Apprentice Product Designer

Summary

Join Prismic, a SaaS CMS company, as an Apprentice Product Designer to support design efforts and learn to meet diverse customer needs. You will assist in solving product challenges, collaborating with a cross-functional team. Responsibilities include wireframing, prototyping, UI design, collaborating with researchers, and improving the design system. The role requires a portfolio showcasing software design skills, knowledge of UX methodologies, and a willingness to learn. Preferred skills include illustration, animation, and front-end development. Benefits include a MacBook Pro, health insurance, meal vouchers, and remote work options.

Requirements

• A portfolio or selection of projects (school, personal, freelance) showing your interest in designing software for desktop and/or mobile, with foundations in typography, interaction and visual design, and idea generation
• You love to iterate, edit, abandon, and start again
• A curiosity to understand complex scenarios and translate them into clear user flows
• Good knowledge of UX methodologies (from your studies or personal projects)
• Willingness to learn usability testing and research, with guidance from UX Researchers
• Eager to learn new practices and push boundaries of design tools by leveraging the latest AI capabilities
• You are used to working with a design system
• A learning and growth mindset: our team size and our design process will evolve over the next few years. We will learn quickly and integrate what we learn — from our work and from each other

Responsibilities

• Wire-frame, build end-to-end flows, prototype, design UI (while not forgetting the details, fonts, colours, spacings, interaction patterns, wordings*...*)
• Collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of UX Researchers, Product Managers, Developers and other Designers across every touchpoint of the user experience
• Work with UX researchers from the start and learn how to form a good understanding of our users and the problems we are solving
• Interact with our users to evaluate your proposed design solutions
• Help build our user's journeys, specific to their use cases & objectives
• Contribute to the improvement and documentation of our design system
• Get the freedom to work at the edge of new practices with AI tools that enables your workflow

Preferred Qualifications

• Huge plus if you are technically adept (it can get technical). You worked with developers extensively, you maybe have already built a website from scratch, or if you have used other CMSs before...? Some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript is a bonus
• Experience collaborating with distant teammates and understanding of the communication patterns within remote teams
• Any additional skills in illustration, animation, front-end development, or icon design are a plus!
• Familiarity with SaaS products or content management tools is appreciated but not required

Benefits

• Modern MacBook Pro, health insurance, meal vouchers, 50% of your public transport costs if you're based in Paris, unlimited coffee, tea, drinks, snacks and yoga in our Parisian HQ (11th arrondissement)
• Work alongside a diverse and talented team, on cutting-edge technology and challenging problems
• You get the chance to visit us from time to time and spend a few days at the Paris office
• We organize virtual events to stay connected with each other
• We also hold regular global meetings
• We do our best to nurture a relaxed and informal atmosphere, enabling you to feel supported, thrive at your job, and keep learning