Internship - UX/UI Design (EN) - June 2022
Optimy, Belgium
Job Description
Optimy is a project management software (SaaS) that helps companies to bring to life their positive social impact initiatives.
With our four solutions (grants, donation, volunteering and sponsorship) we help more than 300 clients in over 30 countries and support them in their willingness to do good to society. Our client portfolio includes Audi, L’Oréal, Michelin France, TUI, Petrobras and many others.
Our main goal? Making sure that our customers' social impact projects are successful by making their processes more efficient and easy to set up in our intuitive flexible tool.
With a scale-up mindset and a drive for results, we all work towards one common objective: Making an impact on the world of philanthropy and CSR through Tech!
Our dynamic and international team is the keystone of our success. Optimy headcount grew by 33% in 2021, and despite the context we all know, revenue has grown by 22%!
Do you also wish to contribute to society, empower your social impact and make a difference? Then apply to one of our openings ! We would be very happy to hear from you.
Your Mission
You will be a part of our new dedicated Design System team, who works on creating the components, patterns, interactions, and behaviors that define and underpin our product's user experience. Your main responsibility will be to support the implementation of the new design system by providing UI designs. The day to day tasks will include;
- Conduct UX desk research for Optimy products.
- Auditing existing components, content amp; interactions.
- Work with other designers holistically to raise the quality bar and contribute to our design system by creating new components, styles, and interactions.
- Support team-wide adoption of the Design System, manage changes, and promote input from different teams.
- Support the UX designers in documenting and maintaining usage guidelines and specs for components and patterns within the system.
- Influence product specifications and complete design work with a high level of polish.
- Ensure final mockups are pixel perfect before development handoff. (Annotations are a must).
- Manage updates from beginning to completion - from ideation, to design, and to development to guarantee a finished product at launch.
- Liaise with the accessibility specialist to ensure that the accessibility standards are met.
- Work closely with the UX designers, accessibility specialists amp; front-end developers
- Create illustrations, icons, visuals, infographics, data visualizations etc
- Create prototypes based on wireframes and mockups
Your Profile
- Passionate about UX amp; UI design you know and follow best practices and are proficient with modern product interface design.
- Able to conceptualize, wireframe and design user interfaces and holistic user experiences.
- Able to apply critical, user-focused decision making and design-thinking to establish a consistent experience and information hierarchy
- Working knowledge of Figma
- You are a communicative team player with a healthy dose of independence.
- Sharing knowledge, curiosity, drive and flexibility are part of your DNA.
- Excellent level of English
- You study HCI, product design , graphic design or other related courses
- Flexibility to work with changing priorities
- Desirable: Basic knowledge of Front-end development (HTML/CSS)
- An internship agreement is provided by your university!
The Offer
- A real job experience, you won’t stand at the copy machine!
- A young, dynamic and international-minded working atmosphere
- The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing project
- As a contribution we grant 300/month to all the students
To learn more about us, don't hesitate to check out our Culture Playbook on our website : https://www.optimy.com/en/company/optimy-jobs.