UX Woman: Entry Level Product Design Apprenticeship
Headquarters: Narberth, PA 19072, USA URL: http://www.uxwoman.com
About the Program
UX Woman sponsors 2 remote UX apprentices each year from anywhere in the world. The 7-month program is offered 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. This helps them attract hiring managers in their chosen topic space or industry.
Apprentices receive the program for free and get 1:1 mentorship throughout the 7-month program. Alumni UX apprentices typically earn 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.
Apprenticeship Requirements
This apprenticeship program is open to new grads and UX career changers. Here are the requirements:
- 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
To apply, please fill out the application form. The application takes 5 minutes and asks for your LinkedIn profile and resume, as well as why you are interested in the program. You do NOT need a UX resume or portfolio to apply. UX Woman considers those at the very beginning of their career change.
You will receive UX tips and challenges via email. You will be contacted if you are being considered for the apprentice program. You will then 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.
Apply here: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/ux-woman-entry-level-product-design-apprenticeship