User Experience - Design Intern

Job Title
User Experience - Design Intern
Job Description
About Your Role:
The Dotdash Meredith Design Group is looking for a bright and creative User Experience Intern for Summer 2023. As a User Experience Intern on Dotdash's Publishing Platforms team, you will work with UX researchers, product managers, designers and engineers to help shape the internal tools our writers and editors use to craft content and assist on other UXR projects across other teams . This content helps millions of monthly readers answer questions, solve problems, and find inspiration on topics they deeply care about. You will be collaborating with the Greenhouse design team and other UXR teams on a variety of challenging and exciting projects, including our Design System.
The Dotdash Meredith Virtual Summer Intern Program is from June 12 through August 11, 40 hours a week with a competitive compensation rate. The intern program consists of hands-on learning, opportunities to create work that has an impact on the business, along with workshops in preparing you for post-college life (resume / interviewing) plus, some fun events throughout the summer!
About Your Contributions:

• Collaborate with our Director of UX Research to run user analysis and usability testing efforts and help translate research findings, and business requirements into executable solutions
• Participate in on-site, remote, and in-field user research studies, including user interviews, gathering data, recruiting users and analyzing data collection in a qualitative and quantitative manner
• Share tangible findings and prioritized recommendations ensuring outcomes align to both user and business goals
• Create user personas, user scenarios and task flows to focus on the behavior and motivations of our users
• Help maintain and evolve the Greenhouse Design System by ensuring consistency and efficiency across all our products
• Collaborate with cross functional teams across product, engineering, and design to define product design system solutions for our tools
• Create components with detailed documentation for the design system, including guidelines, templates, and assets

About You:

• Has base knowledge / background of UX research
• Understands the strengths and weaknesses of various UX research methods and knows when to use them
• Strong problem-solving skills with focus on identifying, defining and solutioning for real user needs
• Accepts feedback gracefully and is skillful in open collaboration with diverse groups
• Proficient in Figma
• Experience with Design Systems
• Understanding of contemporary trends in web/app design are a plus

Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith's over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.
Dotdash Meredith embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Pay Range
Hourly: $20.00 - $20.00
The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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