Summer 2017 Intern, Design, Ignite - Full-time / Part-time

Description:

The Salesforce Ignite team is looking for a stellar design intern! Ignite is a customer-facing innovation team within Salesforce.com. We provide a unique set of creative services to our top customers, blending research, strategy, and design to help them drive innovation across every facet of user experience. Ignite does not work from traditional design or creative briefs. We engage with top leaders of the world's biggest brands to help understand their most acute business challenges and collaborate with them to re-shape their future.

We are looking for an ambitious, self-motivated UX designer to join our San Francisco Ignite team. The ideal candidate is a maker at heart and understands how to collaborate with a cross disciplinary team of researchers, designers and strategists to bring compelling stories and solutions to life. As a designer on our team, you will be asked to challenge yourself to envision the future and then help make it so.

Do you get geeked about...

* Developing deep empathy, understanding and insight into user behavior, motivations and business value

* Building and designing in multiple tools and media - digital, physical, motion, foam core, hardware hacking, photography...

* Collaborating with teams to build user-centered scenarios that translate stories into compelling solutions

* Exploring concepts and rapidly creating sketches, wireframes, mockups and/or prototypes that help make future experiences tangible

* Advocating for a simple, modern design and developing the principles that can help guide this vision to reality

* Working on fast-paced projects, collaborating with a cross disciplinary team and having fun while doing it

Then we want to hear from you!

Experience

* On your way to a graduate degree or arising senior in an accredited interaction design focused program

* Experience leading interaction design activities, e.g. information architecture, task flows, wireframes and understanding of latest UX patterns

* Strong visual design background, e.g. color, composition, typography is a plus

* Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision, Flinto, Marvel, etc.

* Experience conducting or participating in user-centered research that generates actionable insights that can inform thoughtful design concepts

* A portfolio that shows how you tell stories, think through a business challenge and tangibly solve problems

Preferred requirements:

* Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and modern JS libraries/frameworks a plus

* Strong understanding and demonstration of user-centered methods and best practices

* Self-motivated, a good communicator, and able to balance quality deliverables with tight deadlines

* Ability to communicate your ideas to a wide variety of key stakeholders

* The confidence to know what you don't know and ask for help when needed

NOTE: We will ask for a link to your website or online portfolio during the interview process. Please be sure to update these before sharing with us. Thank you.

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