Viget Labs - We Build Web Business

Summer Web Design Intern

Viget Labs is a full-service web consulting, design, and development firm based in Falls Church, VA, with a regional office in Durham, NC. We've been at it since 1999 and have earned a solid reputation as a rare firm that does both great design and development work when building award-winning web sites. We work with web start-ups (e.g, Squidoo, Loladex, ODEO, Razoo, PaytheFan), a number of non-profits (e.g., EarthEcho, Healthy Child, Holy Cross Family Ministries), as well as businesses in industries as varied as entertainment, hospitality, retirement planning, and telecom.

We participate in the DC and Triangle design communities by attending and sponsoring events like Refresh-DC, Refresh the Triangle, and DC Design Talks. We created teamviget.com to give you a sense for our culture and design style. If you have what it takes, you should apply for our highly selective summer internship.

Our Web Design Interns will be expected to:

• Speak, breathe, and love the web.
• Demonstrate impressive talent in design/layout, HTML, XHTML, and CSS.
• Jump at the opportunity to work with industry leaders.
• Know the importance of accessibility, usability, and web standards.
• Yearn for the chance to work with a talented team on web sites, email campaigns, and web apps.
• See endless possibilities on a blank canvas, but also appreciate direction and mentorship.
• Work proficiently with Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design software.
• Read and discuss industry-leading blog posts, articles, and books.

You must also:

• Provide an online portfolio of your web design work that makes us say, "wow."
• Include details of your responsibilities and accomplishments for each portfolio sample.
• Have a career plan that resembles, "Be an exceptional web designer."
• Provide an error-free resume.  

Our internships are designed for talented, motivated, and ambitious students who plan to have a career as a web designer or developer. We expect interns to see this as a rare opportunity to work with industry leaders and prove themselves as potential future leaders. Like Viget employees, interns need to have a solid work ethic, serious professional drive, and a passion for the web. Our goal is to identify promising interns whom we can possibly recruit as full-time employees when they finish school; accordingly, preference will be given to rising seniors.

Interns will be expected to work 40 hours per week for a minimum of eight weeks. Viget believes deeply in knowledge-sharing and education; therefore, training will be a big part ofthe internship experience. However, we are interested in applicants who can provide value to projects immediately and who will work hard to ensure they consistently contribute to the company throughout their internship.

How To Apply

If you plan to apply, please follow the application instructions carefully.

We intend to hire one Designer Intern for each of our locations this summer:

• For VA (Falls Church), send resumes to jobs.va@viget.com
• For NC (Durham), send resumes to jobs.nc@viget.com.

We will be in touch quickly if your resume and portfolio match what’s outlined above. So, knock our socks off already.

EOE.

For our latest insights on web design and to get to know some of the people you would be working with here, check out the "Design" category in the Four Labs blog.

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