UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

The ACLU seeks an Undergraduate or Graduate Intern, or applicant with equivalent experience, in the Product & Technology Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY. 

The Team:

The ACLU’s Product & Technology team partners with departments across the ACLU in order to build and maintain innovative, robust and secure digital products and technical systems that accelerate the ACLU’s mission as our nationwide guardian of rights and liberties. We are a team of engineers, designers, product managers and administrators who take pride in creating technical solutions that help raise money, get our message out in the world, mobilize our supporters, and manage our data with integrity. 

What You’ll Do:

This product design internship will be an opportunity to contribute to the web and mobile experiences that drive audience engagement, action, and giving. They'll work with a cross-functional group of product managers, engineers, and designers to research, design, prototype, and deliver compelling digital experiences that help the broader public understand the work the ACLU is doing and understand how they can support it. 

Your Day to Day

• Research and synthesis of feedback from our constituents and stakeholders to make minor and major improvements on our products
• Wireframes, mid to high fidelity visual and interaction designs, and prototypes for web and mobile aclu.org experiences
• Creating and sharing presentations highlighting the on-going work to our product and technology team and stakeholders across the organization
• Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned
• Center principles of equity, inclusion, and belonging in all work, embedding the values in program development, policy application, and organizational practices and processes 
• Demonstrate a commitment to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and/or conflicts 

What You’ll Bring:

This internship is primarily geared for new designers, current students, and folks transitioning into design from an adjacent discipline. Interns should possess the following:

• Ability to create low and high-fidelity designs and user flows in Figma
• Excellent collaboration and presentation skills
• Familiarity with designing user-centered experiences for the web
• Fluency with Figma, Sketch, or other design tools 
• Familiarity with brand guidelines / design systems 

Future ACLU-ers Will:

• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict

Internship Logistics:

• Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of remote or hybrid intern positions. This internship can be remote or hybrid from our NY National office.
• Time Commitment: Summer internships require a full-time commitment of 35 hours per week.
• Internship Duration: Full-time internships span 10 consecutive weeks beginning May 28 or June 10, 2024.
• Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work and do not receive compensation from other sources. Students with external funding may receive a partial stipend to bring their total funding up to the level of the ACLU’s stipend amount for that term. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit. Below are the stipend rates:
  • $20/hour forundergraduate students or equivalent experience 
  • $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience

Priority Application Deadline: March 4, 2024

Why the ACLU:

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The ACLU makes every effort to assure that its recruitment and employment provide all qualified persons, including persons with disabilities, with full opportunities for employment in all positions.

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

The Department of Education has determined that employment in this position at the ACLU does not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.