UX/UI Design Intern

Interos is the operational resilience company — reinventing how companies manage their supply chains and business relationships — through our breakthrough SaaS platform that uses artificial intelligence to model and transform the ecosystems of complex businesses into a living global map down to any single supplier, anywhere. The Interos Operational Resilience Cloud helps organizations reduce risk, avoid disruptions, and achieve superior enterprise adaptability. Based in Washington, DC, the fast-growing private company is led by CEO Jennifer Bisceglie and supported by investors Kleiner Perkins, NightDragon, and Venrock.

We are searching for an extraordinary team member who thrives as part of a fast-paced team and takes pride in their ability to succeed while delivering value to our customers. Help drive innovation and grow professionally by tackling solving one of the most critical business challenges of our time – building safe, secure and resilient supply chains to power growth and prosperity for all. Whether you are an innovator, explorer, problem-solver or beyond, we are looking for changemakers – people who see promise where others see obstacles.

Dates of Internship: June 26, 2023-August 4, 2023

Compensation: $25/hour

The Opportunity:

As a UX/UI Design Intern, and a member of our Interos User Experience team, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in our collaborative design process and contribute to the conception, evolution and realization of Interos’ Supply Chain solutions.

For us, creative collaboration and functional agility are the keys to our success; for you, this is an invitation and an opportunity to push your creative, problem-solving and people skills further than ever. You will be an integral part of a growing team of creative professionals who are passionate about solving problem for our users / customers / stakeholders and will lead through example.

You will work closely with product managers, development leads, data scientists, user researchers and fellow UX professionals to realize solutions that are not only useful and relevant, but also delightful, consistent and valuable to our customers.

You will immerse yourself in the totality of the problem and solution space – including, understanding the problems and needs of the end-users; actively collaborating with other stakeholders to explore the possibilities and the constraints thoroughly; generating breakthrough design concepts and crafting them into buildable solutions; and actively participating to ensure the fit and finish of the implemented design. Our design process is inherently cyclical and iterative – this means you, as a key member of the user experience team, you will need to continually learn, understand, ideate, create, and validate your solutions – constantly pushing the product towards greater excellence.

You are being invited to be a part of a global team! - and that means you will be expected to possess a global mindset, entrenching yourself within a Global UX organization with teams across geographies, while fluidly working with culturally diverse teams and across multiple times zones.

Why is Interos a great place for design?

• The Interos Executive Leadership Team recognizes the importance of User Experience as a strategic differentiator, especially in a world where agility, quality and innovation define business success
• Our Executive strategy supports the creation of cutting-edge User Experiences and emerging experiential domains – such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Insights and Conversational User Interfaces to drive an informative, actionable and valuable user experience
• You will collaborate with a highly talented, fun and supportive team of design, development and product colleagues across the country
• Our software helps some of the largest and well-known companies and their employees be successful... and that stature will continue to drive us each and every day
• We constantly dedicate time to innovation projects – the kind of projects that begin with ‘what if’ and ‘why not’
• We are a highly successful, fast-growing company with a "no jerks" policy that really works
• We are always striving to improve - whatever level your level, we will challenge and help you grow as a designer

What you can expert as an Interos UX/UI Design Intern:

• You will receive hands-on mentoring in core design skills, including crafting a vision, developing concepts, using research to validate, and developing that vision through to fruition with development staff
• You will actively participate in the end-to-end user experience practice, using industry-standard best practices and design tools including the Adobe Suite of Tools
• You will collaborate with your peers and Interos leadership to develop and implement design strategies and programs for the organization
• You are a team member, a team player, and a team supporter who recognizes that it takes many hands to create design excellence and sustain it
• You are an innovator, driving design for the next generation, reusable navigation strategies that help bring together the multiple services and solutions from the Interos application
• You are a solution finder, constantly seeking solutions to product, technical, and any challenge that hits your radar
• You are a champion of the customer and the customer experience
• Work with product managers to understand the business requirements and help sculpt the product vision
• Generate models that form the theoretical foundation for great solutions: workflow diagrams, flowcharts, storyboards, personas and more
• Work with UX design colleagues in other areas to generate more creative ideas, and to ensure consistency
• Quickly explore multiple design directions to envision the best possible solution, including working closely with design and product leadership

What you bring:

• You are a passionate problem solver with experience (and curiosity) in designing user interfaces and working with others to deliver that vision
• You are comfortable with the challenge of engaging with others on a daily basis across location-diverse organizations
• You are a clear thinker, able to grasp abstractions, and an effective communicator who is able to present your ideas clearly and succinctly
• You are organized, and at the same time, you have the ability to stand outside preconceptions and examine things afresh and anew
• You have an expected graduation date in December 2023 or May 2024

Nice to have:

• Hands-on visual design skills across desktop, mobile and responsive design experiences, including experience with building and using a rich and diverse design system
• Experience designing for cloud application software in an enterprise environment, where there are multiple levels/types of end-users
• An understanding of consumer-grade experiences within the enterprise and B2B space

Interos is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other classification protected by law.

If you are a candidate in need of assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact HR@interos.ai

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