Summer 2021 internship
Unity Technologies is rapidly growing. We are seeking a User Experience Researcher Intern who is curious, motivated, organized, innovative, and able to manage ambiguity to help with understanding our users’ needs and translating that into actionable insights our Design, Product, and Engineering teams can use to build the best products in the market.
The UX Research team envisions an insights-driven culture where everyone has the user insights necessary to make confident product and organizational decisions that result in an amazing experience for our users. We do this, in partnership with our stakeholders, by empowering the organization to deeply empathize with our users and understand their needs and experiences.
As a UX Research Intern, you could work on features that either help creators easily build 3D content and/or help creators build a successful business around their content.
Responsibilities
- Lead a research study that informs a feature, product, or business decisions.
- Plan, design, implement, and distill complex ideas into succinct thoughts and impactful storytelling for relevant research questions using a toolkit of research methods to build empathy for users across the organization.
- Partner with cross-discipline product teams of UX Designers and Researchers, Product Managers, Developers, and Quality Assurance.
- Adapt and innovate research methods to meet product needs in a fast paced work environment
- Maintain research quality using excellent written and oral communication skills.
Basic Requirements
- Masters or PhD students registered to a Canadian university in a relevant program
- Having completed at least 1 relevant internship
- Graduation date in December 2021 or in 2022
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- English Proficiency
Specific Requirements
- Experience with User Experience, Human Computer Interaction, and/or applied product research
- A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and deliverables from generative, formative, and summative research
- Familiarity with design thinking
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with 3D Real-Time engines and/or game development.
- Past experience with facilitating design workshops
- Familiarity with unmoderated testing tools (e.g., UserTesting, Validately, etc.)
- Familiarity with advanced survey tools (e.g., Qualtrics).
What to expect from your internship here?
- Duration: During 16 weeks, from May 3 to August 20 2021, you will develop your skills by contributing to stimulating projects that will have an actual impact on Unity products.
- Mentoring: You’ll be working simultaneously with a manager and a mentor to help you develop your skills throughout your internship.
- Work culture: Unity has a relaxed work culture. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a fun and stimulating environment, both at the studio and outside, or virtually. Learning activities, networking with inspirational people at Unity and social events are organized to enrich your internship experience.
- Empathy, respect and opportunity: Unity is an inclusive workplace where respect and opportunity are guaranteed for all during the career.
About Unity Technologies
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
