Gorilla 76 is looking for intern Designer candidates. As part of the Digital Creative Department, you’ll be responsible for working closely with our Digital Creative Director and other teammates to deliver design work for both our clients and ourselves. You will gain tremendous agency experience.
Your key accountabilities as an intern will include:
- Creative execution
- QA/QC
Before applying for this internship, please review the following:
Your role
This internship entails designing digital advertisements, editorial imagery, email templates and imagery, webpage layouts and other miscellaneous content. While this job does involve brainpower and critical thinking, its main focus is on execution and delivery. No coding knowledge required, but a basic understanding of HTML/CSS and WordPress is very helpful.
Your primary key accountabilities will include:
- Creative execution
- Quality assurance and quality control
What that looks like:
- Working with our team to design digital advertisements, editorial imagery, email templates and imagery, webpage layouts and other miscellaneous content
- Maintaining and upholding client’s brands and related standards online
- Staying current with the latest trends and research in the digital marketing space
- Whatever else is needed to make Gorilla and our team stronger
Within the Digital Creative Department, you’ll work closely with the Digital Creative Director as well as our Developer, to execute your duties. You’ll also work to resolve issues, define processes and better your teammates.
What that looks like:
- Meeting weekly as a department to identify and work through issues
- Diving into professional development opportunities
- Sharing wins and challenges with the team
- Owning your responsibilities for the department
Putting your role into perspective
You'll work closely with the Digital Creative Director. Per his direction, you will execute design work for Gorilla and our clients. You'll be a stone-cold executioner. While there's certainly room for you to use your brain, we need muscle first and foremost in this role. This is not a fit for those who don't like doing the dirty work.
Within three months you’ll...
- Have finished your onboarding and training
- Learn how to use our tech stack
- Met with all department directors
- Be doing day-to-day design work for all clients
- Attend monthly State of Gorilla meetings
- Gain an understanding of Gorilla’s workflow
- Set goals, professional and personal, for the rest of your year
Within six months you’ll…
- Own a full portfolio of client work
- Have earned the trust of your team and Digital Creative Director
- Have built lasting relationships with your fellow Gorillas - yes, even as an intern!
- Feel comfortable in owning your role and work
Within one year you’ll…
- Be ahead of most in your field of study
The person
- Is currently a sophomore or junior design student
- Portfolio of work demonstrating your ability to excel in this role
- Strong typography and layout skills
- Proficiency in Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Is a motivated self-starter who may not always have all of the information to get the job done but will figure it out
- Is empathetic and understanding in interactions with clients and internal team members.
- Is a confident multitasker and can evaluate priorities with an attention to detail
- Juggles many projects at once, works well cross-functionally, and never loses sight of goals
- Communicates expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion
- Puts school first, puts work a very close second
The team
While small and tight-knit, we’re a team, not a family. This helps us hold one another accountable. If you’re wondering who we are — look to our manifesto and five core values. Check out our Instagram. And see what people say about us on Glassdoor.
You'll use the following tools to get work done
- Sketch
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- ClickUp
- Slack
- Google Calendar
- Gmail
- Zoom
- Loom
- Keynote
- Dropbox
- HubSpot
- MacOS
By applying for this position, you are certifying that the information provided on this application form and any other documents provided to Gorilla 76 are complete and accurate. If asked to provide work samples, you are certifying that samples provided were created by you. Withholding information or providing false information will result in a refusal to hire or termination of your employment. This application is valid for 90 days, and you must reapply for consideration beyond 90 days.
Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle and policy at Gorilla 76, where employment is based upon your capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, citizenship status, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic. This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.
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