Job Summary: The UX Design Intern will work with the Product Design team on new and existing product features across our web and native platforms. The successful applicant will have demonstrative ability of working with existing design systems as well as executing clever design solutions from scratch. They will spend their day working with other designers, product managers, and developers to deliver prototypes and concepts for implementation. In summary, you will play a key role in understanding and shaping the experiences that our players enjoy by solving for problems that we don't yet recognize.
Job Location: Louisville, KY (in office)
Essential Functions:
- Work with and learn from other designers to build elegant UIs and UX journeys across the TwinSpires platforms
- Ability to communicate design concepts through user experience design deliverables, including wireframes, flowcharts, information architecture, style guides and prototypes
- Conduct user testing
- Manage multiple, simultaneous projects
- Have an understanding, passion, or interest for online wagering
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Education and Experience:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design, HCI, or a related design field; or equivalent experience required.
- Excellent portfolio demonstrating skills in UX/UI design or related fields.
- Experience working in teams with many moving parts.
- Passion to understand customer desires and challenges, exploring hypotheses, and approaching them with various design solutions.
- Deliver improvements and approaches to capture key takeaways and insights.
- Proficient in design and prototyping tools - Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Figma or similar.
- Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
- Desire to work with a fun, tight-knit team.
- Love for all things design!
- Ability to participate in a full-time, 8-12 week paid internship Summer 2023
Licenses/Certificates: Ability to be licensed as an Employee by various racing and gaming jurisdictions in which we operate, as required.
Physical Demands: The following physical and mental demands are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, sometimes for prolonged periods, while working at a desk, on the phone, and the computer; type on a computer keyboard; use hands to finger, handle or feel; talk or hear; reach with hands or arms; walk or stand; and perform some repetitive motion activities.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, color differentiation, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- This position requires working effectively as part of a team and concentrating on various details when faced with interruptions and changing work priorities.
- The mental demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions, as described above, including but not limited to: demonstrated ability to anticipate and solve practical problems or resolve issues; reason, calculate figures and amounts; collect, interpret, and analyze complex data and information, and draw valid conclusions; interpret procedures and policies; and meet schedules in a dynamic and sometimes demanding work environment.
- The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate. The work environment characteristics represent those employees encounter while performing this job's essential functions in a typical office environment.
- An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
