Product Designer Intern
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly.
This is for a Summer 2022 Internship.
We're looking for an intern to join the Consumer Design team to tackle complex problems with elegant designs that’s both intuitive and accessible. This ranges across different features and customer types.
As an intern, you will receive one-on-one mentorship from a seasoned designer and will be part of a stellar user experience team, with the opportunity to learn from experienced product managers and researchers who bring a breadth of experience with them.
Your experience will be hands-on, with you designing features and participating in the entire product development process. Most importantly, you will be working with a thoughtful team who is dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences that centers around our customers.
What you’ll do:
- Help to define the user experience for Affirm products and features.
- Develop high quality storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interactions and design ideas.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with research, content, engineering, and product to create creative user experiences that is informed by qualitative and quantitative metrics
- Be an active participant in team critiques
What we look for:
- In process of obtaining an undergrad or graduate degree in Design, HCI, Information Science or related social science field
- Experience with industry design tooling (e.g. Figma)
- Portfolio showcasing experience design
- Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
- A willingness to learn
Location - Remote U.S.
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If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2020 DEI Report.
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