job_051512a: paid Design Internship at Walmart Labs

From: Kristin Burns <kristin.burns_at_stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 06:25:50 -0700

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>Title: Needed! Paid Web Design Intern for Walmart Labs
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>Four fonts walk into a bar. The bartender says,
>“We don’t serve your type here.”
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>Are you passionate about good design and
>advocate for customer experiences that WOW? If so, we’d love to meet you.
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>About Us
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>WalmartLabs has all the creativity and agility
>of a start up backed by the resources of
>Walmart. Located 20 minutes from San Francisco
>in San Bruno, Walmart Labs is a tightly knit
>team of 90 people looking to paint the future of ecommerce.
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>Sounds cool, more details please
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>You will be participating in our first ever,
>inaugural internship program with 15 other
>interns from around the country. As an intern,
>you will be assigned a mentor and a project for
>the summer. Position is full-time only.
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>Benefits include:
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>· Competitive salary
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>· Free drinks, snacks and Friday lunch
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>· Shuttle from the nearby Caltrain and BART to the office
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>· Office gym with free fitness classes. Crossfit anyone?
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>· T-shirts to rep Walmart labs
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>· General tom foolery – foosball,
>ping-pong, billiards, and Friday team happy hour
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>Project, eh?
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>Have you ever had no clue what to buy a friend
>for his birthday or Mom for Mother’s Day? The
>Shopycat Team _at_ Labs is building a gift
>recommendation engine. Our technology provides
>gift suggestions for your friend and Mom. Check
>it out here: <http://??>apps.facebook.com/shopycat.
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>Internship Duties
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>· Work with our Director of Marketing, Lead
>Designer, Product Manager and rest of the team
>in creating a marketing experiences and UI
>design for our product. This includes:
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>o Marketing creative
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>§ Email experiences
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>§ Landing pages for Marketing Campaigns
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>§ Display advertising campaigns
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>§ Mini-sites
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>§ Coming up with creative campaigns
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>o UI design for Social Shopping and Gift-giving applications
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>§ Facebook apps
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>§ Mobile apps
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>o User Experience testing
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>§ Engage with real customers and incorporate
>their feedback into the design and product plans.
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>Our ideal candidate – You!
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>· Passionate about e-commerce, online shopping, and good design.
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>· Enrolled in a Graphic Design, Web Design
>or related course at a 4 year university or masters degree program
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>· Very Experienced with Adobe products, in
>particular Photoshop and/or Fireworks. To apply,
>you need to show projects completed using these applications.
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>· Can produce UX deliverables such as
>wireframes and mocks. You must be able to
>explain design concepts to the team and
>communicate trade-offs that influenced the design process.
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>· Understand how function drives design.
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>To Apply, We need
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>· Your resume or Linkedin
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>· Portfolio online or in PDF form
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>On our current intern’s experience
>"My internship for _at_WalmartLabs is my first work
>experience and I couldn't expect anything
>better. I am learning a lot, applying some
>knowledge acquired in College, meeting extremely
>smart people and having a lot of fun playing
>Ping Pong at the office!" - Sabrine from
>University of Technology of Compiegne in France


Contact: Emily Poplawski at
<mailto:emily_at_walmartlabs.com>emily_at_walmartlabs.com

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