Monitoring internal team updates
• Monitoring ticket Due Dates
• Internal follow up requests for progress / status updates
• Assist to development of client presentation needs
• Assist with development of client requirement documents
• Participate in client calls as needed
• Assist with scheduling client calls
• Obtaining dates and times from M2 team and / or the client
• Assist with month end team and client hour reporting
• Additional duties as required

Growth (Sales and Marketing) Responsibilities

• Research and identify prospective clients aligned with ideal customer profile and service offerings
• Support outbound prospecting efforts through LinkedIn, email, and other channels
• Assist in maintenance of CRM
• Help prepare prospecting materials and client decks
• Monitor and analyze sales outreach performance and suggest improvements
• Conduct market research, competitive intelligence and industry research
• Collaborate with the growth team on building and improvements to sales strategy, alignment with marketing and overall service offering strategy and rollout.
• Manage organizational tools including calendars, overviews and task trackers  
• Work collaboratively with the entire marketing team on strategic initiatives for internal brand strategy, sales, client relations and partner relations. 
• Assist in the planning, creation, execution and monitoring of marketing campaigns (email automation, social media, events and activations). 
• Assist with content creation and execution
• Collaborate on live or virtual event planning and execution
• Additional duties as required

Software Development Responsibilities

• Attend daily team meetings interacting with both development and project management/consulting teams 
• Supporting our custom development team on building net new features and enhancing existing ones through full-stack development tasks 
• Unit testing and maintenance of existing systems to ensure code quality and reliability 
• Assisting in the consolidation and standardization of technical documentation 
• Learning and gaining experience Adobe Experience Cloud solutions through an individualized learning path  
• Learning about Adobe solution integrations with custom SaaS applications to bring value to client engagements and support internal sandbox development 
• Additional duties as required 

Skills & Experience

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal 
• Ability to take strong direction while also displaying strong personal initiative 
• Ability to work well within a team environment 
• Strong organizational, time management and project management skills, including the management of multiple priorities and resources 
• A hunger to learn and gain experience 
• Adaptability to quick priority changes 
• Currently enrolled in a relevant degree pathway from a U SPORTS member institution and actively rostered on a U SPORTS team
• Proficient in Microsoft Office & Canva and/or Adobe Creative Cloud tools (E.g., Adobe Express) 
• Open to learning new technologies relevant to their specific role
• Must be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or eligible to work in Canada. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Software Development technical skills (For interested software development students only)

Languages 

• Typescript (primary – used across both frontend and backend) 
• SQL (PostgreSQL) 

Backend Node.js/NestJS 

• TypeORM 
• PostgreSQL 
• REST APIs 
• WebSockets (Socket.IO) 

 Frontend 

• React 
• HTML/CSS 
•  Authentication & Identity Keycloak/OAuth2/JWT (familiarity is preferred but deep expertise not required) 

Tooling & Workflow 

• Git/GitHub 
• npm/package management 
• Basic command line/terminal 
•  Additional experience Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud solutions (E.g., Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Experience Manager, etc) 
• Familiarity with cloud/hosted environments 

Note: Experience with all tools listed above is not a requirement to be considered for this role. However, candidates that do have experience with all or most of the tool listed is preferred as these are tools that are used daily by the development team today.

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to andrew.speirs@m2partnersglobal.com and indicate the potential departments you would like to be considered for with this role.

*For interested software development interns only* In lieu of a cover letter, please provide either a one page deep dive of a recent technical project you have worked on and/or an updated GitHub or portfolio of your work

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.