UX Woman · 3 months ago
Creative Career Changer
United States
Full-time
Remote
New GradUX Woman is dedicated to supporting women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ individuals in breaking into tech through their UX apprenticeship program. The program offers mentorship and hands-on experience in UX design, research, and product development over a 7-month period, preparing apprentices for high-paying roles in the industry.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Build digital products and services 0-1
Lead end-to-end design process for a startup idea or topic of your choice
Lead product scoping and feature scoping, as well as entire project management
Identify target market for product and position product for launch success
Develop a business model for the product or service and demonstrate how the product/service will scale as the business model scales
Lead discovery research by managing user recruitment, creating research plans, writing interview guides, leading 8-16 discovery interviews, and synthesizing interview insights
Deliver a compelling UX design and business pitch for your startup idea, showcasing both qualitative and quantitative data to justify the problem space and the solution
Tell a compelling story about users by showcasing user types, personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service blueprints, ideation matrixes, sketches, wireframes, UX workflows, prototypes and other visual deliverables
Lead user testing of wireframes and prototypes to improve product/service usability and constantly iterate on your startup idea
Design a unique design system for your solution from scratch, creating components, a style guide, and branding for your solution
Analyze direct and indirect competitors to clearly articulate your solution’s differentiators and why your solution is innovative and more likely to succeed over competing options
Consult with startups to create a scope of work and fulfill UX research, UX design, product design and service design work based on your scope of work
Qualification
Required
Interested in creative tech career paths in UX research, UX design, product design or service design
Willing to commit 5-10 hours of work per week to complete program deliverables
Willing to attend 2-3 hour weekend lectures to learn the end-to-end design process OR willing to complete online video course modules
Open to feedback from UX mentors and demonstrates a willingness to revise design work
Benefits
1:1 mentorship throughout the 7-month program
Helping women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ folks break into tech
Coaching until you land 6-figure UX jobs
Company
UX Woman
Calling all women ready to conquer tech! We’ll help you land a 6-figure UX job in 7 months—or coach you every step of the way until you make it.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase