User Experience (UX) Intern
Location: Redwood City, CA, USA
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Job Number: 27461
Position Title: Intern
External Description:
User Experience (UX) Intern
Our Team
The Informatica User Experience (UX) team propels the design and usability of a broad spectrum of data-integration and data-management products. We are a globally diverse, world-class group of designers and researchers responsible for shaping user experiences and innovation initiatives company-wide. We are creative, collaborative, and fun to work with, and believe in recruiting the best. We care deeply about work-life balance and growing careers.
Your Opportunity
As an Intern at Informatica, you will be exposed to the innovative culture, challenging work and a fast-moving, results-oriented environment. Join our User Experience team to tackle real-world projects which impact the way people within organizations, from IT professionals to business users, interact with and use data. Solve big, complex problems, while collaborating in an exciting high-paced environment, with other highly professional designers and researchers.\
Informatica’s internships last 10-12 weeks during the summer months. We are currently hiring for summer 2020 and will be located in Redwood City, CA.
Your Responsibilities
The successful candidate, under the close mentorship of a senior practitioner, will be responsible for:
- Delivering UX designs while working closely with cross-functional teams to create innovative user experiences for new and extended data-management offerings.
- Participating in stakeholder interviews and design workshops
- Synthesizing results from user research into coherent designs
- Creating information architectures, task flows, user interaction models, wireframe screen flows, prototypes, detailed designs, design briefs, design specifications and guidelines with direction from senior staff.
- Ability to create interactive prototypes.
- Fostering a fun, creative, collaborative spirit
Your Qualifications
- 0+ years of experience designing user interfaces and user experiences for web-based products
- Graduating between December 2020 and June 2021 with a Master’s degree or PHD in a related discipline (UX, HCI, Industrial Design, Cognitive Psychology, Graphic Design, etc.)
- A portfolio that demonstrates your design talent including conceptual models, navigation and user flows, information design, and mock-ups
- Awareness of user-centered design product development
- Proven ability to generate end-to-end designs - from concept through production detailing
- Awareness of UX design guidelines and design specifications
- Proven effectiveness working in cross-functional teams, either in courses or on-the-job
- Demonstrated proficiency with wireframing and prototyping tools, such as Axure, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, Balsamiq, etc.
- Awareness of user-research methods, analytics, and other insights to guide product direction
- Demonstrated aptitude to learn quickly. An excitement to grow and a professional
- Demonstrated written and verbal skills
City: Redwood City
State: California
Seniority Level: Entry Level
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EEO Employer Verbiage:
At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.
Travel Requirement: Limited
Location_formattedLocationLong: Redwood City, California US