Our internship programme offers a one month placement in one of our core disciplines - creative and strategy - and is intended to provide aspiring brand thinkers with a holistic introduction to agency life. You’ll get involved with our live brand projects, working alongside the team to get under the skin of our clients and suss out what they’re all about, and then coming up with ideas for creative solutions to their commercial and cultural challenges. Whichever discipline you choose, you’ll work with a senior lead who will guide you through our approach, the role and its responsibilities - but they’re also there to challenge you too! Our internships should challenge you - sometimes leading to an idea that will shatter our own thinking, and other times things are going to end up in the bin (and that’s totally OK!). As an inherently creative team, we think everyone should have the opportunity to sink their teeth into big challenges and the space to create big ideas. Whilst there are a lot of perks to agency life here - from office dogs to beer fridges - we work hard and bloody love what we do. We’re looking for ambitious talent; people who are at the beginning of their journey into brand and design who are hungry to find out more. Our internship programme is designed to be a bridge from school or uni into the industry (or even a space to explore a total career change) and a chance for you to explore what brand means to businesses like Aon, Fujitsu, Google, Helpforce and more. Working 9-5 is a way to make a living, because we pay all our interns the Brighton Living Wage (£9/hour)... and we promise that is the only Dolly Parton joke we’ll make for at least a week. There’s no guaranteed job at the end of the programme, but if something does come up - our interns are obviously best placed to know about it.

Strategy & Planning

Calling all curious minds: the strategy and planning internship offers a chance to delve into the world of brand through the lens of research, account management, diagnosis, planning and strategy. People who ask questions, who relish the opportunity to be nosey, to learn about a whole new industry or discipline inside out. Highly organised with great communication skills, the strategy and planning department is very client-facing. Bit of a generalist but always great at joining the dots and finding solutions? Maybe strategy & planning is for you.

Creative

Want the opportunity to flex your creative muscles and explore the power of design and ideas in the world of brand? This internship is a chance to solve big challenges through design in all its shapes and forms (and colours, obviously). Aspiring designers, illustrators, photographers, typographers, motion graphics artists and more. If you cannot put down the pencil (or stylus) because you’re full of ideas and exploration - then a creative internship might be the one for you. You’ll be on the receiving end of creative briefs from the strategy & planning team, and working alongside our creative team to come up with ideas and execute polished artwork.

Development

We don’t offer an internship within our development team (yet), but if you are an underrepresented person who would like to embark on a career in development, we highly recommend you check out one of the these organisations who can provide you with mentorship and support along your journey. We’re committed to diversifying our industry, and proudly support our local chapter of Codebar.
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We're looking for the next designers to join our team. This is an open vacancy and the role will be filled when we find the right person.

Purpose:

The role is a collaborative one that is also at the very forefront of the creative output of the business.  It is integral to UnitedUs requiring a safe pair of hands combined with an innovative and progressive approach to creative. Creativity is the foundation of UnitedUs and as a designer, you are at the forefront of the creative output of the business. Working in partnership with the Creative and Digital Directors you are responsible for the visual look of creative work delivered for our clients. Your role is one that requires new thinking, bold ideas and creative leaps of faith of a daily basis whilst also have safe hands to deliver client briefs, on time and to their specification. You will also be a valued and vocal part of the creative team, working collaboratively with the digital designer, lead developer, account managers and more. You will be a part of the heart of UnitedUs and it’s your opportunity to spend your days being creative and pushing the envelope both internally and externally for our clients.

Job role:

• To work closely with the Senior Creative Team to devise, design and deliver brilliant campaigns that will capture attention, engage audiences and compel them to take action.
• To focus predominantly on print and offline based creative projects.
• To  be a vocal and active part of the creative branding process and meetings, contributing ideas, new creative treatments and creative opportunities to the team and to Senior Creative Team colleagues.
• To  take ownership of the print aspects of UnitedUs, be involved in brand and creative discussions and bring ideas that focus on the use of print techniques to creatively engage audiences.
• To demonstrate  the passion to be the champion of the brands created and to take them from concept and build to a working, finalised brand
• Build and develop knowledge of the print production process and the differences between lithographic and digital print capabilities
• Responsibility for keeping UnitedUs at the forefront of technologies and techniques in the print industry
• Build and develop proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite and show consideration to  future technologies and their benefits for UnitedUs.

Personality:

Designers are the life-blood of the agency and are what UnitedUs are defined by in the eyes of the clients. Therefore this person needs to be someone who loves a creative challenge and is willing to question existing creative thinking  with ideas and outcomes. It needs a personality that lives and breathes creativity, someone who loves to sniff a book for the paper smell, and spend an oddly long amount of time looking at the reflection of print in the ‘right light’. It needs someone who is  driven by beautifully crafted typography and the alignment of image grids. It is  a vital cog in the UnitedUs creative team wheel and ideas that enhance the outcomes of the projects should stem from them,  with conviction.

Role requirements:

Proven ability to manage time and juggle a wide variety of projects at once.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to forge lasting and fruitful relationships with both clients and supplier partners
• A high level of creative portfolio
• A high standard of English language written and spoken
• A strong understanding of print techniques and examples of delivering technically challenging print projects

Job perks:

UnitedUs recognises that our dedicated team help the business to achieve ambitious goals by going the extra mile. We, in turn reward their dedication and commitment by building a culture of reward for our people who are fully supportive of the organisation and the place we want to build. The role of a Designer is one that is embedded in the bedrock of the UnitedUs business and the qualities essential in the role underly everything that UnitedUs achieves. With this in mind we are offering the following:

• Pension contribution
• Profit share potential
• Social events with the UnitedUs team
• 25 days holiday
• Weekly breakfast
• Team dinners
• Refreshment fridge
• Monthly massage available
• And many more

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