UX Design Apprenticeship: Learn, Create, Impact

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Google offers a User Experience (UX) Design Apprenticeship, a Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Program that spans 18 months. Apprentices engage in on-the-job training, related technical instruction, and career development workshops to gain durable UX skills and earn a national credential on completion.

The program emphasizes solving user needs, collaborating with product management, software engineering, and data science teams, and applying UX best practices across projects.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED equivalent, or practical experience.
• Not currently enrolled in or completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a design-related field.
• Less than 1 year of UX design experience; portfolios will not be collected or reviewed.

Responsibilities

• Empathize, define, and ideate UX solutions using best practices.
• Apply learnings to real projects: empathizing with users, defining pain points, creating wireframes to prototypes, and testing designs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align user and business needs and communicate designs effectively.
• Practice responsible, effective, and innovative use of AI.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Customer service

Critical thinking

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Google Workspace

Sketch

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Google offers a User Experience (UX) Design Apprenticeship, a Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Program that spans 18 months. Apprentices engage in on-the-job training, related technical instruction, and career development workshops to gain durable UX skills and earn a national credential on completion.

The program emphasizes solving user needs, collaborating with product management, software engineering, and data science teams, and applying UX best practices across projects.