User Experience Intern
Have you ever wanted to intern inside the cloud?
Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.
We want an intern who is passionate about creating simple experiences in a complex world.
We are looking for a thoughtful, user-centered designer to contribute to UX team projects that will help us deliver high quality experiences for developers and data scientists. Reporting to the Manager of Product Design, and working closely with a UX Mentor, the UX intern will join a close-knit, collaborative, and light-hearted team, making sure our customers get the best possible experience from our products and services.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Learning about all types of UX work including strategy, service design, UI, research, implementation and more.
- Creating visual design artifacts to communicate complex concepts.
- Delivering interactive designs for team-driven projects.
- Collaborating with designers and researchers.
- Testing your designs with users. Iterating on your designs when they don't work.
- Participating in regular design reviews with the Product Design team.
- Prototyping interactions and experiences to communicate research findings and design intent.
- Building your designs into interactive experiences.
What We'll Expect From You:
- Interaction design skills, an ability to design flows and microinteractions for complex services
- Visual design skills, an ability to communicate complex ideas simply and beautifully.
- An ability to use prototyping tools to create designs (we use Figma, but previous experience with Figma is not required).
- An interest and commitment to learning cloud computing concepts.
- You are curious, and love to learn new things.
- Bonus: Development skills, an ability to bring your designs to life through code.
- Bonus: Background with relevant technology and/or Developer culture.
Why You’ll Like Being An Intern At DigitalOcean:
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to be an intern here, and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We will offer intern meetups and outings throughout the program to connect you with your fellow interns and the DO community.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This role is a summer 2020 internship located in our NYC office.
Department: User Experience
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