Intern, Junior UX

As an Intern, Junior UX at SanMar, your primary role revolves around supporting various stages of the UX design process, including user research, brainstorming, prototyping, and testing. You’ll closely collaborate with junior and senior designers to ensure that all designs are user-centered and meet our business goals. This position is perfect for gaining hands-on experience while contributing to exciting projects.

To be eligible for the Intern, Junior UX position at SanMar, you should be pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in UX Design or Marketing. While experience in UX is preferred, showcasing a portfolio that reflects your design skills and understanding of user experience principles will greatly strengthen your application. Familiarity with design tools like Figma is also essential.

By joining SanMar as an Intern, Junior UX, you’ll develop a wide array of skills, including user research methods, wireframing, and prototyping with tools like Figma. You’ll also gain insights into maintaining design consistency and effectively collaborating with both junior and senior design team members, all while enhancing your ability to understand and meet user needs.

Yes, the Intern, Junior UX role at SanMar offers remote work flexibility! You’ll have the opportunity to work from home while connecting with your design team virtually, making this a great fit for students or those looking to balance work with other commitments.

As an Intern, Junior UX at SanMar, you’ll earn a competitive hourly wage of $21.39. In addition to this pay, you’ll accrue paid time off based on the hours you work, allowing you to enjoy a healthy work-life balance.

The Intern, Junior UX role is essential in supporting SanMar's mission to create intuitive and engaging user experiences. By assisting with research, design, and usability tests, you’ll ensure that our products align with user needs and business objectives, helping drive the success of our offerings.

The work environment for the Intern, Junior UX at SanMar is collaborative and nurturing, emphasizing support and growth. You’ll engage with a creative team dedicated to producing high-quality designs while enjoying the flexibility that comes with remote work, all within a moderately quiet atmosphere.

When asked about your user research process, start by outlining your approach to gathering insights about user needs. Describe how you utilize interviews, surveys, or usability testing, emphasizing the importance of empathy in understanding user perspectives. Highlight your readiness to ask questions and learn from experienced team members to refine your skills further.

In answering this question, mention key design principles such as usability, accessibility, and aesthetics. Explain how these principles guide your design choices to create user-friendly interfaces and highlight any personal experiences or projects where you've successfully applied them.

Discuss your positive approach to feedback, emphasizing your openness to constructive criticism. Share examples of how you've implemented feedback in your ongoing projects, explaining how it helped you grow as a designer and improved your designs.

Be prepared to mention various tools you're familiar with, such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or InVision. Share experiences using these tools in past projects, particularly in wireframing or prototyping, to showcase your practical skills and readiness for the Intern, Junior UX role.

Explain your strategy for aligning designs with user needs, which could include conducting user research, creating personas, or analyzing user feedback. Illustrate your response with specific examples of how these methods led to successful design outcomes in previous work.

When discussing challenges, share a specific aspect of the UX design process that you find demanding but also rewarding. Reflect on your experiences and what you have learned from those situations, demonstrating your ability to grow and adapt as a designer.

Talk about a project where team collaboration was key. Describe your role, the contributions made by others, and the outcome of the project. This will illustrate your communication skills and ability to effectively work within a team.

Express your understanding of the significance of staying updated with design trends in the UX field. Share how you follow industry news, blogs, or design communities to gather fresh ideas and how you’ve applied those insights to enhance your work.

When asked about your design style, feel free to share its characteristics, such as being clean and minimalistic or bold and innovative. Provide examples of projects that reflect your style and how it aligns with users' preferences and needs, showing that you can adapt to different project requirements.

In answering this question, share your passion for creating user-friendly experiences and solving problems through design. Talk about any experiences or projects that inspired you to follow this path and how you plan to continue developing your skills in UX.