Summer 2024 - Visual Design Intern - 90373683 - Hybrid

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a Visual Design Intern, you’ll report to the Lead Experience Visual Designer as a member of the Innovation team residing within the Digital Technology & Innovation department. The visual design intern supports the Innovation team with the creation, conception, and execution of visual appealing design assets to communication the team’s story, vision, and outcomes.

You are a creative problem solver, curious explorer, and storyteller doing new things with visual design. Your work involves the development of print, digital, environment, motion, and anything in between. You stay up to date with industry trends and incorporate fresh design approaches. You will contribute new innovative ideas and concepts to enhance the overall design strategy. You will work with other designer practitioners, futures thinkers, and technologists to envision and craft experiences that ultimately lead to the transformation of public transportation in the U.S.

The key to your success will be a positive spirit, the ability to effectively collaborate, and a relentless drive to re-imagine the future of passenger rail.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Think consumer-first, possessed a bold design perspective, and look for the best approach to tell a story.
• Love using typography, color, layout, imagery, composition to create visually compelling assets.
• Collaborate with the team to create visual assets for various projects.
• Develop new ways of visualizing information to attract attention, convey intricate thoughts, or simplify sophisticated processes.
• Explore new visual treatments, compositions, and design patterns.
• Effectively communicate designs and rationale via wireframes, prototypes, guidelines, specifications, presentations, and discussions.
• Participate in team discussions about current visual design projects.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment – skilled at applying feedback, understanding how to incorporate it, and timely return updated visual assets.
• Be an Amtrak ambassador, attending and helping to plan studio and community events, workshops, and conferences.
• Occasional 1-day travel to other Amtrak facilities

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Actively pursuing a degree at an accredited educational institution
• Actively pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Graphic Design, Digital Media, Communication Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, or a comparable discipline
• At least 2 years of academic undergraduate studies completed or a junior status at minimum.
• A cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• live within a commutable distance of Amtrak facilities within the Northeast Corridor
• Actively pursuing a graduate level degree or higher
• Prior professional design experience.
• A portfolio showcasing a solid understanding of conceptual thinking, typography, composition, imagery, illustration, and digital design.
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, as well as the Microsoft suite.
• Experience with Adobe After Effects for motion graphics, Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro for video editing.
• Experience with the creative process for photography and photo retouching.
• Experience with rapid prototyping methods, ranging from paper sketching to digital prototypes.
• Good organization, communication, storytelling, presentation, and time management skills
• Ability to absorb sophisticated information and translate it into engaging visual assets.
• Ability to develop visual assets that could be to print, digital, environment, and anything in-between.
• Ability to create high quality design work and then manage production of design work with various vendors to ensure the proper outcome.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong attention to detail.

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

The hourly range is $17.50 per hour - $35.00 per hour. Pay is based on factors including school year, program of study, etc.  In addition paid internships include Amtrak rail pass privileges as a part of the experience along with one (1) PTO day per academic year.

Please be advised that the Summer 2024 internship program will run from May 20th - August 9th.

Requisition ID:161279
Posting Location(s):N/A
Job Family/Function: Marketing 
Relocation Offered: No 
Travel Requirements: 0 - 5% 
 

You power our progress through your performance.
 

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions. 

Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen. 

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.  

In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses. 

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.