Arity - Experience Design Intern

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

9d • $22 - $31

About The Position

Arity is a part of the Allstate Corporation, which means we have the same innovative drive that keeps us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data in order to provide cutting-edge solutions to companies invested in transportation. The Experience Design Team Made up of design leads, experience designers, content designers, design researchers, UI engineers, and visual designers, our Experience Designer Team works collaboratively across departments to capture the emotions and needs of our end users – which are reflected in all the ways they experience Arity and our products. Using a lean and agile approach, our XD team works across areas focused on driving data visualization, driving behavior analysis, urban planning, and shared mobility. They meet each project with deep empathy in order to craft useful and usable interface design solutions. Together, we design experiences that have real impact on the personal transportation industry and its future. Are you ready for the challenge? The Role The Experience Designer Consultant Intern will support the framing of problems and provide help with innovative design solutions that meet user needs, while fulfilling key business objectives for a diverse range of products and experiences. They are ready to support other Design team members on concepts and early discovery work, as well as iterating on a mature product while embedded within a product team. On their product team, the Experience Designer Consultant Intern is communicating and collaborating with their Design pair, as well as with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Marketing. They will create and extend designs, prototypes and other design assets in order to facilitate the communication of the recommended solution.

Requirements

• Ability to work collaboratively and think flexibly, partnering with product, engineering, data science, marketing, and each other
• Passionate toward human-centered design. Ability to handle and enjoy projects from huge initiatives to simple requests
• Mindset to work with a variety of methodologies and processes and suggest improvements to them.
• Ability to work in an Agile product development environment
• Ability to effectively engage and effectively communicate ideas and contributions
• Keep up-to-date in user experience, interaction design and user research by monitoring trends, attending workshops and conferences, joining professional groups, and sharing our craft and successes.
• Familiarity with design tools, such as Figma and collaboration tools like MURAL

Responsibilities

• Use human-centered design approaches to frame problems, uncover patterns, discover opportunities, and visualize possibilities.
• Understand and interpret brand, user, and business needs to develop innovative, creative, and results-oriented solutions
• Support the creation of rapid iterations of designs that can be tested and validated quickly
• Help conduct quick feedback loops through frequent and appropriate user research, testing, and metrics analysis
• Help product team assess and prioritize opportunities, constraints, and features
• Articulate your ideas clearly and effectively using design and prototyping tools and similar methods
• Partner with experience design team specialists when appropriate for the product

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed