Entry Level UX Design Internship Job at Ideate Labs, Manhattan, NY

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  • Ideate Labs
  • Manhattan, NY

Job Description

About the Program:

Every year, Ideate Labs sponsors 2 UX interns to join our 4-Month Live UX cohort that takes place in the fall and spring seasons. Our UX interns join our cohort and work through the end-to-end UX design and UX research process for a startup idea of their choice that will help them attract hiring managers in that topic space or industry.

Interns take our program for free and receive 1:1 mentorship throughout the 4-month program, as well as 1:1 UX career coaching support for up to 3 months after the program ends. Alumni UX interns go on to make between $85,000 -$150,000 in UX design, product design, UX research, or service design roles after they complete the program.

Ideate Labs is committed to helping women, immigrants and POC break into tech and land 6-figure UX jobs. We help you land 6-figure UX jobs or coach you till you get it.

UX Internship Requirements:

This internship program is open to new grads and UX career changers alike! Here are some internship requirements to keep in mind before applying:

  • Interested in UX career paths in UX research, UX design, product design or service design
  • Willing to commit 5-10 hours of work per week to complete program deliverables
  • Willing to attend 2-3 hour weekend lectures to learn the end-to-end design process
  • Open to feedback from UX mentors and demonstrates a willingness to revise design work

UX Internship Program Learnings:

  • Build digital products and services 0-1
  • Lead end-to-end design process for a startup idea or topic of your choice
  • Lead product scoping and feature scoping, as well as entire project management
  • Identify target market for product and position product for launch success
  • Develop a business model for the product or service and demonstrate how the product/service will scale as the business model scales
  • Lead discovery research by managing user recruitment, creating research plans, writing interview guides, leading 8-16 discovery interviews, and synthesizing interview insights
  • Deliver a compelling UX design and business pitch for your startup idea, showcasing both qualitative and quantitative data to justify the problem space and the solution
  • Tell a compelling story about users by showcasing user types, personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service blueprints, ideation matrixes, sketches, wireframes, UX workflows, prototypes and other visual deliverables
  • Lead user testing of wireframes and prototypes to improve product/service usability and constantly iterate on your startup idea
  • Design a unqiue design system for your solution from scratch, creating components, a style guide, and branding for your solution
  • Analyze direct and indirect competitors to clearly articulate your solution’s differentiators and why your solution is innovative and more likely to succeed over competing options

How to Apply:

After applying online, you will receive UX tips and challenges via email to help you with your transition into UX and will be contacted by Ideate Labs if you are being considered for the apprentice program. Once contacted, you will go through a brief interview process before joining the cohort. We accept apprentices on a rolling basis so please apply to this only once.

Requirements

We especially consider folks with a curious, empathetic, learning mindset for this program.

Job Tags

Part time, Internship, Weekend work,

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