2024 Spring - User Experience Design Intern

WorkivaAmes, IA
Paid Internship

a month ago

Description

Job Title

User Experience Design Intern

Job Location

United States (remote or office-based)

Job Overview

The User Experience Design Intern supports the Research and Development team to enhance the enterprise platform products. This person works closely with the User Experience team to enhance navigation flow, layout, and creation of individual design patterns.

Compensation

  • Salary range in the US: $28.00 - $28.00
  • 401(k) participation and match
  • Paid sick leave
  • A unique opportunity to further your learning experience through additional internship seasons

Responsibilities

  • Create concepts with wireframes, produce high-fidelity mockups or prototypes, write detailed documentation, and critically assess design.
  • Work across teams to ensure concepts meet business, brand, and project goals.
  • Enhance and improve upon existing UI patterns in current design system.
  • Experience the collaborative and creative processes as they exist in a software environment.
  • Assist the team with other user experience projects.

Requirements

Skills

  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Self-motivated with strong propensity for action, results and continuous improvement
  • The ability to work successfully in a high-energy, fast paced, rapidly changing environment is necessary
  • Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple processes, programs, and procedures simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines

Experience

  • Proficient with visual design tools like Adobe Creative Suite
  • Bonus points for having basic knowledge of front-end development technologies, such as HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript
  • Portfolio showing work is required

Education

  • Must be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program, preferably in User Experience, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Design, Interaction Design, or related program.

Travel Requirement

  • Minimal travel

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

  • Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office.

Sponsorship requirements:

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship now or in the future.

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People who completed this type of internship end up in the following types of jobs

Top majors

That get hired for this type of internship

  • Computer Science10%

  • Design And Applied Arts8%

  • Communication7%

  • Graphic Design6%

  • Marketing5%

  • 237 other majors61%

People who did this kind of internship end up at the following companies

  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Amazon
  • IBM
  • Edelman
Typical benefits offered for paid internships

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59.4%

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Relocation Assistance

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65.1%

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Housing Assistance

(avg. $2,892)

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43.8%

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Travel Stipend

(avg. $978)

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4.7%

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Tuition Reimbursement

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17.5%

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Medical Insurance

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25.7%

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401(k) Company Match

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49.7%

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Paid Holidays

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Estimated Monthly Living Expenses

For Ames, IA | $3,173/mo

  • Housing/Rent$1,327

  • Miscellaneous$878

  • Food$413

  • Transportation$286

  • Utilities$269

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