Brand Design Ref XE-BRD-110 Closed

Design Intern

A six-month design internship in Ludhiana for final-year students and recent graduates, on live client projects with a named mentor and a learning plan.

This role closed to applications on 10 Oct 2026.

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The practiceBrand Design
Practice
Brand Design
Location
Ludhiana
Work pattern
On-site
Level
Intern
Type
Internship
Experience
Final-year student or recent graduate
Salary band
₹25,000 a month stipend Indicative
Openings
3
Posted
Closed

About the role

You will spend six months in a brand team on identity and campaign work that reaches clients. A written learning plan, agreed with your mentor, guides each month.

You will learn how a brand system is built, how we use AI design tools and how we check their output. Interns who do well are offered a place on our early-careers track.

What you will do

  1. Support identity and campaign design on live client projects
  2. Prepare assets, templates and production files
  3. Learn to run AI design tools and review their output against brand rules
  4. Present your work at the weekly design critique

A typical week

How the hours split in a typical week. Agents draft and check some tasks; you decide what happens next.

Design Intern 40 hours in a typical week
  • You24 h · 60%
  • You, with an agent drafting16 h · 40%

  1. Design tasks with your mentor

    Small pieces of live client work, critiqued as you go.

    You14 h

  2. Production files and assets

    An agent resizes assets; you check each version against the brand rules before release.

    You, with an agent drafting12 h

  3. Learning-plan sessions

    The skills your plan sets for the month: type, layout, systems and tools.

    You6 h

  4. Learning to run and check AI design tools

    You try the tools on practice briefs and learn what to check in their output.

    You, with an agent drafting4 h

  5. Design critique

    You present your work every week and critique other people’s.

    You4 h

An illustrative split. In your first conversation, the hiring lead talks you through how the week runs.

What you bring

  • Final-year student or recent graduate in design or a related field
  • A portfolio of personal or academic work: quality over quantity
  • Curiosity and care for detail
  • Available for six months on site in Ludhiana

Nice to have

  • Some motion or 3D
  • Basic HTML and CSS

None of this is required. If you have most of the list above, apply.

Tools you will use

Grouped by purpose. Nobody knows all of them on day one.

Collaboration & design
  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Notion

Tools we work with and license. No partnership is implied.

Your first 90 days

  1. Weeks 1–4

    A learning plan agreed with your mentor, and your first production files in a client delivery

  2. Weeks 5–8

    A small part of a live brand system, designed by you and critiqued by the team

  3. Weeks 9–12

    Your mid-point review: what you have delivered and what you will own next

A hand-drawn goal review on dot-grid paper: tallies for weeks one to eleven beside an assess-and-plan column, two pens resting on the page.
The plan is written down before your first day, and you review it with your lead as the weeks go by.

Where you would work

Where this role can be based. Each team agrees its own office days; remote roles join a team week in an office each quarter.

  • Traffic at a busy junction in Dugri, Ludhiana, seen from a rooftop among trees.

    Office

    Ludhiana

    Two floors on Ferozepur Road, opposite Hotel Park Plaza.

    Pictured: Ludhiana (Dugri)

How and where we work

What we offer

With this role

  • A monthly stipend, paid on time
  • A laptop and software licences for the internship

With every role

  • Health and family

    Medical insurance · Parental leave · Mental health

  • Time

    Paid leave · Winter break · Flexible days

  • Growth

    Learning budget · Growth reviews · Internal moves

  • Setup

    Your own machine · Home office · Team weeks

The full benefits schedule

The team

Brand Design, the practice behind this role.

Strategists and designers who create brand strategy and identities, and write the rules that brand-check agents apply to every asset.

Open roles in this practice
2 on the board
Based in
New Delhi · Ludhiana
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The practice at work Brand Design

What Brand Design delivers for clients

About Brand Design

Where this role sits

L1 of 6 · Intern

Owns a task. Learns the craft on client work, with a mentor.

Each level is defined by the scope you own, not years served. Growth reviews twice a year measure you against the six standards at your level.

See career paths
  1. This role L1 Intern A task
  2. L2 Associate A deliverable
  3. L3 Mid A feature
  4. L4 Senior A workstream
  5. L5 Lead An engagement
  6. L6 Principal A practice

Next level

L2 · Associate — A deliverable. Delivers reliably, with review.

How we hire

5 steps, and a reply after every one.

The five stages we use for every role. Timings are targets; if one slips, we tell you.

  1. Within 5 working days

    Step 1: Read

    Someone from the practice reads your application, links first and CV second, with no keyword filter or recruitment agency.

  2. Week 1 · 45 min

    Step 2: Conversation

    The hiring lead talks through the role and your work, and states the level and salary band before you invest more time.

  3. Week 2 · 2–3 h, paid

    Step 3: Work sample

    A short exercise close to the job, or a deep review of work you have already done, paid either way.

    Work sample · the brief

  4. Week 3 · half a day

    Step 4: Team day

    Meet the people you would work with, in an office or on video, and ask them anything.

  5. Week 3–4

    Step 5: Offer

    A written offer with the level, salary, full benefits and a start date that suits you, and time to decide.

What helps an application

  • A link to work you made, with your own part in it named.
  • One project you could talk through for half an hour.
  • If you used AI, a line on how you checked what it produced.
  • Plain words are fine. We read for substance.

Adjustments. Need extra time, questions in advance, captions or another format? Tell us on the form or by email. Asking never counts against you.

Next step

If no role fits, tell us what you would build.

Someone in the practice you choose reads your application like any other and replies either way.

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