- Starting Monday, May 13, 2024 through Friday, August 2, 2024 (12 weeks)
- Potential to extend the internship to part-time during the fall/spring academic year based on performance
About Us
Do you care about making a change in healthcare? Join the AppHatchery! We support the creation of simple mobile app ideas through strategy, user research, design, development, and MVP clinical study for clinical researchers at Emory University, Georgia Tech, Morehouse School of Medicine, and UGA. The center's goal is to advance clinical research through the development of mobile apps used by patients and clinicians. More information is available on our website at https://www.apphatchery.org/.
Our work aims to solve niche areas where not much research or private endeavors exist. Some of our past projects have been in: assisting children and parents with managing rare genetic cancer predispositions, patient education for new onset Type 1 Diabetes, Audio Diary research tools, a tool to help clinicians and public health officials tackle Tuberculosis in Georgia, and many more!
Location
This is a hybrid position and requires some onsite presence on Georgia Tech's Atlanta campus depending on responsibilities assigned and deadlines.
Job Summary
As a team member, you understand the whole product creation process with focused skills in one area (research, design, development, and management). You create products from start to finish and own the whole process. Working closely with project managers, researchers, designers, and engineers allows you to impact the product design used by the entire user base. Throughout the entire process, you empathize with the users and remain at the center of the product creation.
The AppHatchery is seeking summer interns to join our team and take a role in one or more of the following domains and potentially learn and support the others:
UX Research
• Design research plans involving a mix of quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Create interview guides, conduct primary interview research, and synthesis research findings
UX Design
• Create low, medium, and high-fidelity designs for current and future mobile application products using industry-standard mobile app design tools (Figma, sketch, miro, or other)
• Translate user research into design requirements
• Explain and communicate design language and decisions to software engineers
UX Engineer
• Develop mobile app features for Android (Kotlin or Flutter) and/or IOS (Swift or flutter)
• Participate in mobile app architecture decisions
• Translate designs and requirements into platform-specific features and functions
Minimum Qualifications
• Currently working towards a Master's Degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Design, or relevant similar masters level program.
Preferred Qualifications
• Previous professional experience in one or more of the role domains.
• Experience working with web or mobile-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Android Studio, XCode, Cross-platform, etc.
• Your designs have been implemented in a production environment.
• Experience in healthcare, medicine, or public health environments or projects.
• You are comfortable in start-up work environments, willing to flex into different business areas, and learn new skills when necessary, such as creating marketing assets or running experiments.
• You thrive on collaborating with others.
• You have experience working closely with other designers to develop content, product teams, or interaction designers to bring it to life in a digital environment and/or marketing teams to strategically position it.
• You are skilled at managing stakeholders and building relationship networks.
Other Information
• Salary range: $25 - $30 hourly rate depending on skill and experience level.
Application Requirements
• Application material (CV or resume) should be sent to Morgan Greenleaf (morgan.greenleaf@emory.edu) and Santiago Arconada Alvarez (santiago.jose.arconada.alvarez@emory.edu). Requests for information may also be directed to Morgan and Santiago. Applications will be considered beginning 3/15/2024, but the search will continue until the positions are filled.
