UI/UX Designer Intern

Location: Pullman, Washington, United States; part-time, on-site internship

Pay range: $22.50–$29.00 hourly

Company

Critical products provide the main interface for protecting, controlling, monitoring, and analyzing the electric power grid.

What you will do

• Design software products end to end with a strong user experience.
• Apply user experience, visual design, communication, and validation principles.
• Conduct and participate in user experience research and integrate validation results.
• Design intuitive workflows, accessible data visualizations, and information architectures for complex systems.
• Develop moderate expertise in at least one company-specific problem domain while working on multiple projects.
• Collaborate with UX designers, user researchers, product managers, software developers, and design leads.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a BA/BS degree in interaction, graphic or visual communications design, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• Basic experience with graphic design, interaction design, and display design principles.
• Basic experience with user experience design methodologies and techniques.
• Basic understanding of user experience research methods.
• Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills.
• Ability to learn new skills, assume new responsibilities, and learn sophisticated problem domains.
• Demonstrable experience designing, prototyping, and testing user interfaces for web, mobile, or desktop applications and/or hardware and embedded hardware displays.

Nice to have

• Experience with UX design in sophisticated problem domains.
• Experience with UX design in a business-to-business environment.
• Experience in an enterprise UX environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible part-time schedules can be arranged around classes and studying during the school year.
• Open collaboration, critique, and communication are part of the design environment.
• Interns contribute high-quality work and gain real-world experience.
• Interns are frequently hired for full-time roles after graduation, although this is not guaranteed.
• Additional intern benefits may include wellness resources, community connection, and retirement savings.