Design Intern - Experiences

Position Description

The Design Intern, on the Experiences team is learning how to use design and content to fuel compelling brand experiences in physical spaces. This intern level role provides support to the Creative Director and other members of the Experiences creative and project teams while helping to creatively provide solutions to meet our clients’ needs. The Design intern will provide support in achieving creative solutions while meeting project scope, developing concept treatments, and working with production to bring those elements to life (on time and on budget) in physical space. As a creative producer in the work, you will help support Hyperquake’s output with experience related to many facets of design: graphic, digital/interactive, motion graphics, immersive installations, videos/storytelling and conceptual design thinking – ensuring all creative work meets and/or exceeds both agency and client expectations. This role is responsible for producing actionable design solutions in a collaborative environment.

The right candidate will be comfortable working across multiple clients, project types, and industries and agile enough to move back and forth, as needed. Key responsibilities include designing presentations and supporting materials, brainstorming and visualizing physical environments and creating collateral that supports the compelling stories we build for our clients. This role covers all aspects of the visual arts and requires competency across the full range of graphic design software.

About the Experiences Team:  Experience team members create immersive experiences in physical spaces: destinations for humans to engage with ideas and brands in uniquely memorable ways using content, design, and interactive technology. The environments we design—innovation centers, brand experience centers, executive briefing centers (EBCs), pop-up activations, and mobile venues—seek to captivate clients and their guests while reflecting Hyperquake’s core values: Build Ideas, Incite Passion, Be Real, and Respect One Another.

Hyperquake looks for students and young professionals early in their career, with great portfolios, excellent communication skills, and a strong desire to learn as much as they can about design and related industries. Successful candidates will be knowledgeable and passionate about what Hyperquake does, aware of new trends and techniques, and jump into our work culture with a great attitude and lots of flexibility.

Primary Responsibilities

●    Passion and exposure for developing creative solutions for experiential design solutions
●    Understands best practices of experiential/spatial design 
●    Be an active participant in creative ideation and collaborative design critique
●    Ability to present work and communicate practical rationale to internal team
●    Works daily with the Experiences design team to ensure all deliverables meet and/or exceed expectations.
●    Delivers creative excellence within project parameters: client goals and requirements, internal goals, technical constraints as well as budget and schedule.
●    Understands the brand’s meaning to users at every touchpoint and creates design solutions that support the brand’s strategies – and challenges the expected.
●    Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients
●    Collaborates with internal and external partners; communicates issues, opportunities, and insights to various departments as necessary to ensure design integrity is being upheld.
●    Effectively manages and maintains an organized server environment for the client/brand assets.
●    Works daily with the Creative Director to ensure all design centric projects are exceeding design expectations.   
●    Responsible for managing best practices in design (clean files, proofing, color limitations, printing limitations) with design team members.

Additional Responsibilities

●    Must be a quick learner who can fearlessly jump into projects with little warning. Has a passion for the work that Hyperquake does that is manifested in a positive attitude, a strong sense of team,          enjoying our clients, and in the process having a ton of FUN! 
●    Qualifications Pre-Juniors and Juniors majoring in graphic design or visual communication. Must have completed a minimum of 4 semesters or equivalent in their program. 
●    Should have advanced skills in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop with intermediate skills in PowerPoint and Keynote. 
●    Candidates should also have a solid understanding of the Google for Work suite. Outstanding demonstrated design sensibility across a variety of projects and deliverables. 
●    Commitment to quality, accuracy, and consistency including adherence to partner and Hyperquake brand standards, with an expert attention to detail. 
●    Proven ability to influence and build strategic working relationships with senior clients, peers and vendors. 
●    Application requirements: a PDF of a resume and portfolio highlights

Experience You will Bring

●    Passion for the work that Hyperquake does that is manifested in a positive attitude, a strong sense of team, enjoying our clients, and in the process having a ton of FUN! 
●    Qualifications Pre-Juniors and Juniors majoring in graphic design or visual communication, or similar work experience. 
●    Should have advanced skills in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop with intermediate skills in PowerPoint and Keynote. 
●    Candidates should also have a solid understanding of the Google for Work suite. Outstanding demonstrated design sensibility across a variety of projects and deliverables. 
●    Commitment to quality, accuracy, and consistency including adherence to partner and Hyperquake brand standards, with an expert attention to detail. 
●    Proven ability to influence and build strategic working relationships with senior clients, peers and vendors. 
●    Application requirements: a PDF of a resume and portfolio highlights