What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX Intern position at NRG Energy?
Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we're driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.
Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.
Summer Internship Program
Our 10-week program is designed to increase future employment potential for prospects while providing a valuable resource to the business. This Summer Internship will appeal to proactive and self-motivated college juniors/seniors with a genuine desire to learn about the energy business and industry. During the internship, candidates will work on real projects and have real responsibilities. NRG and Vivint aims to help candidates build strengths, gain skills that can be transferred to any workplace, and stand out from the crowd.
Top responsibilities
- Contributing to discovery and research efforts. A successful UX designer contributes to discovery by listening in on user interviews, creating testable prototypes, and partnering with PMs and senior designers to uncover problems.
- Going wide on ideation and narrowing to valuable solutions via testing and iteration. After identifying which problems to solve, a successful UX designer will ideate and iterate quickly... narrowing on highly effective and proven solutions via robust testing.
- Contributing to the design of end-to-end product experiences on the Mobile App team. You will be responsible for being proactive and collaborating with senior UX partners to design and execute on experiences for the Vivint mobile app.
- Collaborates and communicates with their extended product development team. You are expected to find opportunities to collaborate and communicate with team members in engineering, product, and QA to define, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain products that balance user value, business value and technical feasibility.
Additional responsibilities include...
- Designing within the Vivint Design Library.
- Contributing to and maintaining the Vivint Design Library.
- Designing for accessibility needs.
- Proactively surfacing issues that could impact timelines or user experience.
- Design compelling experiences that will excite everyone who comes in contact with them.
- Organizing, labeling, and structuring your files in a way that is understandable to others... allowing them to find and move through and comprehend the information you're sharing.
- Creating prototypes.
- Creating robust handoff documentation for engineering via our standardized handoff process
- Working with engineers during and after the development of your products to ensure that the design intent is achieved.
Previous experience / qualifications
- Knowledgeable in a broad range of design methodologies.
- A PDF or online portfolio demonstrating a thoughtful design process that clearly shows your ability to design pleasant and functional end to end experiences.
- A passion for design with a high attention to detail.
- Solid visual design skills.
- Experience at all stages of the design process - making wireframes, building prototypes, crafting high-fidelity visual designs.
- Comfort designing in Figma
You'll fit in well if...
- You are passionate about owning a product from start to finish.
- You put people first, ego last.
- You're not afraid to ask why. A lot.
- You're comfortable with creating definition from ambiguity.
- You are collaborative.
- You are excited about the smart home space and are willing to think about innovative experiences without limits.
Working Conditions
- Open office environment
- Primary Location of Employment: Lehi, UT
- Based on placement location, the schedule of your work week will be a hybrid work schedule: a combination of remote work and in-office per team needs
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.
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