Our Mission at LearnVest:

LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future.

Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands.

Description: 

The role of a visual designer intern is to help improve and bring to life new digital products and tools. Design craftsmanship, typography, and systematic design are the responsibilities and expertise of our visual design team. We will work with interns to help them develop and hone their design craftsmanship. Interns will have the opportunity to work with a development team, build prototypes and learning about best practices for interactive design.

Responsibilities: 

• Work with senior designers to think through product features and designs.
• Use an iterative design process to design, prototype, and validate design ideas.
• Participate in creating new visual languages, sprint planning, and QA as needed.
• Contribute to the larger design team through by sharing Design inspirations and nerding out over the latest interaction trends.
• Collaborate with other interns on an internal project.

Qualifications:

• Currently in the junior or senior year of undergrad, or a graduate student.
• Studying a Design related field such as interaction design,Visual communications, graphic design
• Basic knowledge of the fundamentals—visual design, typography, brand development, and how products are put together.
• An extreme passion for visual design, and a strong communicator of the user’s perspective throughout the design process. An interest and passion for the latest technology
• Working knowledge of design tools, such as Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Invision and anything else needed to get the job done.
• A strong online portfolio available for viewing.

Things that we value:

• Curious minds and an appetite for learning
• Passion for the craft
• A strong point of view with a healthy dose of humility
• A collaborative mindset, a great sense of humor
• A sensitivity to the basics of visual design.
• Finesse to know when to be evolutionary and when is the right time for a revolution
• A personality that thrives in a agile/nimble environments
• Willingness to take risks and fail (and fail again. And again)
• A belief in our vision