Design Intern

  • Intern

Company Description

Smarterer helps your team change as fast as your business. Our capability management platform, Flock, enables Fortune 500 companies to manage the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Through the powerful combination of a dynamic assessment engine, collaborative test development tools, and a library of the freshest crowdsourced tests, Smarterer can quantify anyone’s skill in as few as 10 questions and 120 seconds. Our community has answered over 1.5 million questions, across 1.7 million test sessions. That’s Big Data. Our investors include Google, True Ventures, Rethink Education and Boston Seed Capital.

We’re a hungry crew of startup team members who believe in truth telling, freedom, and changing the world. We’re storytellers, scientists, mathematicians, and athletes, who understand that a 1980s approach to skills isn’t going to cut it in 2014.

Job Description

As Smarterer’s Design Intern, you’ll work with our design team on print and digital projects that support our Marketing and Sales teams. You’ll report to Smarterer’s lead Designer, learning the ropes from an expert. During your first week, you’ll quickly come up to speed on Smarterer’s brand and style guidelines, learning what you need to dive into new projects. During your 6 month internship, you’ll tackle email graphics, postcards, company swag (shirts, hoodies, stickers), posters, sales materials and more. In addition to design projects, you’ll periodically take part in brainstorming, developing wireframes and high fidelity mockups, and learning HTML/CSS.

Qualifications

● You are located in Boston

● You live and breathe design

● You can't buy that box of pancake mix because the package design makes your stomach churn

● You agree that layout, color, and typography are all extremely important and understand how to design with all of them in mind

● You have strong opinions about design but work well with others, you have top notch communication skills

● You can take constructive criticism then apply it to your project

● You are proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator or any comparable tool

● HTML/CSS, Invision, Sketch, Balsamiq, Powerpoint, etc. are a plus but not required

Additional Information

We believe in truth telling, freedom, and changing the world. We’re a creative group of storytellers, scientists, mathematicians, and athletes, who believe that a 1980s approach to skills isn’t going to cut it in 2015. Come join our Flock.