Creative Labs Digital Product Design Intern (Strategy and Innovation)

Creative Labs Digital Product Design Intern (Strategy and Innovation)

Work Location:

Remote - USA

Job Type:

Full time

To advance the purpose of InterVarsity, this person designs digital experiences for all who encounter InterVarsity’s digital presence. This ranges from custom products and content to purchased platforms. Successful candidates know design thought, product design, and user research. They model collaborative working patterns with excellent communication. They continuously remind product and project teams of the importance of creating great audience outcomes.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Personal:         

• Maturing disciple of Jesus Christ: growing in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture, and God's purposes in the world
• Be a lifelong learner who prizes the discipleship of the mind and stays current on design thought, product design, and user research.

Digital Product Design Methods & Activities

• Project Analysis & Discovery: Discover requirements through stakeholder interviews, user research, and other problem-space techniques.
• Data: Analyze data, present data to stakeholders, handle data with sensitivity, and make decisions based on user-generated data and digital analytics.
• User Research: Conduct generative and evaluative user research utilizing various user research techniques and present insights to stakeholders.
• User Flows, Wireframing, and Prototyping: Work towards a solution, creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to test digital experiences with the target audience.
• Content and Visual Design: Collaborate with the Editorial and Design teams as needed. Provide copy guidance and write copy. Work within and contribute to InterVarsity’s Digital Design System and our established brand.
• Software Development: Collaborate with software developers and maintain knowledge of content management systems, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Provide functional specifications and make sure they are understood and developed as designed. Stay current on emerging technology and consider its use within the ministry.
• Client and team engagement: Collaborate with others to find a way forward among organizational goals, stakeholder desires, user needs, and resourcing capabilities.

Organizational Collaboration & Design Mindset

• Partner with and respond positively to the coaching of your supervisor and national leaders.
• Exercise creativity and self-motivation to contribute to a culture of professionalism and exceptional production.
• Adopt a user-focused mindset: working with a focus on the audience and openness to audience feedback.
• Adopting a designer’s mindset: becoming more humble, adaptable, embracing productive conflict, and continuously learning.
• Contribute to collaborative and productive team meetings and relationships.
• Strong written and presentation skills for sharing thought processes and explaining decision points.
• Be proactive in bringing the right people …