Design Intern, Experiences

Hyperquake, LLC•Cincinnati, OH

About The Position

The Design Intern supports Hyperquake’s Experiences team in using design and content to create compelling brand experiences in physical spaces. Working with the Creative Director and creative and project teams, the intern helps develop design solutions, concept treatments, presentations, supporting materials, and collateral, and works with production to bring creative elements to life on time and within budget. Work may involve graphic design, digital and interactive design, motion graphics, immersive installations, video and storytelling, and conceptual design thinking. The role produces actionable design solutions in a collaborative environment and requires working across clients, project types, and industries. The Experiences team creates immersive destinations where people engage with ideas and brands, including innovation centers, brand experience centers, executive briefing centers, pop-up activations, and mobile venues. The intern participates in ideation and design critique, communicates design processes and rationale, collaborates with internal and external partners, and helps ensure work meets agency and client expectations and project constraints. The role also includes maintaining organized client and brand assets and applying design best practices such as clean files, proofing, and awareness of color and printing limitations. Hyperquake seeks students and early-career professionals with strong portfolios, communication skills, a desire to learn, awareness of new trends and techniques, and a flexible, positive approach to collaborative work.

Requirements

Pre-junior or junior student majoring in graphic design, visual communication, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
Must have completed a minimum of four semesters or equivalent in the program.
Advanced skills in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
Intermediate skills in PowerPoint and Keynote.
Solid understanding of the Google for Work suite.
Demonstrated design sensibility across a variety of projects and deliverables.
Commitment to quality, accuracy, consistency, partner and Hyperquake brand standards, and attention to detail.
Ability to communicate design ideas and rationale and collaborate with teams and clients.
Application requires a PDF resume and portfolio highlights.

Nice To Haves

Passion for Hyperquake’s work and a positive, flexible, team-oriented attitude.
Awareness of new design trends and techniques.
Proven ability to influence and build strategic working relationships with senior clients, peers, and vendors.
Experience working across multiple clients, project types, and industries.

Responsibilities

Support the Creative Director and Experiences creative and project teams in developing solutions to meet client needs.
Develop concept treatments and support production in bringing design elements to life on time and within budget.
Design presentations, supporting materials, and collateral, and brainstorm and visualize physical environments.
Contribute to experiential design work across graphic, digital and interactive, motion graphics, immersive installations, video and storytelling, and conceptual design.
Participate actively in creative ideation and collaborative design critique.
Present work and communicate practical rationale to the internal team.
Work with the Experiences design team to ensure deliverables meet or exceed expectations.
Deliver creative work within client and internal goals, technical constraints, budgets, and schedules.
Create design solutions that support brand strategies and reflect the brand’s meaning to users at every touchpoint.
Communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions clearly to teams and clients.
Collaborate with internal and external partners and communicate issues, opportunities, and insights to relevant departments to uphold design integrity.
Manage and maintain an organized server environment for client and brand assets.
Work with the Creative Director to ensure design-centric projects exceed design expectations.
Apply design best practices, including maintaining clean files, proofing, and considering color and printing limitations.
Bring flexibility, a positive attitude, teamwork, and a willingness to learn quickly and contribute to projects.