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Design HBCU Fellowship

Remote

Design HBCU Fellowship

Remote

We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Design Fellow to gain hands-on experience across all aspects of the agency business while providing invaluable support to our creative team. Taylor’s Design HBCU Fellowship is a paid post-undergraduate, six-month, remote fellowship program.  

Taylor provides real-world professional experience, development, and career-readiness fellowships to post-undergraduates and master’s students from accredited historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

As a Taylor Fellow, you are open minded, ready to learn, and motivated to start your career in the PR, social, and digital marketing industry.  You’re excited to join a multifaceted group of colleagues that embrace diversity of thought as a means to enhance innovation and collaboration in all we do.

 

Responsibilities and learning opportunities: 

As a Taylor Fellow, you will gain hands-on agency experience through an in-depth training program, a dedicated manager, professional development and networking opportunities, and the day-to-day responsibilities and learning opportunities outlined below. 

Shape

  • Use strong understanding of evolving design principles and a client’s business, brand, and industry, to offer and develop contemporary design ideas that meet client business needs
  • Remain current on marketing, design, technology, user experience, and cultural trends, and infuses this knowledge into all design work
  • Collaborate effectively with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to provide ongoing counsel to mid-level clients, and to bring ideas to life through unconventional thinking and design innovation
  • Actively participate in creative ideation and planning for digital & social content, motion graphics, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
  • Effectively refine ideas into integrated visual systems that deliver against defined objectives

Make

  • Execute thoughtful, polished designs across various mediums including digital/social content, motion graphics, print, photography, brand identity systems, presentations, infographics, etc.
  • Demonstrate accountability and ownership for all design work on assigned projects, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams of account/PR, strategy, and production to execute that drives business impact
  • Self-edit design work in progress, incorporate feedback and direction from senior team members, and collaborate with them to evolve and elevate your work
  • Work on multiple workstreams/assignments simultaneously, ensure that all work fits together as part of the broader strategy and/or brand identity system

Communication and Storytelling

  • Partner with copywriting to design and create concepted ideas
  • Design logos and sketches out ideas or layouts
  • Produce mood boards, mockups, and engaging, innovative and effective design solutions
  • Pitch creative ideas
  • Write, present, and communicate in a polished and persuasive manner across all mediums, internally and externally
  • Communicate well with internal colleagues to explain creative ideas and respond to questions or concerns

Concepting

  • Actively participate in creative ideation for digital & social content, event activations, brand identity systems, print materials, and other campaign elements
  • Ensure that ideas/concepts fit together as part of the broader strategy and brand identity
  • Assist in quick-turn ideas that tap into a culture or a specific moment in time

 

Requirements of this fellowship program:

  • This is a post-undergraduate opportunity open to: 
    • Recent graduates who hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited HBCU
    • Those who are currently completing a master’s program or hold a master’s degree from an accredited HBCU
  • Prior experience/internships at PR, Advertising, Digital/Social Marketing, Creative agencies or relevant coursework 
  • A conceptual visual thinker with a portfolio of work that is contemporary, on trend, and reflects a wide range of design influence
  • Experience working across a wide range of media including digital/social, print, event/experiential, brand identity systems, etc.
  • Strong skills in Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator, PowerPoint and Keynote
  • Basic skills/knowledge of key principles of typography and fonts
  • Experience in UX design and/or front-end development is a plus
  • Basic understanding of advertising and marketing principles
  • Strong attention to detail, organization, multitasking, and time-management
  • Team player who enjoys working with and helping others in a collaborative environment
  • Curious and open to others' ideas and viewpoints with a willingness to learn and take constructive feedback
  • A good problem solver who seeks to make improvements and learns from mistakes 

 

Additional Details: 

  • Full-time (35-40hrs/week), Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET 
  • Must be a recent college graduate, a graduate school student, and/or a student who has recently completed a master’s program at an accredited HBCU
  • Paid fellowship: $4,166.68 per each month worked, less applicable deductions and withholdings (based on an annual equivalent salary of $50k)
  • Includes Paid Time Off, Holidays, and additional perks
  • Fellowship begins 1/8/2025, and will go through 6/27/2025

 

About Taylor 

Taylor is a purpose-led marketing communications agency that has shaped possibilities for the world's leading brands for four decades. Our heritage in public relations and deep sports & entertainment expertise fuels breakthrough creativity across the entire media ecosystem.

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