User Experience Intern

About Starburst

At Starburst, we are working to dismantle the status quo of data silos and vendor lock-in every single day. For decades, database companies have held their customers hostage and we believe that’s just plain wrong. Starburst offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform, built on open source Trino. Our platform includes all the capabilities needed to discover, organize, and consume data without the need for time-consuming and costly migration projects. Today more than 300 leading organizations trust us to make better decisions faster. 

Though Starburst has raised $414M in venture funding from top investors, we were founded in a rather unusual way as we bootstrapped the business with customers and revenue from the very beginning! We are a remote-first company with employees all over the world and are proud to be named a Best Place to Work. Come join our team of All-Stars!

About the Role

Are you a skilled designer and research enthusiast pursuing a future in user experience? The UX team at Starburst Data is seeking a summer intern to help make an impact in the lives of our customers through customer research, user data, and iterative prototyping to deliver delightful designs. You will apply your education and refine your design and research skills with hands-on experience. 

Throughout your internship, you’ll partner with and be mentored by the UX design and research team, and work closely with the product management, engineering, and documentation teams. We expect that you’ll complete the internship with a quality piece you can showcase in your portfolio.

This paid internship will span 10 weeks in Summer 2024. 

Need tips on how to apply for an internship? Read Starburst’s blog, What to Know When Applying for a UX Internship and have your application stand out.

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and writers.
• Design and run usability studies and surveys.
• Translate requirements into user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Interpret user feedback and provide recommendations to direct design decisions.

• Currently a rising senior or recent graduate of a diploma/degree in User Experience, User Experience Research, HCI, certificate program, or related field.
• A portfolio of recent work.
• Experience applying user-centered design methodologies.
• Experience applying evaluative user research methodologies.
• Experience with testing and survey tools.
• Experience with design and prototyping tools.
• The ability to work independently in a remote capacity, as well as within a team environment.

Why build your career at Starburst?

We live by our three core company values: Character, Competence, and Ownership and are a team of top performers. We are each in the driver’s seat, shaping our organization and working together towards our common mission. We are solving exceptionally complex and meaningful challenges here and as we innovate, we each have the opportunity to build our careers alongside Starbursts’s growth.

We take care of our global workforce by making sure employees enjoy competitive salaries and attractive stock grants, remote-friendly work options, flexible paid time off, and more!

Starburst Data is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place to work. Everyone is welcome at the Starburst table and we have several employee resource groups such as Womxn At Starburst, Starburst Military, and Starburst Pride. We know that the more diverse perspectives we have at the table will only serve us to make a better team and company. 

Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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