UX Designer Co-op
Retail Business Services, ranked No. 25 on Fast Company’s 2022 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, is the services company of leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, currently providing services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the scale of the local brands to drive synergies and provides industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued. For more information, visit https://www.retailbusinessservices.com.
Are you passionate about design and innovation? Do you spend time figuring out how to improve the mobile apps you use? Then come and join our Propulsion Labs team at Retail Business Services, a proud company of Ahold Delhaize, a startup environment in the middle of a big corporate office. We are looking for passionate and curious problem solvers who are not afraid of working in a fast-paced environment alongside a multidisciplinary team.
Co-op Program Dates:
January 17th - June 9th
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Portfolio Managers, Product Owners and Stakeholders to collect project requirements
- Assist in conducting Design Thinking workshops/exercise to assist our Brands with understand their project ask
- Conduct interviews with end users
- Conduct primary and secondary research
- Provide feedback during sessions to help other designers on the team
- Work closely with Product Owners and UI Designers
Qualifications:
- Experience with conduction user research, analyzing and synthesizing the data to create and present insights
- Apply research and insights into understanding end user needs, desires, pains, and opportunities
- Ability to validate and refine experiences and prototypes based on feedback from users with UI Designers
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal
- Comfortable interfacing with business contacts to gather business requirements and feedback on our solutions with the team’s Product Owner
- Understanding of design concepts and strong ability to design applications with focus on usefulness and usability
- Have a passion for Design Thinking Methodologies and teaching others the benefits
- Prior experience using design tools at (at least 1 year) (Adobe Suite, Sketch / Figma, etc.)
- Online portfolio is a must
Required Programs: Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Nice to Know Programs: InDesign and AfterEffects, Mural
Education
Must be enrolled in a BS/BA, MS, or PhD program or a recent graduate in related field