User Experience Designer / Prototyper Intern
Combine your creative, beautiful designer side with your cutting-edge technical side to create the ultimate user experiences for the Energy IoT industry!
You aspire to be a designer and developer who can bring great software product designs to life, with an endless array of ideas and a continual thirst to. The mission of our UXD team is to investigate, create, prove, and evolve advanced UX concepts with an eye towards new trends in the use of AI and big data in helping people to be more productive and content. The challenge is to quickly implement high-quality functional prototypes with the focus on validating UX concepts and solving design issues early.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly build and iteratively refine realistic, interactive, data-rich web prototypes to demonstrate end-to-end conceptual stories of future products and workflows, both for near-team releases and for long-range visionary or experimental concepts.
- Actively participate during team ideation as the primary UI technical consultant who provides ideas from the outside world and helps to optimize between user experience and implementation cost/complexity.
- Transfer technical knowledge discovered during prototyping to development, and help to achieve fidelity between the design intent and actual implementation.
- Work deeply with development on the UI framework to advance design interests, including but not limited to: minimize technical costs of design changes, ease of UI customization, optimal design of UI widgets, appropriate theming mechanism.
- Improve the prototyping experience through tools and techniques to help the team be faster with higher quality.
Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience
- Experience using HTML, javascript and CSS styling.
- Strong interest for both UX and Technology; comfortably switches between UX creative destruction and technical practicality.
- Lives and breathes the user-centered design and the design thinking process.
- Have a builder “just do it, fail and learn” mentality, fearlessly creating and tenaciously iterating.
- Working towards or recently acquired a degree in Design, Computer Science, or a relevant field with a strong emphasis on design or equivalent industry experience.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience
- Experience with Javascript UI libraries (e.g. highcharts).
- Browser Debugging (e.g. Chrome’s Developer Tools, IE’s F12 Dev Tools, Firebug).
- Knowledge of rapid prototyping tools and techniques.
- Experience with low fidelity, “quick and dirty” design tools (e.g. Balsamiq).
- Experience in either using or designing for enterprise applications and the energy management / utilities business a plus.
- Understanding of visual design, color theory, typography, composition and iconography a plus
Business Unit
eMeter, a Siemens Business, is where leading edge utility-grade IoT (Internet of Thigns) and green-tech converge. Our mission is to provide robust, next-generation enterprise software and consumer applications that support innovative & clean energy technologies. Industrial IoT technology is a high-demand, exciting space that enables leading utilities world-wide to address the energy information challenges they face as they deal with significant technology, regulatory, and innovation challenges. eMeter’s executive team is made up of seasoned thought leaders in the metering technology space and they have a proven record of success in this emerging market.
We have created a culture that fosters open communication, collaboration and innovation. So, if you want to work in a challenging environment that offers growth, opportunity and the chance to make a real difference in the transitioning Energy Industry, you need to see what eMeter has to offer.