Product Design Apprentice

We’re looking for curious, collaborative, and creative individuals to join our 6-month Product Design apprenticeship program. This program focuses on bringing aspiring designers from non-traditional, diverse backgrounds into our Design team to develop and work on complex and challenging problems. Our apprenticeships create opportunities for people just entering tech to gain the skills, experience and mentorship necessary for a pathway into Asana.

During this apprenticeship, you’ll work directly with dedicated Design mentors who are trained and motivated to ensure your success. You’ll also have the opportunity to work with Engineering, User Research, Product Management, Data Science, and the rest of our amazing Design crew to ship experiences that make it as simple as possible for teams big and small to realize the value of Asana.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

About the design team

We design the future of teamwork. Asana has a bold, ambitious mission: help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. Our design team is at the heart of that mission.

Asana Design is an inclusive and collaborative community. We’re a diverse group of designers from different backgrounds (product, brand and content design, design operations, producers, motion design, film, copywriting). We are a team that loves combining research, data insights, and peer feedback into a human-centered design process to produce designs that are core to the power of our applications. We partner with people across Asana to create our product, shape our brand, and drive greater impact through design. We use design to solve challenges and create experiences that customers love. We also take the time to get weird and have fun along the way.

We believe every designer should have the opportunity to grow and learn by utilizing their strengths and nurturing their interests.

Learn more about our team

• Asana Design
• Asana Design Medium
• Asana Design Instagram
• Asana Design Twitter
• Asana Dribbble

Asana culture 

• Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging
• How we’ve designed a culture that fuels our business results
• How I advanced my career through AsanaUP
• How we use (and don’t use) job titles at Asana

What you’ll achieve

• Pair with our experienced designers, who will enhance your collaboration skills and grow your ability to identify and transform complex problems into intuitive, human-centered solutions
• Be actively involved in the end-to-end design process by exploring concepts, ideating on solutions in jams, and creating engineering-ready final designs in Figma
• Contribute to everything from broad strategic discussions to the specifics of a component or interaction
• Collaborate with seasoned designers to learn new methodologies for divergent thinking and understand its impact on end users
• Work under the direction of a design mentor, while collaborating with cross-functional partners to identify problems, set strategy, establish vision, ship projects, and gather insights
• Experience career growth and personal development with world-class mentorship and development programs

About you

• Non-traditional design background facing barriers of entry into the tech industry, including but not limited to: graduating from a bootcamp, being self-taught in product design, no formal design-related degree, or no full-time experience in product design roles 
• Possess a portfolio with a solid foundation in human-centered design practices that showcases interaction and interface design skills
• Ability to express ideas via stories and prototypes
• Aptitude to come up with novel, simple solutions
• Experience with Figma or similar design tools
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, curiosity, and eagerness to learn and grow
• Passion for creating a high-quality user experience, down to those little details that matter
• Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture where everyone brings their whole selves to work

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated hourly rate is $57.50 per hour. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the compensation and benefits for this role.

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences 

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. 

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations.

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