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About SimpleReach
SimpleReach is NYC-based start-up creating a new measurement layer for the social web to help the world's best publishers gain insight into the content that drives engagement, traffic, and conversions. We're a small team of engineers, business folks, and designers working hard to make beautiful software that people love. We work fast, wear a lot of hats, and learn new things on a daily basis. We have the cutest Chief Happiness Officer on the planet, the oldest couch in the continental United States, and a collaborative and open work environment.
Responsibilities and Tasks
We're looking for a design intern with a serious love of information visualization, user experience, and visual design. You'll be treated as part of the team and not tasked to run errands and pick up coffee, working on a variety of projects along with our Chief Design Officer . Some of the things you'll be working:
- creating a design language and style guide for company assets such as presentations and reports
- designing information visualizations for our blog, educational materials, and internal team
- coming up with new ideas for our marketing site and landing pages
- improving our product onboarding
- designing company schwag (t-shirts, stickers, buttons, etc)
What You Will Learn
- what life is like at a start-up
- how to work fast, break things, have fun, improve
- how to wear many hats
- how to work with engineers, data scientists, and business folks
- how the sausage is made - we are technology focused startup and use tools like Github for the majority of our communication - while you may not be submitting code, you'll learn the ins & outs of how to work with and talk about fast-moving software projects
What We Are Looking For
- a rising junior or senior with strong foundational design knowledge in visual and information design. Interaction & user experience design a plus (or just a desire to learn more about these fields of design)
- solid writing and presentation skills - working at a start-up means selling your ideas and getting team buy-in. You must be able to communicate!
- rabid curiosity
- a self-starter with the ability to work in an unstructured environment
- an strong interest in startups, software, and the web
- awesome but totally not necessary or required: HTML/CSS/Javascript knowledge
Terms
- summer internship
- 20 to 40 hours a week (can be determined by the candidate)
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