Intern, Graphic Design

The role

You will work with Heron leadership to develop and bring the brand to life across various projects. This includes creating graphics, layouts, environmental signage, apparel, and supporting company communications.

What you will do

• Developing graphics, layouts, typography, illustrations, icons, diagrams, and other elements of visual language
• Creating environmental graphics, signage, wayfinding, and visual moments in offices and factory
• Designing apparel, swag, stickers, packaging, and other physical brand objects
• Supporting the design of presentations, recruiting materials, technical graphics, social content, and company communications
• Helping develop graphics and experiences for events, product launches, factory tours, and trade shows
• Exploring ways to make complex engineering and energy concepts visually clear and approachable
• Building and extending templates, graphic systems, and brand tools
• Working with printers, fabricators, vendors, and other partners
• Pitching ideas and making things

Required qualifications

• Currently studying or recently graduated from a graphic design, communication design, visual design, or related program—or an exceptional portfolio demonstrating equivalent ability
• A portfolio showing strong visual thinking and craft
• Strong fundamentals in typography, layout, composition, hierarchy, color, and image-making
• Comfort working in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and/or Figma, etc.
• Interest in brand identity and how a visual system extends across many different mediums
• A willingness to move between big ideas and small details
• Curiosity, low ego, initiative, and enthusiasm for working with people from different disciplines
• Heart

Nice to have

• Experience or interest in environmental graphics, signage, or wayfinding
• Illustration, photography, motion, animation, gen-AI tools, or 3D skills
• Experience designing apparel, merchandise, packaging, or other physical objects
• Interest in industrial design, architecture, manufacturing, engineering, or technology
• Experience preparing artwork for print/manufacture or working with fabricators and vendors
• An instinct for finding the fun, unexpected, or memorable expression of a brand

About the company

Heron Power Electronics is building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. They aim to remove bottlenecks in electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative hardware.