UI & UX Internship - Summer 2025

About the position

UKG's Intern Academy program is dedicated to helping college students jump start their business careers at a top-ranked technology company that cares about its people. Our interns work on enriching projects that have a significant business impact on the future of our company. In addition to your day-to-day work with your team, interns get to experience our award-winning culture through mentorship, learning programs, team-building activities, networking events, and more. We have big ideas - and need big thinkers to help us realize them.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to enhance the user experience and ensure proper accessibility of UKG products
• Planning and conducting moderated and unmoderated usability tests
• Investigating and documenting user journeys throughout the products
• Translating strategy, business requirements and usability best practices into high-quality designs that support and reinforce UKG's product vision, brand, and business objectives
• Understanding standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluate the usability of products with assistive technologies
• Collaborating with engineers to identify, reproduce, prioritize, and document defects
• Creating UI component libraries to help designers consistently comply with UKG patterns in their mockups
• Documenting and expanding on the UKG Design Language System (DLS) so that it can be easily consumed across the organization and meet the latest and greatest product suite needs.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, UX design, HCI, visual arts, graphic design, cognitive psychology, or similar field. Work samples may be requested.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, polished interpersonal skills, strong self-motivation and maturity.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Working knowledge of Sketch and/or Figma a plus
• Experience developing desktop, mobile and responsive web applications with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) or Accessibility best practices is a bonus
• Experience or familiarity with user research methods such as usability tests, surveys, and/or interviews

Benefits

• Wellness programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Customizable expense reimbursement program (U Choose) for various needs including student loan repayment, childcare, and pet insurance