Summer Internship, Strategy

The Role

This internship is for design students who combine strong design sensibility with curiosity about systems, storytelling, and emerging technologies. You will support live projects by helping teams frame ideas, visualize insights, and communicate clear, compelling narratives while exploring how new tools can shape early-stage design thinking.

Who You Are
• Portfolio-driven with strong design sensibility and graphic excellence
• Skilled at telling the story of a project through visuals, diagrams, and narrative
• Curious about workflows, systems, and how projects are structured and delivered
• Actively exploring emerging AI and digital tools and interested in applying them to design
• Comfortable learning new technologies independently and sharing insights with teams
• Interested in research-driven and data-informed approaches
• Enrolled in a rigorous architecture or related program (final-year undergrad or graduate student)

What You Will Do

Analysis & Visualization
• Analyze and visually synthesize qualitative and quantitative information
• Help craft the narrative of projects through diagrams, layouts, and presentations
• Produce high-quality graphics that communicate complex ideas clearly

Design & Research Support
• Under supervision, prepare studies, models, sketches, and renderings
• Research spatial typologies and translate into clear visual frameworks

Tools & Workflows Support
• Test emerging tools and digital workflows relevant to early-stage design
• Help integrate new tools into design and strategy processes

Skills
• Exceptional graphic and visual communication skills
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design thinking and craft
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite (InDesign, Illustrator)
• Experience with Rhino/Revit/CAD or similar tools
• Exposure to GIS, data visualization, and computational tools is a plus
• Interest in emerging AI tools is a plus

What You’ll Gain
• Experience shaping how design ideas are communicated and implemented
• Exposure to strategy, research, and systems-level thinking
• Opportunity to explore and apply emerging digital tools in real project contexts

How to Apply:

Applications should include:

• Cover letter.
• A single PDF with your resume and work samples demonstrating your fit for the role