Security Engineering Intern

Summary

Join Podium's Product Design team as a Staff Product Designer and partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to build and ship creative solutions for small businesses globally. You will design workflows, interactions, prototypes, and visuals, directly impacting Podium, our customers, and their customers. As a design owner, you'll contribute to marketing tools and solutions, taking scheduling solutions from concept to completion and beyond. Your role involves collaborating on product development, conceiving innovative features, and engaging in cross-functional teams. You will contribute to high-level strategic decisions and lead projects and teams, mentoring fellow designers. This role requires a strong background in UX/UI design and a passion for creating intuitive experiences for local businesses.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience designing and shipping consumer-grade software—technical background or a familiarity with software engineering a plus!
• Capable of clarifying and simplifying complex information architecture to create approachable, self-service user experiences—familiarity with designing experiences with third-party integrations is also a plus!
• Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, or other design tool with a portfolio showcasing your work and strong mobile design skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. You’ll be expected to clearly communicate design decisions to leadership, the rest of the team, and to engineers
• A good practitioner of UX who is also flexible and adaptable, when needed, in the interest of learning fast
• Strong visual design skills and passion for interaction design
• Ability to prototype interactive mobile experiences
• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and act as Product Manager when needed
• You thrive in a sometimes ambiguous work environment where we think, build, learn and can work quickly towards solutions
• You are a creative thinker who has lots of ideas and sees solutions when most would not
• You have passion for building products to help local businesses

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively define and execute Podium scheduling experiences at the earliest stages of product development through to maturity
• Conceive of innovative new features, ideas, and flows, and pitch those concepts directly to the CEO
• Engage in a cross functional team that reaches beyond product, design and engineering to include business strategy, analytics, customer support, and marketing
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams
• Be a leader - Podium is a design-centric company and as a member of the Design Team you will be expected to lead projects and teams
• Be a coach - As an experienced, knowledgeable design leader you will be expected lift up your fellow designers and raise the bar through sharing, coaching and mentoring
• Conduct user research, create test plans and synthesize results to evolve a design concept
• Identify the needs of local businesses and improve on existing features
• Help define the short and long-term roadmap for your product area(s)
• Design beautiful, simple, innovative, and intuitive experiences and flows
• Regularly give and receive feedback on designs and strategic product decisions

Benefits

• Generous company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
• Excellent opportunities for career growth
• 401k with a competitive matching contribution plan
• Unlimited paid time off (generous vacation policy)
• Market competitive total compensation package
• If in Utah, a stellar onsite gym with local professional coaches, morning and night classes offered
• Access to Snowbird lift tickets
• Company sponsored tech talks (technology and other relevant professional topics)