Brand Design Intern

Brand Design Internship

This role is to be located by our New York City office

About Aruliden & Material

Aruliden, a Material company, is an award-winning brand creation and product innovation agency building purpose driven products and experiences end to end. We work with a diverse range of Fortune 100 as well as startup clientele in the Beauty, Lifestyle, and Consumer Technology space, often rethinking categories and industries. Our international team works with global brands and clients throughout the world to create cultural impact through design. 

Aruliden is the design & innovation studio within Material, a global integrated marketing services company that specializes in uncovering deep, data-driven insights in order to create experiences for clients, transforming relationships between businesses and the people they serve.

About the Internship

We are currently accepting applications for a Summer-Term Brand Design Intern to join our team.

The Brand Design Intern we’re seeking loves brands. The ideal candidate will have a background in graphic design, typography, and they understand how to tell unique visual stories through presentations and how ultimately to bring a brand and products to life. The candidate should also have a strong pulse on trends - what’s happening today and what’s happening next - and bring a fresh perspective and positivity to the table. Our environment is highly creative, fast-paced, fun and collaborative.

We’re looking for highly creative, strategic, thinkers and makers – we listen, learn, reinvent, design and make stuff, come join us!

As an Industrial Design Intern you will:

• Work with project teams to iterate on design ideas on multiple projects, translating strategy into visual identity.

• Design client-facing presentations.

• Pull imagery and conduct research for brand and design audits.

• Help ideate and design for internal social and website projects.

About You

What we expect:

• Background in graphic design, typography, and building brands

• Ability to execute design files from the team into production/pre-press ready files

• Support the implementation and maintenance of image/file cataloging, archiving and backup program

• Strong communication and organizational skills

• Strong hypothesis skills

• Ability to express ideas clearly graphically

• Ability to interact positively and effectively with employees at all levels within the organization, as well as with customers, prospects, and vendors.

What it will take:

• Must have a solid understanding and desire to keep up to date with innovation trends, industry trends, and design trends with a specific focus in beauty, fashion and lifestyle

• Good understanding of brands across a variety of industries / Strategic thinker with strong vision and ability to present well

• Design aesthetics, typography, great taste, and interest in developing art direction in relation to brand

• Good understanding and experience of bringing a brand to life in the digital space

• Good understanding and ability to bring a brand and physical product to life

• Excited to continue to learn and grow

• Completed or working towards a degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience

• Adobe Creative Suite proficiency

• Figma proficiency

• After Effects is a plus

• MS Office and Google Suite proficiency

• Strong written and verbal English communications skills

Why work for Material?

In addition to fulfilling, high-impact work, company culture and benefits are integral to determining if a job is a right fit for you. Here’s a bit about who we are and highlights around what we offer.

Who we are, and what we care about

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.  We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients represent industry sectors including technology, retail, transportation, finance and healthcare.

• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients. 

• We prize inclusion and interconnectedness. We amplify our impact through the people, perspectives, and expertise we engage in our work. Our commitment to deep human understanding combined with a science & systems approach uniquely equips us to bring a rich frame of reference to our work. 

Pay Range: $30/hour

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Equal employment opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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