New York, NY, United States
Prototype Studio
R/GA develops award-winning digital strategies for the world’s leading companies and brands. Sounds like a lot of work, right? It is. This is why we need fresh perspectives like yours. We work in an environment that embraces collaboration across all disciplines and encourages people to explore beyond the boundaries that limit visionary ideas. We’re creating digital experiences for brands like Nike, Verizon, and Nokia that build communities and connect people globally.
As an intern, you’ll work side-by-side with our industry’s brightest minds—receiving mentorship, training, and experience on real, live accounts. You’ll also take part in seminars, panels, and projects that will connect you with the latest industry trends and information. You won’t be bored.
The Prototype Studio at R/GA comprises an interdisciplinary team including experience design, visual design, technology, and production. It’s a highly collaborative team that is fast and nimble. We create simulations of customer experiences that can range in fidelity from paper to video to fully functional applications. Projects can include responsive experiences, mobile applications, animation explorations, interactive installations, physical computing, and more.
The Prototype Studio is seeking a multidisciplinary/hybrid intern; someone who excels in both design and tech, with an emphasis and interest especially in the latter. Additionally, we are looking for someone who can support the lead producers with general team duties as needed. Specific skills and traits should include:
• Design: Knows Photoshop and possesses a strong visual sensibility; 3D printing knowledge, 3D modeling skills, animation capability, and/or interest in product design is a plus
• Tech: Knows HTML and javascript; constantly exploring new software; interested and cognizant of the mobile, retail, physical computing, and/or product development landscape
• Production and soft skills: Ambitious, self-motivated, entrepreneurial, curious, communicative, organized, collaborative with various disciplines and personalities, reliable, dedicated, and willing to pitch in on anything and everything
The Prototype Studio intern will:
• Contribute regularly to client and internal brainstorms for best-in-class user experiences
• Support visual designers with creative development, asset-cutting, animation development, interface sketches, and more
• Support developers with HTML and Javascript development, possibly with responsive prototypes in particular, as well as other programming projects
• Conduct research: Investigate APIs at the onset of projects, evaluate software platforms for prototyping, and evaluate vendors (for 3D printing, user testing, etc.)
• Provide general production and team support: Capture project and technical learnings from prototypes and aggregate into an internal database, help with project tracking details, maintain the team’s internal site and blog, and more.
R/GA is committed to pursuing diversity, inclusion and fairness at every level of our organization. We believe in valuing the differences of all our employees.