Visual Design Intern - Spring 2016

Visual Design Intern - Spring 2016 - UX Team

 

New York, NY

 

Job Description

 

MaxPoint is seeking a passionate Visual Design Intern to join our multidisciplinary UX team in the New York office. The ideal candidate has experience combining typography, iconography, color, and texture to craft visually appealing designs that help our users successfully navigate MaxPoint’s product suite.

 

Are you eager to explore a career in Visual Design? Do you regularly obsess over the design details and aesthetics of the apps, products, and brands that you experience day to day? Are you interested in joining an energetic multidisciplinary team? Our UX Researchers, Interaction Designers, and Visual Designers inspire each other on a daily basis by sharing ideas, articles, interaction examples, and product designs. We are driven by our collective passion for innovation within the UX realm. We want another individual with a creative spark to fuel our enthusiasm.

 

 

Responsibilities

• Work closely with our UX team to visually conceptualize, refine, and implement consistent patterns across multiple products.
• Explore typographic hierarchy, iconography, imagery, color, and texture to solve problems in elegant and beautiful ways.
• Actively participate in team brainstorming and solution generation by collaborating with other Visual Designers, Interaction Designers, and UX Researchers.
• Present and communicate ideas to fellow UX teammates, Product Managers, and Engineers
• Assist with solutions from ideation to completion while utilizing visual design skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to work 16 to 30 hours per week during Spring 2016 semester; we can be flexible depending on your schedule
• Online portfolio or work examples of your visual design thought process.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite or Sketch.
• Interest in responsive design, touch, and mobile interfaces.
• Basic understanding of personas, user interviews, usability testing, prototyping and interaction design.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback in order to refine designs and improve skillsets.
• Superior communication and presentation skills.
• Team player with an ability to work as a contributing member of a multi-disciplinary team. 

http://www.maxpoint.com/