WEBTOON Entertainment is a leading global entertainment company and home to some of the world’s largest storytelling platforms. As the global leader and pioneer of the mobile webcomic format, WEBTOON Entertainment has transformed comics and visual storytelling for fans and creators.
With its CANVAS UGC platform empowering anyone to become a creator, and a growing roster of superstar WEBTOON Originals creators and series, WEBTOON Entertainment’s passionate fandoms are the new face of pop culture. WEBTOON adaptations are available on Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, and other screens around the world, and the company’s content partners include Discord, HYBE and DC Comics, among many others.
WEBTOON is offering a paid internship to an exceptional student or recent graduate. As a visual design intern, you will be fully integrated into the Creative Team, tackling exciting work that intersects the rigor of brand marketing with cutting edge entertainment storytelling. You’ll get real-world experience in a diverse, international company and contribute to building how WEBTOON communicates and engages with its fast-growing US / Latin American audience. This internship requires out-of-the-box thinking, problem solving, excellent communication skills, and a passion for introducing WEBTOON’s characters and stories to new audiences.
The length of the program will be determined prior to start by the department lead and the successful candidate.
Please note: A working online portfolio is required to be considered for this role.
What You Will Do:
- Work closely with creative leads, design/motion members, and WEBTOON stakeholders in a highly-collaborative, inclusive, and fast-paced environment.
- Create eye-catching, elegant designs that will be readers’ first look at our exciting new and current WEBTOON series.
- Learn and execute the global brand style guide across multiple social and digital channels.
- Stay up-to-date with current design trends and translate those trends to promote our exciting series lineup.
- Juggle multiple priorities from stakeholders while maintaining clear communication with
- teammates to ensure projects are completed on-time and according to design standards.
Who You Are:
- A visual design student/ graduate looking to break into the entertainment, advertising, technology, media or gaming industries.
- Have great typography, color, and layout samples with a portfolio of coursework/ personal projects that demonstrates ability in digital design.
- You are a master of Photoshop and Illustrator, with extra bonus points given if you have print, merch, and indesign experience.
- A team player who strives to design to engage and delight our WEBTOON readers from the heart
- You have a passion for pop culture! (Comics, games, television, animation, film etc.)
- Someone who stays on trend with meme and is comfortable pitching ideas to different stakeholders
$17 – $17.28 an hour
*Please note the salary mentioned is in USD.
With approximately 170 million monthly active users, WEBTOON Entertainment’s IP & Creator Ecosystem of aligned companies include WEBTOON, Wattpad–the world’s leading webnovel platform–Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Studio N, Studio LICO, WEBTOON Unscrolled, LINE MANGA, and eBookJapan, among others.
Join us and work with some of the biggest artists, IP, and fandoms in comics!
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