Product Designer Intern

Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon’s open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.

• Help Beacon build most loved software products for financial institutions.
• Combine your artistic skills with functional product understanding to build prototypes.
• Design user experience.
• Conduct user testing.

• Love talking to customers and engineers about user experience.
• Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative UX research methods.
• Knowledge of rapid prototyping tools such as Figma.
• Portfolio examples or case studies that demonstrate UX deliverables for Product Design (e.g., wireframes, mock-ups, user flows, prototypes) with the ability to clearly articulate their design thinking and rationale, as well as the user & business problems they were solving for.
• An avid learner who can handle technical subjects.
• Excellent communication skills.

Salary Range: $18 - $25 an hour. 

Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

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