We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Art Direction Fellow to gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the agency business while providing invaluable support to our creative team. Taylor’s Art Direction HBCU Fellowship is a paid post-undergraduate, six-month, remote fellowship program.
Taylor provides real-world professional experience, development, and career-readiness fellowships to post-undergraduates and master’s students from accredited historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
As a Taylor Fellow, you are open minded, ready to learn, and motivated to start your career in the PR, social, and digital marketing industry. You’re excited to join a multifaceted group of colleagues that embrace diversity of thought as a means to enhance innovation and collaboration in all we do.
Details:
- Paid fellowship: $4,166.68 per each month worked, less applicable deductions and withholdings (based on an annual equivalent salary of $50k)
- Includes Paid Time Off, Holidays, and additional perks
- Fellowship begins 7/11/2024, and will go through 12/20/2024
- Full-time (35-40hrs/week)
- Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET
- Remote position
- Must be a recent college graduate, a graduate school student, and/or a student who has recently completed a master’s program at an accredited HBCU
Responsibilities and learning opportunities:
As a Taylor Fellow, you will gain hands-on agency experience through an in-depth training program, a dedicated manager, professional development and networking opportunities, and the day-to-day responsibilities and learning opportunities outlined below.
Shape
- Use strong understanding of evolving design principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry, to offer and develop contemporary design ideas that meet client business needs
- Remain current on marketing, design, technology, user experience, and cultural trends, and infuses this knowledge into all design work
- Collaborate effectively with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to provide ongoing counsel to mid-level clients, and to bring ideas to life through unconventional thinking and design innovation
- Actively participate in creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, motion graphics, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
- Effectively refine ideas into integrated visual systems that deliver against defined objectives
Make
- Execute thoughtful, polished designs across various mediums including digital/social content, motion graphics, print, photography, brand identity systems, presentations, infographics, etc.
- Demonstrate accountability and ownership for all design work on assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, and production to execute that drives business impact
- Self-edit design work in progress, incorporate feedback and direction from senior team members, and collaborate with them to evolve and elevate your work
- Work on multiple workstreams/assignments simultaneously, ensure that all work fits together as part of the broader strategy and/or brand identity system
Communication and Storytelling
- Partner with copywriting to design and create concepted ideas
- Design logos and sketches out ideas or layouts
- Produce mood boards, mockups, and engaging, innovative and effective design solutions
- Pitch creative ideas
- Write, present, and communicate in a polished and persuasive manner across all mediums, internally and externally
- Communicate well with internal colleagues to explain creative ideas and respond to questions or concerns
Concepting
- Actively participate in creative ideation for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
- Ensure that ideas/concepts fit together as part of the broader strategy and brand identity
- Assist in quick-turn ideas that tap into a culture or a specific moment in time
Requirements of this fellowship program:
- This is a post-undergraduate opportunity open to:
- Recent graduates who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited HBCU
- Those who are currently completing a master’s program or hold a master’s degree from an accredited HBCU
- Prior experience/internships at PR, Advertising, Digital/Social Marketing, Creative agencies or relevant coursework
- A conceptual visual thinker with a portfolio of work that is contemporary, on trend, and reflects a wide range of design influence
- Experience working across a wide range of media including digital/social, print, event/experiential, brand identity systems, etc.
- Strong skills in Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator, PowerPoint and Keynote
- Basic skills/knowledge of key principles of typography and fonts
- Experience in UX design and/or front-end development is a plus
- Basic understanding of advertising and marketing principles
- Strong attention to detail, organization, multitasking, and time-management
- Team player who enjoys working with and helping others in a collaborative environment
- Curious and open to others' ideas and viewpoints with a willingness to learn and take constructive feedback
- A good problem solver who seeks to make improvements and learns from mistakes
About Taylor
Taylor is a purpose-led marketing communications agency that has shaped possibilities for the world's leading brands for four decades. Our heritage in public relations and deep sports & entertainment expertise fuels breakthrough creativity across the entire media ecosystem.