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Marketing Internship - Graphic Designer / Art Director
carta • San Francisco, CA
Posted: February 24, 2026
Job Description
The Problems You'll Solve
The 10-Week "North Star" Project
We’re true creatives at heart; at the end of this Internship, our goal is to have you leave with a portfolio-worthy win that you can show off proudly for years to come. Your internship will focus on the evolution of our Brand Design System.
Great brands have a functional and flexible design system that’s both usable across the business and engineered for the modern age. You’ll be responsible for auditing, designing, and building out a Figma-based Brand Asset Library. This includes:
- The Component Refresh: Auditing our current social, email, and presentation templates and rebuilding them into high-functioning Figma components.
- The Mini-Campaign: Applying your new system to a real-world business initiative (e.g., a Q3 product launch or seasonal brand campaign).
- The Hand-off: Presenting your library to the wider marketing team and creating "How-to" documentation to ensure your work lives on after your 10 weeks.
What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
- Support the senior design team with junior-level production work (social assets, digital ads, presentation decks, and ebooks).
- Participate in creative brainstorm sessions—we want your eyes and your opinions.
- Master the art of Figma auto-layout and component properties (we’ll teach you, but you should be ready to dive in).
- Collaborate with your Manager and Mentor to navigate the transition from in-office collaboration to remote execution.
The Team You'll Work With
At Carta, the Creative Team is hard at work building a world-class brand that scales seamlessly across a diverse range of projects — from visual ID and branding work, to paid ad campaigns and ground-up narrative storytelling.
To help us in that mission, we’re looking for an ambitious Brand Design intern who’s ready to move beyond “making things look pretty” and help us architect a system that scales across the whole business.
Support & Mentorship
We know the first few weeks are a whirlwind. You will be paired with:
- A Manager: To guide your project scope, provide technical feedback, and ensure your work aligns with business goals.
- A Mentor: A dedicated peer designer to help you navigate our tool stack (Figma, Slack, project management) and give you the "unfiltered" scoop on how to succeed here.
Program At-a-Glance
Location: San Francisco (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mandatory in-office)
Duration: 10 Weeks (June 8, 2026 – August 14, 2026)
Commitment: 40 hours per week
Compensation: $25.00/hour
About You
At Carta, the Creative Team is hard at work building a world-class brand that scales seamlessly across a diverse range of projects — from visual ID and branding work, to paid ad campaigns and ground-up narrative storytelling.
To help us in that mission, we’re looking for an ambitious Brand Design intern who’s ready to move beyond “making things look pretty” and help us architect a system that scales across the whole business.
Ideally, you’re a savant in Figma with an eye for pixel-perfect design that pushes the narrative envelope. You thrive at getting your hands dirty in complex design problems, and are excited by the idea of producing everything from campaign assets and component libraries to ground-up system elements that are flexible, beautiful, and (most importantly) empower our partners across the company to self-serve their own materials. Bonus points if you have experience with DAM systems (in particular, Frontify).
To excel in this role, you’ll need to bring expertise at not only organizing assets into templates that make production seamless across the organization, but educating internal partners (including those on your own Creative Team) about how best to leverage those tools to help scale their day-to-day work.
Finally, you’re a born problem solver with a proactive mindset, geared toward finding solutions instead of waiting for them. The team you’re joining cares deeply about collaboration, positivity, and maintaining a supportive culture — if you thrive when partnering with marketers, product managers, and other creatives to find out-of-the-box solutions to hard problems, you’ll fit right in.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to connect.
Qualifications
- Recent graduate or final year student in Graphic Design, Advertising Art Direction or similar.
- A strong graphic design portfolio that demonstrates excellent taste levels and command of form, composition, typography, color. Only candidates providing a digital portfolio will be considered.
- Foundational knowledge of Figma and Adobe Photoshop (you know your way around a canvas).
- A "figure-it-out" mentality—you aren't afraid to ask questions or watch a tutorial to solve a problem.
- Availability to be in-office during June and parts of August.
Additional Content
The Problems You'll Solve
The 10-Week "North Star" Project
We’re true creatives at heart; at the end of this Internship, our goal is to have you leave with a portfolio-worthy win that you can show off proudly for years to come. Your internship will focus on the evolution of our Brand Design System.
Great brands have a functional and flexible design system that’s both usable across the business and engineered for the modern age. You’ll be responsible for auditing, designing, and building out a Figma-based Brand Asset Library. This includes:
- The Component Refresh: Auditing our current social, email, and presentation templates and rebuilding them into high-functioning Figma components.
- The Mini-Campaign: Applying your new system to a real-world business initiative (e.g., a Q3 product launch or seasonal brand campaign).
- The Hand-off: Presenting your library to the wider marketing team and creating "How-to" documentation to ensure your work lives on after your 10 weeks.
What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
- Support the senior design team with junior-level production work (social assets, digital ads, presentation decks, and ebooks).
- Participate in creative brainstorm sessions—we want your eyes and your opinions.
- Master the art of Figma auto-layout and component properties (we’ll teach you, but you should be ready to dive in).
- Collaborate with your Manager and Mentor to navigate the transition from in-office collaboration to remote execution.
The Team You'll Work With
At Carta, the Creative Team is hard at work building a world-class brand that scales seamlessly across a diverse range of projects — from visual ID and branding work, to paid ad campaigns and ground-up narrative storytelling.
To help us in that mission, we’re looking for an ambitious Brand Design intern who’s ready to move beyond “making things look pretty” and help us architect a system that scales across the whole business.
Support & Mentorship
We know the first few weeks are a whirlwind. You will be paired with:
- A Manager: To guide your project scope, provide technical feedback, and ensure your work aligns with business goals.
- A Mentor: A dedicated peer designer to help you navigate our tool stack (Figma, Slack, project management) and give you the "unfiltered" scoop on how to succeed here.
Program At-a-Glance
Location: San Francisco (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mandatory in-office)
Duration: 10 Weeks (June 8, 2026 – August 14, 2026)
Commitment: 40 hours per week
Compensation: $25.00/hour
About You
At Carta, the Creative Team is hard at work building a world-class brand that scales seamlessly across a diverse range of projects — from visual ID and branding work, to paid ad campaigns and ground-up narrative storytelling.
To help us in that mission, we’re looking for an ambitious Brand Design intern who’s ready to move beyond “making things look pretty” and help us architect a system that scales across the whole business.
Ideally, you’re a savant in Figma with an eye for pixel-perfect design that pushes the narrative envelope. You thrive at getting your hands dirty in complex design problems, and are excited by the idea of producing everything from campaign assets and component libraries to ground-up system elements that are flexible, beautiful, and (most importantly) empower our partners across the company to self-serve their own materials. Bonus points if you have experience with DAM systems (in particular, Frontify).
To excel in this role, you’ll need to bring expertise at not only organizing assets into templates that make production seamless across the organization, but educating internal partners (including those on your own Creative Team) about how best to leverage those tools to help scale their day-to-day work.
Finally, you’re a born problem solver with a proactive mindset, geared toward finding solutions instead of waiting for them. The team you’re joining cares deeply about collaboration, positivity, and maintaining a supportive culture — if you thrive when partnering with marketers, product managers, and other creatives to find out-of-the-box solutions to hard problems, you’ll fit right in.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to connect.
Qualifications
- Recent graduate or final year student in Graphic Design, Advertising Art Direction or similar.
- A strong graphic design portfolio that demonstrates excellent taste levels and command of form, composition, typography, color. Only candidates providing a digital portfolio will be considered.
- Foundational knowledge of Figma and Adobe Photoshop (you know your way around a canvas).
- A "figure-it-out" mentality—you aren't afraid to ask questions or watch a tutorial to solve a problem.
- Availability to be in-office during June and parts of August.