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Visual Design Intern

GrowSquares Inc.

Visual Design Intern

National
Part Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    WHO YOU ARE:

    You have a passion for building visual experiences. You love collaborating with teammates of various backgrounds/skill-sets. Your designs resonate with customers and inspire them to action. You have incredible attention to detail and understand how typography, color palettes, and interactions build brand affinity and recognition.

    You think as deeply about user experience and the narrative of a story as you do visual elements. You're interested in creating engaging and informative stories across multiple product channels and are not afraid to get involved in marketing and product development strategies. You have the drive to take charge in integrating and developing scalable design processes in a small but growing startup.

    You're interested in how to combine digital and physical experiences and know that not all touchpoints in an experience are contained within an app. Ideally, an interest in the outdoors and gardening is great, but it's okay if you're not a green thumb.

    WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

    GrowSquares is looking for a Visual Design Intern to translate our brand values into a unique visual identity that will live across our website, social channels, marketing materials, and more. This person will work closely with both our marketing and development teams to bring our brand values to life across all our digital channels.

    • Building UI Component libraries and Design Systems

    • Presenting to internal and external stakeholders product prototypes, design assets, research, and product hypothesis with qualitative and quantitative data

    • Participating in research workshops, user interviews, and UX / design workshops with a variety of internal stakeholders and outside parties

    • Refining existing product experiences and executing against multiple product roadmaps and priorities

    • Aiding in the prototyping and design of new products, data visualizations, and product experiences incl. establishing cross-channel branding color palette that meets accessibility standards

    • Own the empathy of the user in various product streams

    • Regularly interact across our entire team and across all functions of the business

    REQUIREMENTS: • Completed BA in Interaction, UX, Graphic, or Industrial Design (or other related fields), pursuing or recently completed an MA in ID, HCI, UX, or other related fields

    • At least two previous internship experiences in either UI/UX, product, or visual design, with an emphasis on mobile products with additional experience in web 

    • A strong understanding of design fundamentals (accessibility, information hierarchy, typography, design systems)

    • Experience with creating, maintaining, and updating branding style guides and component libraries

    • Extensive knowledge of design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Principle, Creative Cloud

    • An understanding of user research methods, preferably with experience in interviewing users 

    and solidifying core feature sets

    • Experience in collaborating with the development team from handing off design files to facilitating web/app launch

    • Refine existing product experiences and execute against multiple product roadmaps and priorities

    • Help inform product with UX insights, analytics, and engage in qualitative research methodologies

    • Regularly interact across our entire executive team and across all functions of the business

    • Understanding of consumer needs and business goals

    ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Clarifying platform intent within the customer journey

    • Experience w/ Instagram & marketing analytics/telemetry dashboards (Google Analytics, Google Ads, HubSpot, HotJar, etc,)

    • Creating engaging Ad experiences (primarily via Instagram & Facebook)

    • Understanding of social media branding (building a community & creating shareable content)

    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, familiar with tools like Slack and Airtable