Digital Brand Design Intern

About the Role

Craftwork is seeking a Brand Design Intern to help bring our brand to life through thoughtful, consistent design, supporting our next stage of growth. This role is for an emerging designer who is curious, detail-oriented, and eager to learn through real projects. You will have the opportunity to build your craft while contributing to a growing brand and seeing how your designs help customers understand, trust, and choose Craftwork.

Key Responsibilities

• Create clear, polished designs for social media, digital advertisements, printed collateral, and other marketing materials.
• Prepare files for their intended channel, checking dimensions, resolution, and production requirements.
• Apply visual identity consistently across channels, materials, and markets.
• Adapt existing designs for new uses while preserving brand elements.
• Create assets to support marketing campaigns, neighborhood programs, partnerships, and local events.
• Adapt campaign materials for different markets, audiences, and channels.
• Turn project photography, before-and-afters, and customer testimonials into compelling branded content.
• Create stories that help prospective customers understand our service and feel confident choosing Craftwork.
• Maintain organized design files and create reusable templates for recurring marketing needs.
• Keep templates and shared assets up to date.
• Clarify project audience, message, deliverables, and timeline before beginning design work.
• Share concepts, incorporate feedback, and communicate progress or blockers.
• Review final work for accuracy and completeness, then hand off files.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Comfortable taking an open-ended idea or incomplete brief and turning it into clear design direction.
• Ability to create an initial concept or template from scratch, ask thoughtful questions, and improve it through feedback.
• Strong foundation in typography, color, composition, and visual hierarchy.
• Ability to create designs that communicate a clear message and work well across digital and print.
• Understanding of how individual design choices contribute to a recognizable brand.
• Ability to work with an established visual identity and bring fresh ideas to its application.
• Ability to combine imagery and copy to tell a clear, compelling story.
• Thinking about what customers need to understand when they encounter a design.
• Comfortable working in design tools such as Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, AI Agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Replit).
• Eagerness to learn unfamiliar tools.
• Understanding of how to prepare and export assets for different channels and production.
• Ability to keep files organized so others can find, edit, and reuse your work.
• Pride in accurate, polished work and ability to catch issues with copy, alignment, spacing, and image quality.
• Ability to manage commitments, meet agreed deadlines, and communicate early when help is needed.
• Ability to carry revisions through to completion and check work before handing it off.
• Ability to share work early, welcome feedback, and apply it thoughtfully.
• Ability to communicate clearly and ask questions when a brief or priority is unclear.
• Low ego, accountability, and motivation to develop craft while helping the team and company succeed.

Qualifications

• Strong visual foundation.
• Detail-oriented.
• Eager to learn through real projects.
• Takes initiative.
• Comfortable asking questions, sharing work, and incorporating feedback.