Allstate

Experience Design Intern (Arity)

September 10, 2024
Internship

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

Founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, Arity is a data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data, using predictive analytics to build solutions with a single goal in mind: to make transportation smarter, safer and more useful for everyone. At the heart of that mission are the people that work here—the dreamers, doers and difference-makers that call this place home. As part of that team, your work will showcase both your intelligence and your creativity as you tackle real problems and put your talents towards transforming transportation. That’s because at Arity, we believe work and life shouldn’t be at odds with one another. After all, we know that your unique qualities give you a unique perspective. We don’t just want you to see yourself here. We want you to be yourself here. 

 

The Experience Design Team 

Made up of design leads, experience designers, content designers, design researchers, UI engineers, and visual designers, our Experience Designer Team works collaboratively across departments to capture the emotions and needs of our end users – which are reflected in all the ways they experience Arity and our products. Using a lean and agile approach, our XD team works across areas focused on driving data visualization, driving behavior analysis, urban planning, and shared mobility. They meet each project with deep empathy in order to craft useful and usable interface design solutions. Together, we design experiences that have real impact on the personal transportation industry and its future. Are you ready for the challenge? 

 

 

The Role 

The Experience Designer Consultant Intern will support the framing of problems and provide help with innovative design solutions that meet user needs, while fulfilling key business objectives for a diverse range of products and experiences. They are ready to support other Design team members on concepts and early discovery work, as well as iterating on a mature product while embedded within a product team. On their product team, the Experience Designer Consultant Intern is communicating and collaborating with their Design pair, as well as with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Marketing. They will create and extend designs, prototypes and other design asserts in order to facilitate the communication of the recommended solution. 

Job Description 

  • Use human-centered design approaches to frame problems, uncover patterns, discover opportunities, and visualize possibilities. 
  • Understand and interpret brand, user, and business needs to develop innovative, creative, and results-oriented solutions 
  • Support the creation of rapid iterations of designs that can be tested and validated quickly 
  • Help conduct quick feedback loops through frequent and appropriate user research, testing, and metrics analysis 
  • Help product team assess and prioritize opportunities, constraints, and features 
  • Articulate your ideas clearly and effectively using design and prototyping tools and similar methods 
  • Partner with experience design team specialists when appropriate for the product 
  • This job does not have supervisory duties 

Job Qualifications 

  • Target Start Date: May/June 2025 
  • Ability to work collaboratively and think flexibly, partnering with product, engineering, data science, marketing, and each other 
  • Passionate toward human-centered design. 
  • Ability to handle and enjoy projects from huge initiatives to simple requests 
  • Mindset to work with a variety of methodologies and processes, and suggest improvements to them. 
  • Ability tow work in an Agile product development environment 
  • Ability to effectively engage and effectively communicate ideas and contributions 
  • Keep up-to-date in user experience, interaction design and user research by monitoring trends, attending workshops and conferences, joining professional groups, and sharing our craft and successes. 
  • Familiarity with design tools, such as Sketch and Figma, prototyping tools like InDesign or Axure, and collaboration tools like MURAL 
  • Compensation offered for this role is between $20 and $42 an hour and is based on experience and qualifications.

Skills

Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-OrientedJoining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good. 

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. 

Good Hands. Greater Together.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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