Student Internship - Design Strategy - Summer 2022
Your Role
As a Design Strategy intern in Gensler’s New York office, you will join our creative studio environment for an 8-week full-time, paid internship opportunity from June through July 2022. You must be available for the entire duration of the program.
Working across a range of client industries and services, primary responsibilities will include end-user research, secondary research, production of client deliverables, programming, design standards development, and change management communications. Our NY Consulting Studio has expertise spanning workplace strategy, experience strategy, change management, programming, real estate positioning, portfolio analysis, master planning, innovation consulting, sustainability consulting, design guidelines, and web tool development.
What You Will Do
- Assist in planning and performing user research and data collection activities
- Workshop and presentation preparation and facilitation support
- Information synthesis to translate findings into implications and direction for design, occupancy, workplace performance, and/or workplace experience.
- Diagramming, data analysis, and visualization, including experience journey mapping and development of work style or other end-user behavior profiles
- Space programming
- Storyboarding, cartooning presentations, and development of communications
- Developing design concept diagrams
Your Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in an Architecture, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Business, Real Estate, Information Design or Transdisciplinary Design Program and have completed their third year of an undergraduate program or first year of a graduate program. This internship is not for recent graduates.
- Possess outstanding strategic, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills and be an enthusiastic team player
- Comfort in a fast-paced, dynamic, open, collaborative environment and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Self-starter, quick learner and have an entrepreneurial spirit
- Strong InDesign, Illustrator, and Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) skills
- Proven skills in information and presentation design
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task
- Interest in business strategy, business innovation and transformation, and/or workplace planning and design.
- Experience with AutoCAD + Revit experience a plus
- Possess 3-D computer modeling skills (Sketchup, 3-D Max, Rhino, etc.) a plus
How to Apply
Submit an online application including a resume, cover letter, and portfolio in PDF form. If you choose to submit a link to an online portfolio, you must make sure it is not password protected and that it contains a resume, cover letter, and work samples. Submissions made in Microsoft Word and/or without work samples will not be considered.
This posting will remain open until March 1, 2022.