Brand Design Ref XE-BRD-110 Closes in 6 days

Design Intern

Six months inside real client work, with a mentor, a learning plan and work that ships.

Illustrative opening — hiring confirms the details before it opens.

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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
Closes
6 days left

About the role

This is not a coffee-and-mockups internship. You will join a live brand team for six months, with a named mentor and a written learning plan, and your work will reach clients.

You will learn how a brand system is built and run, how we use AI design tools and — just as important — how we check what they produce. 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 engagements
  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 studio critique

A typical week

Where the hours go in an ordinary week, and which parts agents carry. Whatever an agent drafts or checks, a person decides 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, real pieces of live work, critiqued as you go.

    You14 h

  2. Production files and assets

    An agent prepares resized variants; you check every one against the brand rules before it goes out.

    You, with an agent drafting12 h

  3. Learning-plan sessions

    The skills your plan sets for the month: type, layout, systems, 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 what they produce.

    You, with an agent drafting4 h

  5. Studio critique

    You present your work every week, and critique others’.

    You4 h

An illustrative split, not a timesheet. The hiring lead walks you through the real one in your first conversation.

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

Never a reason to rule anyone out. If you have most of the list above and none of this, apply.

Tools you will use

Grouped by what they are for. Nobody knows all of them on day one.

Collaboration & design
  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Notion

Technologies we work with and license — not partnerships.

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 piece of a live system designed by you, critiqued by the team

  3. Weeks 9–12

    Your mid-point review: what you have shipped 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

The places this role can be based. Each team agrees its own studio days; remote roles meet in a studio for a team week each quarter.

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

    Studio

    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, every month
  • A laptop and licences for the duration

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 you would join

Brand Design, the practice behind this role.

Strategists and designers who build brand foundations, identities and the systems that keep them consistent — with brand-check agents enforcing the rules they write.

Open roles in this practice
3 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 real 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.

Ways in, and ways up
  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 rung

L2 · Associate — A deliverable. Ships reliably with review.

How we hire for this role

5 steps, and a reply after every one.

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

  1. Within 5 working days

    Step 1: Read

    A practitioner in the practice reads your application — your links first, your CV second. No keyword filter, no agency.

  2. Week 1 · 45 min

    Step 2: Conversation

    The hiring lead: the role, your work, and the level and salary band — before you invest more time in us.

  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, and never unpaid spec work.

    Work sample · the brief

  4. Week 3 · half a day

    Step 4: Team day

    Meet the people you would work with, in a studio or on video. Ask them anything; they will answer honestly.

  5. Week 3–4

    Step 5: Offer

    In writing, with the level, the salary, the full benefits and a start date that suits you. No exploding deadlines.

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. We read for substance, not polish.

Adjustments. Extra time, questions in advance, captions, a different format — tell us on the form or by email. Asking never counts against you.

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