Careers in Design

By Willy Franzen

Looking for an entry level job or internship in design? Here's an overview of how to approach the search and a list of companies that might have entry level and internship opportunities that will interest you.

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Design deals with the art and aesthetics of making things attractive to others. Many companies employ designers in order to make their product and brand beautiful and to put their best face forward to consumers. Because of this a designer can work in almost any industry, but almost all of them specialize in a specific area. A few major areas a designer might specialize in include:

Web design, creating beautiful and functional websites for users to interact wtih
Game design, creating games of all sorts
Product design, creating new products and prototypes
Graphic design, creating graphics, logos, and layouts
Interior design, making a room or the interior of a building look aesthetically pleasing
Fashion design, creating clothing that may find its way to clothing racks

To get started in design, learn the tools of the design trade you want to work in. For graphic design, for example, learn how to use graphic design programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. You also need a strong portfolio and for many positions a degree in design, art, or a related field.

Companies with Entry Level Jobs and Internships in Design

Lua - Lua is an NYC based company focused on “empowering mobile workforces by giving them access to the people and information they need to get the job done."

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Job Title	Location
Senior DevOps Engineer	San Mateo, CA
Embedded Software Engineer (C, linux, shell) - 3056	Novi, MI
Firmware Engineer	Irvine, CA
Linux DevOps Engineer	Chicago, IL
Software Engineering	Beaverton, OR

See all 429 job postings

The Institute for Humane Studies - The IHS is an Arlington, VA based organization that “advances a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of people who share an interest in liberty.”

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Job Title	Location
Research Associate I 612886 (NCI)	Reston, VA
Research Specialist 2	Chicago, IL
Director of Operations	Santa Clara, CA
Deputy Director of Online Programs	Arlington, VA
Two Faculty Positions - Sociology	New Orleans, LA

See all 7 job postings

CompStak - CompStak is based in NYC and creating "transparency in commercial real estate by gathering information that is hard to find, difficult to compile or otherwise unavailable.”

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Job Title	Location
Real Estate Administrative Assistant ~ Buyer Sales Specialist	San Rafael, CA

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Victorious - Victorious is a Santa Monica, CA based startup that is “motivated by the challenge of powering and uniting the world’s most creative communities.”

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Job Title	Location
Business & Career Coach	Melbourne, FL
Communications Manager - DC	United States
Front End Web Developer	Newark, TX
PHP/MySQL Developers: 12 REASONS why programmers love to work for us	Boston, MA
Creator Development Manager (Lifestyle)	Santa Monica, CA

See all 21 job postings

Sprout Social - Sprout Social is a Chicago, IL based company that offers “a management and egnagement platform for social business.”

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Job Title	Location
Social Media Strategist	Boulder, CO
Social Media Internship	New York, NY
Urban Outfitters: Social Media Coordinator	Media, PA
Product Support Intern	New York, NY
Social Media Specialist	Raleigh, NC

See all 146 job postings

Emerge Media - Emerge Media is a Chicago, IL based company that is “taking on the essential roots of everyday tasks and breathing real life into the technology behind them.”

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Job Title	Location
Graduate Reliability Engineer - Chicago, IL	Chicago, IL
Customer Advocate, QuickBooks Self-Employed	Mountain View, CA
(Agora) Enrollment Coordinator	Wayne, PA
Senior Digital Strategist	Santa Monica, CA
Data Architect	Duluth, GA

See all 165 job postings

BustedTees - BustedTees is a New York, NY based t-shirt company that was started by the same team as CollegeHumor.

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No current job openings.

Chalkfly - Chalkfly is a Detroit, MI based office supply startup that provides “the supplies you need to do your best work.”

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No current job openings.

Piece & Co. - Piece & Co. is a Chicago based social enterprise that partners with fashion/retail brands to have female artisans "create beautiful, handmade products and accessories."

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Job Title	Location
Product Manager	Tempe, AZ
Art Director	San Mateo, CA
Senior Living Marketing Assistant	Bethesda, MD
BIA - Self Governance Grant Accountant	Ketchikan, AK
Product Manager (Technology Partners)	Tempe, AZ

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ArtStream - ArtStream is a DC based non-profit “whose mission is to create artistic opportunities for individuals in communities traditionally under-served by the arts.”

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No current job openings.

GuideSpark - GuideSpark is a Menlo Park, CA based company that offers a “robust employee communications platform” to make HR's job easier.

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Job Title	Location
Lead Dev Ops Engineer	Menlo Park, CA
(Sr.) Director, Marketing Communications & PR	Menlo Park, CA
Senior Product Marketing Manager (Enterprise)	Menlo Park, CA
Product Designer, Motion Graphics	Menlo Park, CA
Sr. QA Automation Engineer	Menlo Park, CA

See all 25 job postings

SumAll - SumAll is a New York, NY based company that allows “you to see all your information in one place and provide you visibility into the past, present, and future.”

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Job Title	Location
Data Analyst	New York, NY
Sales Development Representative	New York, NY
Inside Sales Associate	New York, NY
Backend Engineer	New York, NY

See all 4 job postings

WPromote - WPromote is an El Segundo, CA based company that calls itself “the country’s leading Online Marketing firm." They help clients with SEO, PPC, and Social Media.

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Job Title	Location
Social Media Specialist	El Segundo, CA
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Specialist	El Segundo, CA
SEO Specialist	El Segundo, CA
Email Specialist	El Segundo, CA
Business Development Representative	El Segundo, CA

See all 9 job postings

Noom - Noom is an NYC based company that makes healthy living easy by using "cutting-edge technology to accurately monitor your progress and provide expert advice and analysis."

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Job Title	Location
Academic Research Associate	New York, NY
Intern - Software Engineer	New York, NY
Food Database Editor - Korea	New York, NY
Food Database Editor - English	New York, NY
Food Database Editor - Spanish	New York, NY

See all 21 job postings

eponym - eponym is a company based in Brooklyn, NY that helps "the world’s most exciting brands create and distribute their own eyewear.”

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Job Title	Location
Customer Experience Internship	Brooklyn, NY
Social Content Marketing Associate	Brooklyn, NY
Retail Associate at Eyewear Shop-in-Shop at Azalea	San Francisco, CA
Keyholder at Eyewear Shop-in-Shop at Azalea	San Francisco, CA

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Kitchensurfing - Kitchensurfing is an NYC based company that matches “up chefs and people who need a cook at high and low price points and for a variety of types of engagements."

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Job Title	Location
Product Designer	New York, NY
Project Manager	New York, NY
Product Manager	New York, NY
Software Engineer	New York, NY
Lead iOS Engineer	New York, NY

See all 5 job postings

Spatial - Spatial is a Broomfield, CO based company that is “the leading provider of 3D components for technical application development across a broad range of industries.”

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Job Title	Location
Relocate to Wichita, KS - Drafter - Mechanical & Structural – CONTINGENT	Dallas, TX
Java Developer	Silver Spring, MD
Pipefitter - Journey Level - KTN	Ketchikan, AK
Outside Machinist - Journey Level - KTN	Ketchikan, AK
Outside Machinist - Associate 2,3,4 - KTN	Ketchikan, AK

See all 3,074 job postings

Team Detroit - Team Detroit is an ad agency that in 2006 brought together parts of five legendary agencies that were under the same ownership and already working with Ford.

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Job Title	Location
CDL-A OTR Teams & Truck Team Driver (North)	Highland Park, MI
Product Engineer	Detroit, MI
Web User Interface Designer	Warren, MI
Medical Technologist	United States
Medical Technologist	United States

See all 18,519 job postings

RelayRides - RelayRides is a San Francisco, CA based company that connects “vehicle owners whose cars would otherwise be idle with people who need a car.”

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Job Title	Location
User Experience Design Intern	San Francisco, CA
Product Manager Intern	San Francisco, CA
Office Manager	San Francisco, CA
Community & Social Media Manager	San Francisco, CA
Airport Operations Associate	San Francisco, CA

See all 14 job postings

Optoro - Optoro is a Washington, DC based company that “unleashes hidden revenue for retailers and creates value for shoppers” by helping businesses with “reverse logistics.”

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Job Title	Location
Process Improvement Intern	United States
Talent and HR Intern	Washington, DC
General Summer Internship Opening	Washington, DC
Executive Assistant	Washington, DC
Product Manager	Washington, DC

See all 17 job postings

Northstar Travel Media - Northstar Travel Media is a Secaucus, NJ based “business information and marketing solutions provider to the $300 billion U.S. travel, tourism and meetings industries.”

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Job Title	Location
Editorial Freelancers	Home Based
Associate Editor, Digital	New York, NY
Project Manager	Stowe, VT
Marketing, Sales, and Events Assistant	Secaucus, NJ
Business Analyst	Stowe, VT

See all 15 job postings

Advanced Telemetry Systems - Advanced Telemetry Systems is an Isanti, MN based company that provides "researchers and managers in ecology and biology with animal tracking and monitoring products."

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Job Title	Location
Range Senior Project Leader	Patrick Afb, FL
RN II Seasonal (Position is in Yuma, AZ)	United States
Clinical Nurse Specialist- Cardiovascular	Atlanta, GA
Electrical Engineer, EMS Network Applications	Washington
Radio Frequency Engineer	Bethesda, MD

See all 742 job postings

Fever - Fever is a New York, NY and Madrid, Spain based startup social network that is “changing the way people make plans.”

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Job Title	Location
Nurse Practitioner (Mechanical Circulatory Support)	Palo Alto, CA
Urgent Care Physician - (Urgent Care) Locum Tenens	Houston, TX
Urgent Care Physician	Peru, IL
Intern Quality Assurance (Chemistry Lab)	Broken Bow, NE
Research Associate I	Cambridge, MA

See all 390 job postings

StyleCaster Media Group - StyleCaster Media Group is based in NYC and aims “to bring style to the people, empowering millions of readers to discover and share their style.”

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Job Title	Location
Systems Administrator	New York, NY

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AlphaSights - AlphaSights is a New York, NY based company that provides “today’s investors, deal-makers and corporate strategists with access to the knowledge they need to succeed.”

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Job Title	Location
MBA Intern, Business Development (Summer 2015)	New York, NY
MBA Intern, Strategy (Summer 2015)	New York, NY
Analytics Associate	New York, NY
Ember Javascript Engineer	New York, NY
UI Designer	New York, NY

See all 14 job postings

Mason Zimbler - Mason Zimbler is an Austin, TX based “integrated agency rooted in the digital space” that combines “a love of creative” with a “desire for results.”

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No current job openings.

Blinds.com - Blinds.com is a Houston, TX based company that is “the world’s largest online window covering store.”

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Job Title	Location
Frontend Developer (UX/UI)	Houston, TX
Jr. Online Marketing Writer	Houston, TX
Customer Service Representative (Solutions Provider)	Houston, TX
HR Generalist	Houston, TX
Inside Sales Consultant (Design Consultant)	Houston, TX

See all 7 job postings

WONGDOODY - WONGDOODY is based in Seattle, WA and “is the most awarded independent advertising agency on the West Coast.”

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Job Title	Location
Senior Account Executive	Los Angeles, CA
Sr. Strategist	Seattle, WA

See all 2 job postings

Xamarin - Xamarin is a San Francisco, CA based company allows developers to write “apps entirely in C#, sharing the same code on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.”

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Job Title	Location
Xamarin Developer	Seattle, WA
SDE 3	Redmond, WA
Mobile Software Engineer III	Minnetonka, MN
Senior UX Designer	New Jersey
Mobile App Developer (iOS/Android/Windows)	Piscataway, NJ

See all 459 job postings

Lands’ End - Lands' End is a Dodgeville, WI based "international apparel brand synonymous with timeless American style.”

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Job Title	Location
Manager of Inventory Control & Reverse Logistics	Cleveland, OH
Solutions Architect	San Antonio, TX
Personal Software Implementation Consultant	Charlottesville, VA
UX Designer	Sugar Land, TX
Vice President Sales ( IT Recruitment /BPO/BiG DATA)	Hoffman Estates, IL

See all 1,737 job postings

Luminate - A lot of companies have put ads alongside images, but Luminate is a Mountain View, CA based company that is putting them in the actual images.

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Job Title	Location
Development Assistant	Boston, MA
Digital Communications Strategist	Boston, MA
Communications Coordinator	Baltimore, MD
Product Manager	Mountain View, CA
Digital Media Coordinator	Philadelphia, PA

See all 50 job postings

Square Root - Square Root is an Austin, TX based company that has developed “a single platform to improve operations and performance throughout franchise networks.”

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Job Title	Location
Product Quality Engineer 1	Reno, NV
Site Automation Specialist	Austin, TX
Maintenance Supervisor - 3rd Shift Job	Kankakee, IL
Environmental, Health and Safety Manager Job	West Plains, MO
Plant Manager	Browerville, MN

See all 268 job postings

Trefis - Trefis is a Boston, MA based company that has developed a set of tools that “helps you understand how a company’s products impact its stock price.”

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Job Title	Location
Web Startup Marketing Intern	Boston, MA
Lead Product Manager	Boston, MA
User Experience Designer / Product Lead	Boston, MA
Java engineer	Boston, MA
Front end developer/designer	Boston, MA

See all 8 job postings

Betaworks - Betaworks is an NYC company that works "to create beneficial and transformative products for the socially connected world.”

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Job Title	Location
Giphy - Full Stack Web Developer	New York, NY
Alphaworks - PR & Marketing Associate	New York, NY
Account Manager	New York, NY
Alphaworks - Community Manager	New York, NY
Giphy - Graphic Designer	New York, NY

See all 32 job postings

Sojern - Sojern is based in San Francisco and has developed a travel-focused “robust audience engagement platform [that] is powered by machine-learning technology."

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Job Title	Location
Business Development Analyst	San Francisco, CA
Account Manager	New York, NY
Account Executive, Airline Vertical	New York, NY
Junior Visual Designer	San Francisco, CA
Technical Operations Specialist - New York	New York, NY

See all 17 job postings

Tradesy - Tradesy is a Santa Monica, CA based marketplace for new and gently used fashion that can “turn your closet into cash.”

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Job Title	Location
Ecommerce transactional website	California

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Gameloft - Gameloft is a New York, NY based company that allows its “fans to play games anywhere, anytime, and on any digital platform.”

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Job Title	Location
Production Intern	New York, NY
Game Design Intern	Seattle, WA
Artist Intern	Seattle, WA
Intern Programmers	Seattle, WA
3D Generalist Artist	Seattle, WA

See all 34 job postings

Ahalogy - Ahalogy is a Cincinnati, OH based company that is “pioneering the science of discovery on Pinterest.”

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Job Title	Location
Client Success Director	Cincinnati, OH
Sales Director	Dallas, TX
Inside Sales Representative	Cincinnati, OH
Sales Director	San Francisco, CA
Sales Director	New York, NY

See all 9 job postings

Liferay - Liferay is a Diamond Bar, CA based company that helps clients “build modern websites and portals to engage customers, partners, and employees.”

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Job Title	Location
Java Portal Developer	Minneapolis, MN
SharePoint JAVA Javascript .net Developer US Citizen req.	Stennis Space Center, MS
Software Engineer	Los Angeles, CA
Environment Analyst with Puppet exp required in IL	Lincolnshire, IL
Software QA Engineer - Selenium -	Nashua, NH

See all 383 job postings

Wanderful Media - Wanderful Media, based in Los Gatos, CA, is aiming “to transform the $4 billion business of traditional advertising circulars through digital innovation."

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Job Title	Location
Development Intern	Chico, CA
Customer Acquisition Ad Specialist	Los Gatos, CA
Software Engineer	Los Gatos, CA
HR Generalist	Chico, CA
Product Manager, Mobile and Tablet	Los Gatos, CA

See all 7 job postings

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