Join the Visual Experience Design Team at Amazon!
Amazon.com is looking for talented, customer-focused design interns to join our Visual Experience Design Team. The ideal candidates will have the ability to deliver clean, web-ready designs based on existing Brand guidelines and style-guides in a fast-paced production environment.
This position requires strong organizational skills, web expertise, intrinsic design ability, typographic skills, and acute attention to detail. The ability to manage multiple projects and communicate with key stakeholders is essential. Chosen candidates will learn a great deal from an internship at Amazon and during your stay, you will generate a lot of work to add to your portfolio. Everyone that has had an internship with us has had a definite edge getting a position in the industry with Amazon listed as a place that you have worked.
Online portfolio of work is REQUIRED.
Qualifications:
- 1 year minimum experience in a web production or design class environment
- Proficient in the Adobe Suite of Software (Primarily PhotoShop and Illustrator)
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently
Nice to have:
- Retail web experience
- Illustration skills
- Strong knowledge of Flash, ActionScript
- CSS / PHP / html coding skills
- Knowledge of Print production
Responsibilities include:
- Designing strongly branded promotional graphics
- Optimizing digital images for download efficiency
- Developing clean and effective graphic templates and styleguides
- Fulfilling multiple project requests while simultaneously meeting tight deadlines
Please note:
- All Amazon design internships are unpaid.
- Candidates must get course credit for the internship, (this is non-negotiable).
- Candidates must commit to at least 3-months as an intern, but we’ve found that interns get the most out of a 6-month internship as it takes almost 3 months to get acquainted with how things work here.
- We ask for a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week.
- Candidates are required to come in for a brief 1 hour portfolio review with the team before the intern position is offered.
If interested, email Dawn Carter, Intern Program Lead at Amazon dawnca@amazon.com with your resume relevant portfolio links.
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