Summer 2025 Design Internship (NY)

Your role:
Wolff Olins is looking for interns across our Strategy, Design and Engagement communities, to join our U.S. team for summer 2025. You’ll work on a range of internal and client projects, experiencing firsthand how brands are created and evolved. This is a full-time internship that will begin in early June and finish at the end of August.We expect our Summer Interns to be full members of our team, contributing to client work, new business pitches, and internal initiatives. Our Summer Interns should be curious and eager to learn, passionate about brands, optimistic for the world, and creative and proactive in all that they do.

For our Design community:
We’re looking for a highly conceptual, curious, and capable design intern to join our team for the summer. Someone who is enthusiastic, hardworking, has a unique voice, and can surprise us. You’ll work on a wide range of internal and client projects, experiencing firsthand how brands are developed and evolved.

You'll get to:

• Design and contribute to real projects as a full-time member of the team
• Have the freedom to experiment and push design in unexpected directions
• Wear different hats exploring all the phases of a project, from ideation to execution
• Collaborate closely with team members across disciplines
• Make a difference by helping ambitious clients have a positive impact in the world
• Immerse yourself in a rich studio culture and community from all over the world
• Enjoy guest lectures, family lunches, weekly design meetings, and design offsites

You must:

• Have strong graphic design and typography skills
• Be fluent across Adobe Creative Suite
• Be able to work in Figma
• Work fluidly across print and digital
• Motion, animation, 3D, and film/editing skills a huge plus

You are:

• A rising college junior or senior, or a recent graduate in the field
• Interested in brand, business, design, strategy, and impact
• A clear and analytical thinker with strong writing and storytelling skills
• Creative and innovative
• Curious and eager to learn
• Innovative + creative
• Bold + proactive
• Collaborative + enthusiastic
• Legally able to work in the United States during the summer of 2024

You are responsible for:

• Playing an active role in the team across various assignments, including client work and internal initiatives
• Introducing new and experimental approaches, and having a willingness to learn from some of the wisest minds in the business
• Speaking and writing in clear ways with people of all levels, and telling great stories within your work
• Being meticulous and organized, understanding nuance, and paying attention to detail
• Contributing to the success of your projects by pushing the work and collaborating with the rest of our team

You will:

• Be working on real projects as a full-time member of the team
• Be exposed to clients, client work, and the Wolff Olins way of working across the globe, with large, global companies and organizations
• Craft and contribute to key internal initiatives
• Have the freedom to experiment and push our work in unexpected directions
• Wear different hats exploring all the phases of a project, from ideation to execution
• Collaborate closely with team members across disciplines
• Make a difference by helping ambitious clients have a positive impact in the world

Details and requirements:

• Timing: Full-time, beginning of June until end of August (approx. 12 weeks in duration)
• Location: Interns must be in NY and able to legally work in the United States.
• Compensation: Paid internship
• Due date: Please submit applications to Wolff Olins by March 7, 2025
• Our recruitment process will be conducted from March - April 2025, with offers anticipated in April 2025, and an internship start date of Monday, June 9, 2025.

Our focus on people and the world:
Wolff Olins believes in creating an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work. We are interested in our people having diverse points of view and different perspectives on the world. We set out to equip our people with the knowledge, confidence and tools to do the best work of their lives. Our purpose is to help our people create transformative brands that push businesses, people and the world forward.