Fall 2025 Design Internship

Deeplocal is looking for a Design Intern with a focus on interactive experience design to join the team for Fall 2025.

Deeplocal pushes the boundaries of interactive experiences for some of the worlds top brands. Design interns work alongside experience designers creative marketing strategists and technologists to develop and refine creative concepts. Our interns contribute to the artistic vision of real-world physical experiences environments and exhibits through hands-on learning and application of their skills with mentorship from top professionals in the field.

Experience Design interns collaboratively support the creation of experiences that tell a strategic story and look visually-stunning all while meeting the clients goals. This typically looks like:

• Concept Visualization - Communicate abstract concepts with compelling visuals and demonstrate strong physical and visual design skillsincluding the ability to visualize ideas through sketches and/or renderings.
• Pitch/RFP Support - Support the pitch and RFP response process with secondary research deck design sketching modeling and mood board development.
• Persona and User Journey Support - Assist creative team members and strategists in secondary research developing personas creating user journeys and thinking about how people move about around a space.
• Physical Interaction Design - Work with the creative team members and creative technologists to design spatial interactions environments and physical objects (from early sketches to full visual models and detailed interaction design).
• Digital Design (UX / UI / Motion Design) - Prototype and express design/motion approach across 2D/3D animation interaction design and visual effects.
• Visual Design - Prepare finish material sample boards physical models and graphic presentations for client approval. Create and iterate original designs (print environmental etc.) based on internal direction.

Interns are compensated with competitive wages. For credit options are also available if desired. All design internships are based in our studio in Pittsburgh PA.

Desired Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must
• Interest in a combination of strategy and design developing a holistic narrative vision for a space
• Experience designing spatial interactions environments and physical objects
• Experience expressing creative ideas through mockups mood boards styleframes and motion prototypes.
• Proficient in a 3D modeling software (SketchUp Rhino or Fusion preferred)
• An awareness of current aesthetic cultural and popular trends
• A strong understanding of marketing and experience crafting concepts in response to creative marketing briefs is strongly preferred

About Deeplocal

Deeplocal is an internationally-recognized innovation studio based in Pittsburgh PA. Our team includes experts in marketing engineering design and fabrication who collaborate to develop never-seen-before physical experiences for brand clients.

Deeplocal has been behind some of advertisings most talked about campaigns: the Netflix Switch Google Photos Pay With A Photo and the Nike Chalkbot. From creating a mind-controlled bike that allowed riders to shift with their thoughts to building a robotic pitching machine that allowed a child to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game from thousands of miles away to a single button that dims the lights orders food silencers your phone and puts on your favorite show our projects are wide-ranging and work has been featured on Fast Company Wired NYTimes USA Today the Today Show Good Morning America Gizmodo Engadget Forbes and many more.

Deeplocals studio is located in a renovated brewery loft space in Sharpsburg PAjust outside of Pittsburgh and within a few minutes of Lawrenceville. All team members at Deeplocal contribute and participate in work for our amazing roster of clients.

Our Mission

Invent products and experiences for innovative brands.

Our Purpose

To be a place where amazing talent can invent create and inspire.

Our Core Values

Deeplocal is committed to maintaining the companys core values and culture as the company grows. Employees should exhibit the following Deeplocal core values:

• Inventive
• Impactful
• Resourceful
• Humble
• Efficient