Experience Design Intern (Summer 2023)

Job Description

Digital Ventures is now part of BCG X, home to the world’s best tech-build and design talent.

We are an ever-growing global team of the world’s most remarkable entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, venture architects, and product experts. Our ventures create a strategic advantage for the most important global companies.

Since our founding in 2014, we’ve partnered closely with 400+ clients – most of which are Fortune 500 organizations – to invent, launch, and scale innovative businesses that leverage and reinforce their core capabilities. The ventures we build with them are inclusive of both new, standalone companies, as well as those developed within the framework of the client organization. The growth and value realized through our corporate venturing work has even led clients to collaborate with us to build and launch multiple businesses.

Experience Design at BCGDV

Our experience designers are tasked with developing product and service solutions that consider all the complexities of delivering business and customer value. With immense attention to detail and forward-thinking leadership, they bring together the best of strategy, design, and technology development. This skillful choreography of venture ideas, brands, people, and emotions allows our XD team to impact millions of lives for the better.

Program Overview

We are looking for students currently pursuing Graduate degrees, graduating in Spring 2023, Winter 2023, or Spring 2024. The 10-week internship program will allow interns to gain valuable experience working on our current Ventures.

In this role you will:

• Participate in concept sessions by leveraging ethnographic research and design thinking
• Introduce trends and exemplars across a variety of emerging tech
• Balance customer frictions and needs with our client’s business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility
• Deliver concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, system maps, user flows, wireframes, visual design comps, and prototypes with Figma, Adobe CS, InVision, and other tools
• Incorporate user research and usability testing to iterate on product solutions
• Collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams including management consultants, product managers, engineers, marketers, and corporate executives
• Communicate product visions and articulate design decisions and trade-offs to partners and clients, both verbally and visually
• Partner with engineering to ensure designs are properly implemented
• Develop brand guidelines, online advertising, and websites
• Contribute to the design cohort through knowledge sharing and presentations with other designers

You should have:

• Currently pursuing a MA degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, UX Design, Service Design or a related subject from an accredited University
• 2+ years of professional experience as an Experience Designer building, prototyping, and continually evolving digital products from ideation to implementation
• Working experience with Figma, Adobe CS, and Zeplin
• Proven experience delivering concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
• Ability to communicate the process, approach, and impact of your design in verbal and visual presentation
• Excellent collaborative skills with colleagues and cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with Design Thinking methodology
• Able to participate effectively in qualitative user research usability testing
• Ability to excel in a dynamic, ever-changing environment
• A ready, online portfolio

The application deadline for Summer 2023 internships is October 31, 2022 .

Diversity & Inclusion at BCGDV

BCG Digital Ventures facilitates a sense of belonging where all employees, particularly those historically at the margins of society, can unapologetically bring authenticity to their work. Check out our commitments , progress, and areas we are working on to bring our DEI vision to life.

To learn more, visit us at bcgdv.com

Interested applicants may apply through the careers section of the website at https://www.bcgdv.com/ . Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

All new US hires must be fully vaccinated or subject to religious or medical exemptions. BCGDV will consider staff fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the final dose of a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine.

BCG Digital Ventures is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.