About the program:

Every year, we sponsor 2 UX interns from anywhere in the world to join us for 7 months, either in the fall, spring or online seasons. Our UX interns work through an end-to-end UX design and UX research process for a startup idea of ​​their choice that will help them attract hiring managers in that topic or industry.

Trainees take our program for free and receive 1:1 mentoring during the 7-month program. Graduate UX interns go on to pursue between $85,000-$130,000 in UX design, product design, UX research, or service design roles after completing the program.

We are committed to helping women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ people break into 6-figure tech and land UX jobs. We help you land 6-figure UX jobs or coach you until you get them.

Vocational training requirements:

This apprenticeship program is open to recent graduates and staff professionals alike! Here are some apprenticeship requirements to keep in mind before applying:

• Interested in creative career paths in UX research, UX design, product design, or service design
• Willing to commit 5 to 10 hours of work per week to complete software delivery
• Willing to attend 2-3 hour weekend lectures to learn the end-to-end design process or willing to complete online video course modules
• Open to feedback from UX mentors and demonstrates willingness to review design work

Learn about the vocational training program:

• Building digital products and services 0-1
• The end-to-end design process for your startup idea or theme of choice
• The main range of products and scope, as well as the entire project management
• Determine the target market for the product and product for a successful launch
• Develop a business model for the product or service and show how to scale the product/service with business model metrics
• Driving discovery research by managing user recruitment, creating research plans, writing interview guides, discovery interviews 8-16, and synthesizing interview insights.
• Deliver a UX design and business pitch for your startup idea, showcasing both qualitative and quantitative data to justify the problem space and solution
• Tell a compelling story about your users by visualizing user types, personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service diagrams, ideation matrices, sketches, wireframes, UX workflows, prototyping and other visual renditions
• Lead user testing of wiretapping and prototyping to improve product/service usability and constantly iterate on your startup idea
• Design a unique design system for your solution from scratch, creating components, a style guide, and branding for your solution
• Analyze direct and indirect competitors to clearly articulate your solution’s differentiators and why your solution is innovative and more likely to succeed over competing options
• Consult startups to create scope of work and fulfill UX research, UX design, product design and service design based on your scope of work.

How to apply:

Please fill out our application form to apply for a UX woman position Sponsor your participation in the program. The application takes 5 minutes to complete and will ask you to submit your LinkedIn profile and resume, as well as ask you why you are interested in this program. You don’t need to have a UX resume or portfolio to apply– We consider people who are at the beginning of their career change, who are still exploring multiple career options.

You will receive UX tips and challenges via email to help you with your transition into UX and will be contacted by us if you are considered for the intern program. Once contacted, you will go through a brief interview process before joining the regiment. Due to the high volume of applicants, we cannot contact all applicants about their application status. If you do not hear from us about an interview within two months of applying, please consider your application closed. We consider applicants on a rolling basis.