Internship Visual Communication Design Jobs in Minnesota

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, workback schedules, action trackers, and installation calendars.
• Translate visual merchandising and event objectives into clear deliverables, milestones, and execution plans.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and escalate critical decisions to maintain project schedules and budgets.
• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and leadership teams.

• Partner with merchandising and experience teams to define fixture, display, product, and presentation requirements.
• Coordinate fixture procurement, delivery, installation, returns, and inventory reconciliation.
• Maintain accurate fixture inventories and supporting documentation throughout project lifecycles.
• Support mock-store and showroom setups to ensure alignment with merchandising strategies.

• Coordinate sourcing of furniture, props, dcor, signage, and experiential materials.
• Collaborate with production teams, creative partners, logistics providers, and vendors on custom builds and specialty projects.
• Track production schedules, delivery timelines, project dependencies, and costs.
• Ensure materials and resources are available to support key installation milestones.

• Maintain floor plans, inventory lists, installation guides, project trackers, product lists, and readiness checklists.
• Ensure project documentation remains accurate, organized, and accessible.
• Conduct readiness reviews prior to installations and events to identify and address gaps.
• Support operational excellence through strong documentation and process management.

• Provide hands-on coordination during setup, installation, and event execution.
• Ensure teams have the necessary fixtures, merchandise, equipment, props, and resources.
• Resolve onsite issues by coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor installation activities to ensure work is completed safely, accurately, and on schedule.

• Coordinate event teardown, material returns, and inventory reconciliation activities.
• Confirm completion of outstanding logistics and vendor deliverables.
• Maintain final project records and closeout documentation.
• Capture lessons learned and create reusable templates and tools to improve future projects.

• Experience in visual merchandising, retail environments, experiential events, store design, event production, or related project management roles.
• Proven success managing complex, deadline-driven projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating physical installations, fixtures, displays, props, furniture, or event materials.
• Strong ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and timelines simultaneously.
• Excellent organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, inventories, trackers, and operational documentation.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects from planning through completion.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• Availability to provide onsite support during key installation and event periods.
• Required Technical Skills

• Adobe Acrobat
• AI-powered productivity and collaboration tools
• Google SketchUp
• Microsoft OneDrive
• Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint

• Experience supporting large-scale retail, showroom, mock-store, or experiential environments.
• Experience working with creative, visual merchandising, studio, production, logistics, and operations teams.
• Knowledge of fixture management, installation planning, event production, and inventory reconciliation processes.
• Experience managing project budgets and vendor relationships.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with changing priorities and compressed timelines.
• Familiarity with retail store planning, merchandising execution, or customer experience initiatives.

Our promise is simple. DAHL has proven year after year that we are flexible, consistent and easy to work with, which is why our clients and consultants have stayed with us, and we've continued to grow throughout the years.
Our clients know they can depend on our efforts, as we hold their priorities in high regard. We genuinely care about each and every relationship and promise to work with the utmost of respect, integrity and high energy, as we continually strive to build long-term relationships.