Summer Intern 2025 - Design and Strategy
Summer Intern 2025 - Design and Strategy
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Job Description
Overview
Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving clientfocused missiondriven excellence. Steampunk is the explosive collision of customercentered design and traditional government contracting. We are an employeeowned company with a startup mindset and timetested approaches tailored for the federal government. Were passionate about creating solutions that are impactful practical and scalable while meeting our clients everchanging needs. We believe in empowering our teams to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone. We believe that while good design makes for a good product customercentered design makes for an excellent one.
Contributions
What youll do:
As a Design & Strategy intern you will learn about our Design Intelligence framework and how to incorporate customercentered methods to deliver a quality experiences at speed. Your typical day may include:
- Planning and conducting user research including user and stakeholder interviews facilitated workshops and cocreation sessions
- Synthesizing research to develop artifacts like personas and journey maps
- Developing and iterating on possible solutions through prototyping and wireframing
- Planning and conducting usertesting sessions
- Organizing your work in Agile sprints and attending daily stand ups to coordinate with project manager and/or design lead
- Preparing artifacts and deliverables for presentations and feedback sessions
What youll learn:
- Participatory design methods to understand customer needs and articulate problems and pain points
- How to iterate and improve on ideas and processes
- How to plan your work in an efficient and agile way
- How to collaborate across different team roles and functions
- How to articulate design decisions and present your work to stakeholders
What youll experience:
- A work culture like no other where design is valued and at the center of everything we do
- An exciting and collaborative studio environment
- Direct mentorship from leadership
- Exposure to various disciplines both in design and other core technical capabilities
- Group social events that promote networking relationship building comradery and service
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- This internship is in person; you must be able to work from our Design Intelligence studio in Tysons Corner Virginia at least 3 days/week
- Rising third year student or above with a concentration in UX Design User Interface/Interaction Design Product Design Service Design Organizational Change or Instructional Design
- Critical thinking skills a collaborative nature and a curiosity for solving complex problems
About steampunk
Steampunkis aChange Agentin the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through ourHumanCentered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As anemployee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by participates in the EVerify program.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Unclear
