UX Woman: Entry Level UX Design Apprenticeship
Headquarters: Narberth, PA 19072, USA URL: http://www.uxwoman.com
About the Program
Every year, UX Woman sponsors 2 remote UX apprentices from anywhere in the world to join for 7 months, either in the fall or spring seasons or online. Apprentices work through the end-to-end UX design and UX research process for a startup idea of their choice, helping them attract hiring managers in that topic space or industry.
Apprentices take the program for free and receive 1:1 mentorship throughout the 7-month program. Alumni UX apprentices go on to make between $85,000 - $130,000 in UX design, product design, UX research, or service design roles after completing the program.
UX Woman is committed to helping women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ folks break into tech and land 6-figure UX jobs. They help you land 6-figure UX jobs or coach you until you get it.
Apprenticeship Requirements
This apprenticeship program is open to new grads and UX career changers alike! Here are some apprenticeship requirements to keep in mind before applying:
- Interested in creative 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
Apprenticeship Program Learnings
- 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.
How to Apply
Please fill out the application form to apply for UX Woman sponsoring your participation in the program. The application takes 5 minutes to complete and will ask you to send in your LinkedIn profile and resume, as well as ask you about why you are interested in this program. You do NOT need to have a UX resume or portfolio to apply - UX Woman considers folks who are at the very beginning of their career change, who are still exploring multiple career options.
You will receive UX tips and challenges via email to help you with your transition into UX and will be contacted if you are being considered for the apprentice program. Once contacted, you will go through a brief interview process before joining the cohort. Due to the large volume of applicants, UX Woman cannot contact all applicants about their application status. If you don’t hear from them about an interview within 2 months of applying, please consider your application closed. They consider applicants on a rolling basis.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/ux-woman-entry-level-ux-design-apprenticeship