User-Experience Design Intern (Jun 2023)

About Macmillan

Macmillan Learning is changing student lives through learning, which is a great and inspiring responsibility. By linking research to learning practice, Macmillan develops engaging content and pioneering products for students that are empathetic, highly effective, and help students learn better. Regarding the classroom, Macmillan knows there isn’t one single path to reaching the summit of teaching and learning success.

Your role

• Demonstrate a passion for designing the best possible user experience through understanding customer problems and working to communicate those problems along with the opportunities they present;
• Work to align with our product management partners to understand use cases, define workflows and storyboards, and convert them into concrete screen flows, wireframes, and other visual design deliverables in order to quickly arrive at a design iteration;
• Actively own and contribute to product brainstorming, user research, interaction design, and visual design sessions;

Training and Development

Macmillan Talent and Development team is dedicated to delivering effective, efficient, and sustainable initiatives that address Macmillan’s talent needs and have the maximum impact in driving employee engagement, development, and performance. Macmillan Learning is dedicated to combining world-class content with technology to drive student success in their field.

Compensation & benefits

The salary for this role is $15 per hour. Macmillan offers a comprehensive benefits package to all employees. This includes:

• Flexible working 
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Work/Life Assistance Programs 
• Onsite wellness offerings 
• Dependent care flexible spending account 

Career progression

Macmillan offers several initiatives that’ll help both graduates and interns grow career-wise. Macmillan claims to offer seasonal Mentorship Programs where talents are paired up with respectable faces in their professional line.

Work-life balance

Macmillan offers the following as a means of work/life balance for their employees.

• Work/Life Assistance Program
• Educational assistance program 
• Onsite wellness offerings
• Flexible Office Policies including Hybrid options and a Remote Work Pilot
• Summer Fridays

Company culture

At Macmillan, values are not just learned, they’re lived. These values inspire all those at Macmillan as Macmillan seeks to publish some of the best books of this time. Macmillan works collectively to enhance the company's culture while reaching — and then surpassing — the company's business and profitability goals in a manner consistent with these values.

About you

• You must be enrolled in a degree program (i.e. Bachelor’s, Master’s, etc) 
• Mcmillan accepts applicants graduating with their degree in Spring 2022. 
• Experience with design software such as Adobe XD, Figma, Illustrator, or other similar graphic and wireframe tools (there are many, but what we’re looking for is the ability to communicate concepts visually using digital — often web-based — tools);

How to apply

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Sources

• macmillan.com
• youtube.com