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About the position
UKG's Intern Academy program is dedicated to helping college students jump start their business careers at a top-ranked technology company that cares about its people. Our interns work on enriching projects that have a significant business impact on the future of our company. In addition to your day-to-day work with your team, interns get to experience our award-winning culture through mentorship, learning programs, team-building activities, networking events, and more. We have big ideas - and need big thinkers to help us realize them.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to enhance the user experience and ensure proper accessibility of UKG products
- Planning and conducting moderated and unmoderated usability tests
- Investigating and documenting user journeys throughout the products
- Translating strategy, business requirements and usability best practices into high-quality designs that support and reinforce UKG's product vision, brand, and business objectives
- Understanding standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluate the usability of products with assistive technologies
- Collaborating with engineers to identify, reproduce, prioritize, and document defects
- Creating UI component libraries to help designers consistently comply with UKG patterns in their mockups
- Documenting and expanding on the UKG Design Language System (DLS) so that it can be easily consumed across the organization and meet the latest and greatest product suite needs.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, UX design, HCI, visual arts, graphic design, cognitive psychology, or similar field. Work samples may be requested.
Nice-to-haves
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, polished interpersonal skills, strong self-motivation and maturity.
- Good organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Working knowledge of Sketch and/or Figma a plus
- Experience developing desktop, mobile and responsive web applications with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) or Accessibility best practices is a bonus
- Experience or familiarity with user research methods such as usability tests, surveys, and/or interviews
Benefits
- Wellness programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Customizable expense reimbursement program (U Choose) for over 200+ needs including student loan repayment, childcare, and pet insurance
