Design Intern

About Us:

We are Berlin.

We specialize in projects with high stakes, complex stakeholder environments, and a mission to move hearts and minds. We get excited about telling untold stories, shifting perceptions and attitudes, and helping clients make big moves toward their vision for the future.

That can mean creating a campaign to correct misinformation, an immersive experience that highlights important social issues, or helping clients redefine their relationship with partners and stakeholders. We don’t fear big questions, conflict or complexity – those are all signs that we’re working on issues that matter.

Role Description:

You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside our public relations leaders, our creative director, our strategists, and the rest of the team daily. We operate as a unit on projects, meaning you’ll be part of that top-performing, supportive and integrated group – there’s no real creative/accounts divide here, and the partners at Berlin work alongside the rest of the team as we solve complex, interesting, and meaningful challenges. You’re not going to be stuck doing simple, boring bits as you learn the ropes – here, you will be right in the fun, challenging work with us, from day one.

This will be a designer internship within our growing Creative Team. A Designer at Berlin provides graphic design support and creative problem solving to branding projects, advertising campaigns, websites, annual reports and more.

Purpose of the role:

• Develop high-quality creative, in line with the brief and/or needs of the client
• Quality control/elevating and pushing the design work
• Idea/concept generation
• Learning and growing

Key responsibilities:

• Providing design support as needed. Depending on the scope of work, this can mean supporting an Art Director or handling all the design needs of a project.
• Bringing projects to life: once the direction of a project is established, designers own the majority of the production design.
• Provision of support to external partners such as photographers, video production houses, illustrators or others as needed.

Behavioural competencies:

• Open mindedness and curiosity – about design and the world at large
• Humility and a strong work ethic
• Openness to the ideas of the rest of the creative team
• Ownership and commitment to excellent work
• Attention to detail and good time management skills
• Can articulate the intent, spirit and vision for a creative approach, and sell that approach by relating it to the business needs of the client/the brief

Qualifications and experience:

• Ability to work in-office M-F, 9am-5pm
• Basic understanding of agency process
• Strong knowledge of Office software – Excel, Word, PPT etc.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
• Experience designing for digital (online ads, animation, websites etc.)

Bonus points for any of the following skills:

• Illustration
• Photography
• Animation
• Social Media Design/Editing