UX Intern @ Dragos | Simplify Jobs

As a UX/UI intern at Dragos, you’ll work across design, product, and engineering teams to refine your skills and gain experience in new areas. This offers the opportunity to work remotely and learn from seasoned experts to get the hands-on experience needed for a successful career in UI/UX. You will help understand and incorporate customer needs to aid in creating the best user experience of Dragos’s platforms.

This role offers the unique opportunity to become part of a knowledgeable team and growing company that is helping to defend and secure critical infrastructure. Hone your skills while learning more about the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity and contribute to an amazing mission and culture of “Safeguarding Civilization.”

Responsibilities

Participate in usability research studies
Research and prototype effective interaction patterns
Create artifacts for products, including sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, user flows, or UI designs
Work and learn from senior designers to contribute to our design system
Join critiques with the design team
Advocate for a human-centered and inquisitive culture in the organization
Gain additional experience with tools, such as Figma.

Requirements

A current or recent study of UX design, UI design, or equivalent relevant subjects
Demonstrable understanding of design principles
Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience using design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, XD, Invision), an interest in cybersecurity, and familiarity with remote work environments
While we do ask for a current portfolio, written case studies may be substituted. Please include your areas of interest within the design discipline (e.g., visual design, information architecture, accessibility)

Work Schedule and Compensation

Interns are expected to work no more than 20 hours a week from January 30, 2023, through May 12, 2023
$20/hour
A laptop and necessary software will be provided

Dragos is the Industrial Cybersecurity expert on a relentless mission to safeguard civilization. In a world of rising cybersecurity threats, Dragos protects the most critical infrastructure – those that provide us with the tenets of modern civilization – from increasingly capable adversaries who wish to do it harm. Devoted to codifying and sharing our in-depth industry knowledge of ICS/OT systems, Dragos arms industrial defenders around the world with the knowledge and tools to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. Founded by world-class industrial intelligence experts, Dragos has the industry’s largest team of ICS/OT practitioners who have been on the front lines of the world’s most significant industrial cyber-attacks.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are core values at Dragos, and we are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment for all. We know that every member of our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and discover, design, and deliver solutions. Not only does a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion focus enrich our environment and teams, but it is also critical to our success as we defend against adversaries all over the world. The broad range of ideas, experiences, and perspectives is critical to our success.

Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.

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