Intern - UX Designer

Are you eager to dive into the world of user experience and create meaningful impact?

Here's your chance to shine as part of Akamai's UX Design Team!

Make an impact with our UX Teams!

As a UX Designer Intern, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a talented design team and help shape the future of our design system. Your creativity and innovation will drive our digital transformation by turning complex UI challenges into elegant solutions.

As a participant in our program, you will gain valuable experience and contribute through meaningful project work. You will have the opportunity to join us for training, networking events, and engagements with company leadership. Our internships are open to students and graduates.

Start: July 1st
Duration: 6 months
Salary: 36 PLN gross/h

Partner with the best

This is your chance to learn, grow, and leave your mark by contributing to a scalable, accessible, and consistent design system and products.

As a UX Designer Intern, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with seasoned UX professionals to craft intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces
• Assisting in creating and maintaining UI components, patterns, and guidelines for the design system, ensuring accessibility and usability
• Designing mockups, prototypes, and documentation for the design system and products
• Working with cross-functional teams, including designer, developers, and product management
• Participating in usability testing and gathering feedback on the design system and products, validating and iterating your designs
• Exploring UI and design system trends, bringing new tools and ideas to enhance the existing system and products.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be pursuing or recently completed a program in UX design, HCI, Graphic Design, or a related field.
• Demonstrate verbal and written communication skills in English (B1+) to articulate design concepts and collaborate effectively
• Have knowledge of UX design principles and tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe, Miro, Google Docs
• Have good visual design skills (typography, colors, composition and visual layouts) and an eye for detail
• Have understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Show portfolio demonstrating your ability in solving design challenges
• Have familiarity with user research techniques and usability testing

Work in a way that works for you

Our 6-month interm program starts in July. The program requires you to be available 40 hours per week during summer months (July-September). We offer the opportunity to work part-time during the academic year (October-December).

This is a flexible role and may be performed at your home and/or the local Akamai office (in the country advertised). We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more details when you apply.

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

• Through our intern and co-op programs we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Students also gain the following benefits directly from our programs:
  Mentorship
  Career development trainings
  Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats
  Networking and social events with an international intern cohort
  Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you! By the end of your assignment, you will gain a network of encouraging colleagues ready to support you in your studies and beyond.