Design Intern

Job Description

About the Role: Design Intern at Prophet

Prophet is seeking a passionate and talented Design Intern to join their global design studio. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain exposure and experience in translating complex brand strategies into powerful and purposeful creative concepts. You will work alongside experienced designers, contributing to high-impact projects for a diverse range of clients.

Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Collaborative Design Solutions: Actively support the design team in developing creative design solutions from initial conception through to implementation. This includes ensuring all designs strategically translate and effectively support the overarching brand strategy.
• Team Partnership: Foster and maintain a cohesive and successful partnership with colleagues across the creative team, ensuring smooth collaboration and effective project delivery.
• Feasibility and Guidelines: Work closely with both the creative and production teams to ensure the feasibility of design solutions. You will also contribute to articulating clear design principles and guidelines for effective implementation.
• Software Expertise: Proactively maintain and enhance your expertise in industry-standard graphic design software packages, including the Adobe Suite, Figma, and AI Tools.
• New Business Involvement: Participate in new business efforts and pitches as requested, contributing your creative insights and design skills.
• Presentation Skills: Present and clearly substantiate all creative work to internal teams, including logos, visual identities, and comprehensive visual systems.

What Prophet Looks For:

• Strong Design Fundamentals: Demonstrated strong knowledge of typography, layout, and color theory, alongside proficiency in the latest design tools such as Adobe Suite, Figma, and AI Tools.
• Portfolio Excellence: An excellent portfolio showcasing strong brand identity and visual system thinking.
• Communication Skills: Solid interpersonal capabilities combined with superlative verbal, visual, and written communication skills are essential.
• Design Understanding: A baseline understanding of various design methodologies, including user-experience/interface design, information design, and corporate identity/branding.
• Presentation Ability: The ability to clearly explain and articulate design issues in writing, and dynamically present ideas to senior management and public groups.
• Educational Background: Recently completed a BFA degree program or currently enrolled in an MFA program, with the capacity to work 40 hours per week.

About Prophet:

Prophet is a leading consultancy dedicated to helping clients unlock uncommon growth. They achieve this by developing innovative new business models, reimagining brands and experiences, driving demand and customer engagement, and empowering organizations to transform. As the largest privately-owned firm of its kind, Prophet uniquely blends creative and strategic expertise to identify paths to purposeful, transformative, and sustainable growth.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Prophet boasts 15 global offices and a diverse team of over 600 strategists, data analysts, marketers, digital experts, and creatives. They have partnered with some of the world’s most successful companies, including Jet Blue, CVS Health, The Home Depot, Samsung, T-Mobile, and UBS, guiding them from initial ideation to successful in-market execution.

Prophet is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team. They value a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, ensuring that all employment, promotion, and evaluation decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.