Web Design Intern

You are a web designer that thinks as deeply about user experience and the narrative of a story as you do visual elements. You’re not scared to be objective about your own work and start from the drawing board when it doesn’t meet your high standards. Plus, you have the drive to take charge of several design processes of a small but growing startup.

You’re interested in creating engaging and informative stories within a web framework and understand its criticality within the user journey.  Ideally, an interest in the outdoors and gardening is great, but it’s okay if you’re not a green thumb.

What you will be doing:

GrowSquares is searching for a web designer who will take the lead in developing key assets for its website and various and extending the GrowSquares brand to additional web-based platforms. You will be responsible for ensuring the visual quality, narrative and user experience of our website both adheres to and expands our existing brand strategy.

• 3+ years within Bachelor degree in a design-related field, though master’s preferred
• At least two year’s experience in either UI/UX, product or visual design, with an emphasis on web-based products
• An understanding of user research methods, preferably with experience in interviewing users and synthesizing results
• Experience with creating, maintaining and updating branding style guides and component libraries.
• Extensive knowledge of design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite, Framer, or others

Additional responsibilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, familiar with tools like Slack
• Estimate, plan, and execute working with varying levels of functional specifications and requirements
• Provide internal team support: specifications and scoping, and coordination to roadmap milestones, LAUNCH!
• Support partner and community members: training, onboarding

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.