New York Times
Product Design Internship
Job Description
The New York Times is seeking a Product Design Intern for this summer.
Applications without links to portfolios/work samples will not be considered.
What It’s All About
Working alongside designers, design directors, product owners, engineers, and newsroom editors, you will help further develop a comprehensive style guide and component library framework in order to help create a consistent visual language across all of The New York Times’ digital products.
What You’ll Do
On the Product Design team you will work on gathering, cataloguing and reviewing various style elements and components to populate our style guide and component library to be shared and used by the product design team. You’ll be creating Sketch components and code samples for team members to easily reuse.
Recommended skills / characteristics include the following:
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Curious, thoughtful, collaborative, personable, organized, attentive to detail and possess strong verbal and presentation skills
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Able to provide samples of work that show creative UX solutions, exceptional visual design and solid information architecture
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Love giving and receiving honest, thoughtful feedback
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Believe that product and design decisions are inextricably linked
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Enthusiasm – for designing and making great products and experiences is essential
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Comfortable, and even excited about, working outside your comfort zone
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Unafraid to learn new things and tackle a problem
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A passion for The New York Times, typography, color, layout, UI/UX and reusable patterns
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The ability to communicate and collaborate well with a smart, diverse team is a must
You’ll love interning at The New York Times! It’s a unique opportunity to work at a historic and innovative global media organization dedicated to enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. Our amazing journalists create enough original content on a daily basis to roughly equal a Harry Potter novel! But besides all that, it’s fun! NYT interns benefit from great pay, great perks and amazing networking. Your work will have direct impact and you might even meet a celebrity or two!
The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.
Apply here.