UX Intern

Summary

This Internship will be located in Mississauga, Canada. To be eligible, you must be in the area and able to commute to the office 2 days a week.Guidewire Software is seeking a Summer Intern to join the team. Guidewire serves a global community of more than 350 insurers of all sizes and lines of business in more than 30 countries. Community feedback enables us to stay at the forefront of what is happening all over the P&C world and to incorporate insights into the design of our platform to be truly customer-centric. At Guidewire, we pride ourselves on our inclusive and collaborative company culture. As part of our intern program, our experienced UX team will train and mentor you as you engage in meaningful work on our industry-leading software products.

Job Description

The Role:

As an Intern, you will work directly with members of the design team and partner with our cross-functional teams across engineering and product management. You will have the opportunity to learn our design process and uncover business requirements to design enterprise solutions. As part of the UX team, you will work on specific enterprise design challenges and participate in conversations with a diverse group of key business stakeholders as part of a productive, enjoyable, and collaborative environment. We would love for you to be familiar with design thinking, lean and agile approaches to creating software, and bring a commitment to continuously learn and improve.

To be considered you should be a student currently enrolled in a BS or MS program in Interaction design or HCI related field.

Desired Qualifications

• Passion for designing applications that balance user needs, business needs accounting for the various enterprise technological constraints.
• Demonstrated knowledge of design tools and research methods.
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

Core Responsibilities

As a UX/UI Designer, you will work with the team:

• To design simple and intuitive user experiences keeping the user personas in the middle of every design decision.
• On all aspects of design - IA, user journeys, wireframes, and mockups (based on previously established style guides).
• To partner on the user research activities - to conduct interviews, user journeys and gather user feedback through usability tests.
• To contribute, manage and continue to build out our home-grown design system.
• To continue to be more proficient in Figma, our go-to design tool.
• Contribute, manage and continue to build out our design systems.
• Organize and maintain design assets, ensuring they are easily accessible and up-to-date.

The ideal candidate will share our core values: COLLEGIALITY, INTEGRITY, and RATIONALITY.  

• Collegiality - We value strong teams. We work together as professional equals. We strive to continuously improve our processes and make realistic assumptions to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. We are trusted to manage our own time. We value ideas, not titles. We welcome and consider contrary opinions.  
• Integrity - We insist on honest relationships with customers, prospective customers, partners, investors, and each other in everything that we do.
• Rationality - We communicate through clear arguments. We decide carefully based on factual evidence. We like calm, systematic, thoughtful solutions. We believe in testing. We never assume that we're building software the "best" way, and continuously seek to improve our processes.  

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

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