Product Design Intern

Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. With expertise in Machine Learning and data discovery, we develop and deploy novel solutions for S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Our solutions help businesses harness the power of data and Artificial Intelligence to innovate and drive progress. Kensho's solutions and research focus on speech recognition, entity linking, document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, natural language processing, and more.

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy and support needed to build amazing technology and products. We collaborate using our teammates' diverse perspectives to solve hard problems. Our communication with one another is open, honest and efficient. We dedicate time and resources to explore new ideas and, as a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and useful. 

Are you open to experimenting on what it means to create design best practices in this ever changing world of generative AI? Do you like collaborating with your team members on fast paced products? Do you like to use user research and analytical insights to create thoughtful products? If so, we would love to have you join our design team. Our design team is a tight-knit team and we work closely with our engineers and product team to create great financial products. We are looking for a designer who loves to collaborate and loves to learn. 

What You’ll Do:

• Plan, conduct and integrate user research findings into the products you design

• Iterate on and validate concepts using sketches, interaction diagrams, wireframes, UI designs, interactive prototypes, and more.

• Design complex interactions and ship high quality generative AI products.

• Collaborate with fellow designers on design standards to continuously enhance and elevate Kensho’s products

• Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and machine-learning engineers on each step of the design process, from early user and market research through to implementation

What We Look For:

• A portfolio of design work highlighting thoughtful UX and UI design from sketches to polished UI.

• Ability to clearly articulate your design process.

• Skill in thinking about scale: how data scales, how content scales, and how layouts scale from wide desktops down to mobile formats.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to articulate user flows and define application architecture.

• Understanding of UI paradigms and the ability to apply or adapt the most appropriate one to each problem.

• Skill in the use of typography and information hierarchy, especially in data-dense interfaces or graphics.

What Really Gets Our Attention (applicants need not meet all of these!):

• Experience designing for data-dense and/or AI-driven products

• Experience or finance background

Technologies We Like:

• Figma

• User research platforms like userinterviews, usertesting.com, etc

About Kensho

Kensho uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and data visualization techniques to solve some of the hardest analytical problems and create breakthrough financial intelligence solutions for our parent company, S&P Global. 

Kensho was founded in 2013 by Harvard & MIT alums and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain our distinct, independent brand and to promote our breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of Kenshins enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from S&P, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global.  As Kenshins, we pride ourselves on maintaining an innovative culture that depends on diversity and inclusion.

We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in New York City.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an additional office location in New York City. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.