Product Design Intern at Skydio in San Mateo, CA

Summary: Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. As a Product Design Intern, you will help improve interfaces across Cloud and Mobile platforms, working closely with your Product Design mentor on real projects that impact users today. Responsibilities: - Meet with customers to deeply understand their needs and use cases - Work with Product Managers and Engineers to iterate on key design improvements for those customers - Deliver pixel-perfect Figma designs or real engineered interactive prototypes to demonstrate your ideas - Contribute to Skydio’s design system with new components and styles - Conduct user testing and evaluations to gather critical feedback Required Qualifications: - A portfolio of design work that covers your specific contributions to end-to-end UX projects - Working towards a bachelors, masters, or PhD in: human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, human factors, computer science, or related field of study - Solid understanding of design concepts such as: web and mobile UX patterns, design systems, low fidelity and high fidelity prototyping, heuristic evaluations, user testing - Excitement and enthusiasm for finding creative ways to solve difficult problems under constraints - Technical skills in frontend development and willingness to get hands-on with code Preferred Qualifications: - Bonus points for specific work in: Physical Security, Fleet Management; Avionics; Photo management; Geospatial Analysis or Mapping; 3D Web Tools; Video Review Workflows; Remote Hardware Sensing (cameras, robotics, aviation) Required Skills: Figma, UX design, Prototyping Important Skills: Frontend development, User testing Nice-to-Have Skills: Human-computer interaction, Cognitive psychology, Human factors, Design systems