Are you a design enthusiast eager to kickstart your career with a leading global company? Uber is offering an exciting Product Design Internship for freshers in India, with opportunities available in Bangalore and Hyderabad. This internship not only provides valuable experience but also comes with a stipend, making it an attractive option for aspiring designers. Applications are open until January 30, 2025, so let’s dive into what you need to know to apply successfully!
About the Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc. is a prominent American multinational transportation company that has revolutionized the way people travel. Founded in 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, started with a simple idea: to make it easier for people to request a ride through a mobile app. This innovative approach has since transformed into a global network providing various services, including ride-hailing, food delivery, and freight transport.
Uber’s innovative model has disrupted traditional taxi services by providing a more convenient and user-friendly alternative. By leveraging technology, Uber has made it possible for users to request rides with just a tap on their smartphones while enabling drivers to earn income flexibly. This shift has significantly influenced urban mobility patterns and contributed to the growth of the sharing economy.
ABOUT THE ROLE
At Uber we’re reimagining the way the world moves for the better. That means being bold in our decisions and building for something bigger. We’re seeking a hardworking and thoughtful design candidate to help define and execute against a giant vision that builds upon what Uber has brought to the world so far. All of our interns make an impact from day one. We are looking for someone who loves problem-solving and thrives on collaboration in a supportive workplace.
The team at Bangalore studio critically works on global products under Rides, Merchants, Mobility,Customer Obsession and Foundations. As a Product Design Intern working with the team, your number one job would be to make Mobility/Merchant and CO effortless through building magical experiences for our riders.You will work closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and UX researchers to iterate, build, and launch usable, useful and delightful frameworks. You’ll engage across all stages of a project, using your skills in concepting, prototyping, ux research, service design, information design, and spec delivery. Your work will span building experiences and frameworks consumer-facing experiences for Uber’s products like the micro-mobility, uber bus and core ride sharing experiences.
Responsibilities for Product Design Internship
- Embed directly in one of Uber’s product teams, working on a project in close collaboration with other designers & researchers.
- Experience the feeling of designing for millions of users – and hopefully teach us something too!
- Designers at Uber live and breathe prototypes – and are always up-to-date on the latest and greatest prototyping tools. During your internship, you’ll test out your design ideas with all kinds of high-and-low fidelity prototypes. By the end of your internship, you’ll be fully versed in new tools and trends.
- Work alongside other members of a product team to get the fit and finish right. You’ll experience release cycles and learn what details matter at each stage of the product development process.
- Utilize design system while evolving the framework to tackle new use cases.
- Present your work to the Design Team, and leave with valuable takeaways and portfolio pieces.
Requirements for Product Design Internship
- Actively pursuing a Bachelor’s/Master’s in Design.
- Expected graduation date- 2025/2026
- Intermediate conversational English skills, and confidence in reading / writing. Be willing to dedicate time for further development in the English language
- Availability to start in July 2025 or sooner, for a period of 6 months.
- Your growing portfolio has some standout work and at least one project that demonstrates the ability to build high-quality UI/UX. Can include academic work, hackathons, design competitions and/or publications.
Benefits for Product Design Internship
- You’re connected with the latest apps and design trends (on mobile, web, desktop, etc), and have ideas and opinions on how to make many of them even better.
- You might have an eye for motion, or iconography, or UX system flows, or modern UI visuals, or design engineering and prototyping, or sophisticated tool design, and more.
- A track record of shipping extraordinary design, and an understanding of what details matter at each stage of the release cycle.
- Experience with end-to-end (UI and UX) product design.
- A portfolio showing high quality, thoughtful UI and UX work.
We come up with creative solutions to seek sophisticated design problems. Our teammates have an incredible mix of design expertise across many design functions. Above all, we believe in craftsmanship, and crafting sophisticated, compelling, user centric designs.
COMPETENCIES: Product Design Internship
- Competencies are defined as skills, knowledge and abilities that lead to success (4-5 total).
- Technical (hard skills)
- Interaction & information design, User Centric Design. Design Thinking, Tools for Prototyping (nice to have), Behavioral Psychology, User Research
- Non-technical (soft skills)
- Self-learner & highly motivated, Curious, Ownership and Accountability, Collaborative and open to feedback, Dedicated and hardworking, Efficient time & stakeholder management
Deadline
30-Jan-2025, 11:59 PM.
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Location
India – Bangalore, Karnataka.
How to Apply?
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