UI/UX Design Summer Intern
The next generation of design at eBay is here. We are looking for a passionate and collaborative Sr. UX Designer to join the Buyer Experience design team in Portland. At eBay, you will be an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion, courage, and inventiveness - creating the future of global commerce and making an important, positive impact on millions of eBay sellers and shoppers around the world. If you are looking for a special place to take your design career to the next level, we want to talk with you.
As a Design Intern, you will work with designers to develop innovative and user-centered experiences while developing strong collaborative relationships with our product and engineering partners. As a team, we focus on the craft of execution and in the creation of innovative and intuitive solutions. You will be responsible for creating ideas, communications, and interfaces. You’ll make things — elegant, beautiful, smart things — that live across devices — that drive engagement and loyalty to eBay. You’ll need strong attention to detail, of course, as well as an eagerness to solve design problems at scale. And we’re looking for highly conceptual thinking in both visual and interaction design. We want you to blow us away with your work.
THINGS THAT WE VALUE
• Curious minds and an appetite for learning
• Passion for the craft
• A strong point of view paired with a healthy dose of humility
• Fearless brainstorming
• Ability to showcase ideas with the latest design/prototyping tools
• A user-centric and strategic approach
• Strong interest in and following the latest design trends, technology, and social
ABOUT YOU
You care about making great products and are willing to design and test to get to the best. You are learning skills to negotiate and evolve design with stakeholders in the project team, and ensure the integrity of the design is upheld. You should be knowledgeable about our competitors, understand established design patterns and best practices, but always feel the need to do better. You have the desire to design for different technologies, devices, and mindsets. You love a challenge and are ready to help reinvigorate one of the internet’s biggest and best brands.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Working towards a bachelors or masters degree in design, interactive design, and user experience
- Understanding of grids, type, color, layout, iconography, imagery, patterns, and systems
- Understanding of all modern design tools mixed with the latest prototyping techniques
- Experience driving design and user-experience for end-to-end projects
- An online portfolio that shows a broad range of interaction design project work from web-based applications, consumer experiences, and mobile devices
- Understanding of the user-centered design process