Intern - Experience Design, User Experience (May 2025 - 16 months)

The deadline to apply for this role is:

The opportunity

May 2025 - August 2026

As an Intern - User Experience Designer, you will be working on projects of various sizes and mainly transformational in scope. If you are inspired by solving problems, passionate about crafting effortless experiences and have good technical skill, then this is the job for you!

Who you’ll work with

The Experience Design and Innovation team is a dynamic team that implements thoughtful creative solutions supporting the progressive needs of Ontario Teachers' investment and benefit professionals and the needs of its members. In this team, you will be working in a highly collaborative environment with a cross functional team - designers, data specialists, developers, testers and business experts.

What you’ll do

• Ideate, design & develop UX solutions for internal and external clients
• Exposure to secure & non-secure web, social & mobile properties
• Utilise the latest development tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
• Explore the latest web technology including Angular, React, jQuery, HTML 5 and CSS 3
• Learn the real-world usage of version control (Subversion, Git), automated build (Maven), and continuous integration (Atlassian Bamboo) systems
• Track your work using our issue tracker (JIRA) and detail your code on our company wiki (Confluence)

What you’ll need

• Pursuing a degree in Design or Information Technology
• Strong design and coding skills
• Professional design & development experience from previous work terms/personal interests (preferred)
• Enrolled in User Experience courses
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with User Experience methodology
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent
• Experience web technologies: Angular, React, JavaScript

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What we’re offering

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development, including lunch and learns

• Student led team building events on a monthly basis

• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! The following documents are required to be uploaded with your application:

• Resume

• Copy of your transcripts

You will also be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

We thank you for applying, however, only those selected for a personal interview will be contacted. Note that candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.

Accommodations are available upon request (peopleandculture@otpp.com) for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.

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