User Interface Design

**Welcome to SkillLab**

At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has a pathway to employment. We enable and lead a radical change - a focus on skill-based approach to employment services. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient labor markets by empowering people to turn their skills into careers. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 25+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.

**Your opportunity**
- You will experience the culture of a technology start-up with a social mission and collaborate with team members from +28 countries.
- You will gain hands-on experience in User Interface (UI) work in a product development environment.
- You will collaborate closely with our Senior Designers in order to improve your UI design skills and understand UX techniques and the Design Thinking mindset.
- You will interact with the whole product team, like UXR, development and product management and you will understand how we evaluate designs and implement our design work based on the product roadmap prioritisation.

**Your team**

You will work closely with and report to Giulia who is one of our Senior Product designers, bringing with her extensive UI experience and knowledge in both Amsterdam and Italy. You will join the User Experience (UX) team and will also cooperate with Dan, as the UX team lead. The UX team includes other awesome and experienced professionals, namely Giulia and Mirette.

We are proud of the people we work with and excited to work in a company with a social mission. We hope you will be too

**Your impact**
- You will gain real-world understanding of how UI can support product work from a multidisciplinary design team to the larger product development lifecycle.
- You will be the UI owner of a key piece of our product offering and improve its design.
- Your will be involved in user testing and iterate your design work based on the feedback gathered.
- You will help us structure a design system and identify the basic system components.

**Your skills**
- You have a background in Graphic design, UI design and/ or UX design.
- You are familiar with Figma, User flows and Wireframing.
- You have a demonstrated interest in User Interface design, Visual design, Prototyping, Usability testing, User experience and/ or User-centered design.
- You would like to focus mostly on UI and get some exposure to UX and research by following a user-centric approach.

**Extra awesome**
- You have experience working in a product development environment.
- You have experience with a user-centered approach and techniques.
- You have worked with advanced Figma functionality (prototyping, buliding component libraries, maintaining design systems).

**Requirements**:

- You are currently enrolled as a student or graduated within the last 12 months.
- You are able to commit to a six-month full-time (40 hour/week) internship.

**Compensation, start-date & location**
- This is a paid internship. If you live in Amsterdam or relocate to Amsterdam during your internship, then the monthly reimbursement is will be 1.000 EUR.
- You can do the internship by living in another city in the Netherlands and commuting to the office 1-2 days per week. If you do the internship remotely, then the monthly reimbursement will be 700 EUR. SkillLab covers your train commuting expenses to Amsterdam.

**Benefits**
- You will have a personal learning budget to invest in your professional development.
- You will have access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
- You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Yourcampus app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
- You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, Germany etc.

**Our selection procedure**
- We will invite you for a short screening call.
- We will invite you for a 60min interview if we find that you are a good fit. The interview will involve you preparing a short assignment.

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