Product Design Intern

The Innovation and Development Division (IDD) drives the innovation strategy for the Hubs and Operations, and contributes to the Group's transformation. It is responsible for imagining, developing and incubating new solutions until they are brought to market, particularly when it comes to offers with a high technological content (including digital and IT). IDD gathers more than 3,000 employees from 70 nationalities at 60 sites.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Within the Innovation and Development Division (IDD), the Digital & IT teams design, develop and run products and services enabling more efficient processes and improving the experience of our employees, customers and patients. By harnessing data, they also develop new approaches with the business, enabling Air Liquide’s staff to make the best decisions, create solutions driving competitive advantage, all the while minimizing our carbon intensity and that of our customers. Driving value for the business, Digital & IT contributes to the company’s digital transformation, operational excellence, customer intimacy and growth goals.

Supporting our digital and worldwide market leaders and corporate Data Officers, La Digital Factory positions Air Liquide at the cutting edge of the data, design, user research and software engineering fields, to accelerate value creation of transformative initiatives through product-centric and data-driven approaches. The Product Design team of La Digital Factory Paris operationally supports the Group data strategy, while exploring and substantiating the opportunities of value creation by leveraging data science and cutting edge data-related technologies.

What is the Digital Factory?
Digital Factory positions Air Liquide at the cutting edge of data, user research, design and software engineering accelerating the value created for transformative initiatives. Our product-centric and data-driven focus is at the heart of supporting our digital business, global market and corporate data leaders. Digital Factory is made up of local and international teams designing the future of digital products for Air Liquide.

Join Americas Digital Factory Product Design Team
The Product Design team within Digital Factory plays a critical role in delivering the most desirable experience to our internal and external customers. The people we help are everywhere—inside and outside of the company—and are recognized as users, customers, patients and employees.

We're a fun team of local and international research and design experts who are passionate about the culture of design and innovation we add to the company. One day you could be helping Air Liquide deploy an AI readiness program, the next day help design solutions to optimize the routes of delivery trucks, or participate in the research of a global climate change initiative. If you enjoy working independently, learning by doing, sharing your experience with others and making a visible impact, then Air Liquide’s Digital Factory is a great fit for you.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Design, the Product Design intern is responsible for the success of the team’s design and research initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to be an early learning Product Design Intern and be a part of an interdisciplinary team that creates stellar data-driven and user-centric solutions. You will be responsible for supporting and improving the design system work for our design team by contributing to existing components and documenting use cases. Additional responsibilities will include working with other product designers, researchers, business stakeholders and software engineers to discover different approaches to solving a user’s problem while also considering business goals and technical constraints. You will have an opportunity to contribute to the creation of user workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and low / hi fidelity mockups. There will also be an opportunity to learn about and support the on-going research work centralizing insights which validate the team’s product strategy and design efforts.

Role Objectives

• Learn how to translate user needs and business requirements into design

• Support the design and delivery of wireframes, mockups and prototypes

• Support the visual communication of key programs and deliverable presentations

• Learn about, optimize, and document components for the existing design system in Adobe XD and Figma

• Contribute knowledge and use of latest technologies and techniques for research and product design

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Are you a MATCH?

Required

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree or higher with a target graduation date of 2023 or 2024

• Have an online portfolio

• Familiar with and/or passionate about UX design and user research methodologies

• Familiar with design software such as Figma, Adobe XD and Creative Cloud

• Passion for understanding users’ needs honing his/her visual design skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Applies UX principles to own ways of working to be well organized and a good teammate be well-organized and collaborative

• Careful attention to details

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all levels

• Entrepreneurial spirit

• Team player, open-mindedness and eagerness to learn

• Proficiency in English

Preferred

• Prior internship experience

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.