UX Engineer - Internship

Kempen & Co; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 13,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic UX Design Engineer intern to join Van Lanschot Kempen's Design & Research team. You will help shape and scale our design system by turning UX patterns into reusable, accessible components used by designers and developers.

You will collaborate with designers, researchers and front-end teams on client-facing products, building UI components in Figma and contributing to documentation, usability testing, and front-end pattern development.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in the third or fourth year of a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX design, interaction design, (front-end) development, industrial design, or related field.
• Strong understanding of UX principles and experience with Figma.
• Experience with HTML, CSS and basic JavaScript.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and take direction from senior designers and developers.
• Proven interest and hands-on experience in AI tools to accelerate or improve the design and/or front-end process.
• A portfolio and/or GitHub/CodePen highlighting design work and/or front-end experiments.
• You are people-minded and eager to learn.
• Availability between 32 to 40 hours per week for at least 5 months.
• Good mastery of English, both oral and written.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the UX team to design and develop reusable UI components and patterns in Figma.
• Create and maintain design documentation and specifications for the design system.
• Assist in usability testing and user feedback sessions to validate components and patterns.
• Keep up to date with design-system and front-end trends, including AI-powered tools.

Skills

UX principles

English proficiency

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Time management

AI tools in design

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX design or related field

Tools

Figma

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

GitHub/CodePen

Job description

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic intern to join our Design & Research team as a User Experience (UX) Design Engineer. In this role, you help shape and scale our design system: turning UX patterns into reusable, accessible components that work for both designers and developers. You will work closely with designers, researchers and front-end teams on real client-facing products.

You also have the following tasks:

• Collaborating with the UX team to design and develop reusable UI components and patterns in Figma;
• Creating and maintaining design documentation and specifications for our design system;
• Assisting in usability testing and user feedback sessions to validate components and patterns;
• Keeping up to date with the latest design, design-system and front-end trends, including AI-powered tools.

Your talents

Creative, structured and technically curious. You enjoy switching between design and front-end and like to make things consistent, clear and reusable. You are result-oriented and have a hands-on mentality.

In addition:

• Currently enrolled in the third or fourth year of a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in UX design, interaction design, (front-end) development, industrial design, or a related field;
• Strong understanding of UX principles and experience with Figma;
• Experience with HTML, CSS and basic JavaScript;
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and time management skills;
• Ability to work collaboratively and take direction from senior designers and developers;
• Proven interest, and hands-on experience, in AI tools to accelerate or improve the design and/or front-end process;
• A portfolio and/or GitHub/CodePen highlighting your design work and/or front-end experiments and thought process;
• You are people minded and eager to learn;
• You are available between 32 to 40 hours per week for at least 5 months;
• You have good mastery of English, both oral and written.

Move ahead at Van Lanschot Kempen

Investing in a more future-oriented, sustainable, and data-driven way with various clients. Both nationally and internationally. With almost 300 years of experience, we make this ambition a reality at Van Lanschot Kempen. We do this with some 2,000 colleagues in various fields of expertise.

The Digital Innovation & Analytics (DIA) department is a start-up-like environment within Van Lanschot Kempen. This means a work environment that offers both the energetic and ambitious character of a start-up and a large company's solid benefits. Digital Innovation & Analytics was founded to help the organisation with its continuous digital and AI (Artificial Intelligence) transformation.

Within DIA, the Design & Research team delivers personal and valuable experiences to our users by providing guidelines for great UX/UI solutions for our digital products through user research, design, testing, workshops and UX audit.

An organisation's degree of innovation and agility also depends on the diversity of its workforce. Our differences make us stronger together. We promote an inclusive work environment where all colleagues feel at home. With us, you can be yourself. And we are proud of that.

Curious about the stories of colleagues and how they experience working at Van Lanschot Kempen? Go to People & Projects and find out more! Or listen to our Podcast series to hear what our colleagues have to say.