Intern
Dow Jones
NYC, NY, USA
Summer 2019 Product Design Internship
The Barron’s Group is looking for a Product Design Intern to join our UX & Digital Design team.
Who We Are
Barron’s Group is a dynamic portfolio of consumer facing brands in financial advice, news, luxury real estate, and lifestyle. The portfolio is comprised of Barron’s, Barron’s Penta, MarketWatch, FN London and Mansion Global.
As our intern, you will serve as a voice and advocate of target users, empathizing with and thoroughly understanding goals, desires and preferences. You’ll use this knowledge to inform concepts and innovative solutions across products and projects. You will collaborate with and work alongside product managers, engineers, journalists, and business stakeholders. Ultimately, you will be helping shape the future of how we deliver analysis and content to our customers. This is a paid internship lasting 10 weeks.
Responsibilities and what you’ll do
Work with the in-house Product Design team to define interactive experiences within Barron’s Group
Focus on and take ownership of a project or initiative that spans the course of the internship
Work closely with product managers, engineers, editors and other stakeholders to implement and deliver final products
Develop and help implement the design language system, ensuring a consistent and coherent user experience and aesthetic voice with a high level of quality and polish
Take part in design communication across a multidisciplinary team throughout each phase of a project
Stay informed with design trends and techniques, and recommend new tools and technology when applicable
Apply available research (and conduct if needed), including analytics data, qualitative studies, A/B tests, and competitive analysis to inform and iterate design
Create: design mockups, design presentations, native design files (i.e. in Sketch, Adobe CC, etc.) clickable prototypes and style guides
Requirements
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Passion for identifying and solving user problems
Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly-dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders
Familiar with digital product design best practices and procedures
Expert in user experience design, information hierarchy, user flows, and typography
Be a student studying Graphic Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design or related field
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets .
Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, please reach out to us at TalentResourceTeam@dowjones.com . Please put “Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line.
Business Area: TECHNOLOGY - ENTERPRISE
Job Category: About Us
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 125 years and today has one of the world’s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
Req ID: 15191
Feb 13, 2019