The business problem is to help women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ folks break into tech and land 6-figure UX jobs by providing them with a free, 7-month remote UX apprenticeship program. This program aims to equip participants with the skills and experience needed to succeed in UX design, product design, UX research, or service design roles.
Requirements
- Interested in creative career paths in UX research, UX design, product design or service design
- Open to feedback from UX mentors and demonstrates a willingness to revise design work
Responsibilities
- Build digital products and services 0-1
- Lead end-to-end design process for a startup idea or topic of your choice
- Lead product scoping and feature scoping, as well as entire project management
- Lead discovery research by managing user recruitment, creating research plans, writing interview guides, leading 8-16 discovery interviews, and synthesizing interview insights
- Deliver a compelling UX design and business pitch for your startup idea, showcasing both qualitative and quantitative data to justify the problem space and the solution
- Tell a compelling story about users by showcasing user types, personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service blueprints, ideation matrixes, sketches, wireframes, UX workflows, prototypes and other visual deliverables
- Lead user testing of wireframes and prototypes to improve product/service usability and constantly iterate on your startup idea
Other
- Willing to commit 5-10 hours of work per week to complete program deliverables
- Willing to attend 2-3 hour weekend lectures to learn the end-to-end design process OR willing to complete online video course modules
- You do NOT need to have a UX resume or portfolio to apply
- We consider folks who are at the very beginning of their career change, who are still exploring multiple career options.
