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The team
We’re inviting an intern to join our Design team for three months between June and August this year!
Our Design team work together, solving problems and crafting impactful creative and delightful user experiences for our customers. As a Design Intern you’ll work across a multi disciplinary team of talented communications designers, product designers, user researchers and UX writers.
The role
This internship is for entry level candidates who are committed to a career in design. You’ll work on real projects with interesting problems, and with excellent people that give you the right balance of freedom and support.
You’ll be getting involved in a variety of activities to enhance your understanding across the design disciplines, and get hands on experience of the following:
- Crafting meaningful graphic communications and smart creative for our online and offline marketing
- Designing the experience and user interface for the core FreeAgent application
- Identifying the needs, motivations and behaviours through research with our customers
You'll quickly get up to speed thanks to our impressive onboarding process, and day-to-day you'll be supported by your friendly team, a buddy and your manager.
We'll encourage you to be brave, take risks and fail without fear, because we believe in the value of the journey and in learning by making. It’s fast-paced at times, but it’s always fun!
You
We’re looking for an intern who has a passion for design, is curious, likes to learn and is happy to pitch in with the rest of the team.
In order to qualify for this internship you need to meet the following criteria:
- Be looking to kick start your career in design or gain experience in your summer break.
- Be based within the UK currently and for the duration of the internship
- Be eligible to work in the UK
- Have demonstrable design experience in either commercial placements or personal projects
- Have a desire to experience a multi-disciplinary design team
As part of your application, we’ll ask you to share a portfolio or examples of your work. Check out our design team’s blog covering portfolio tips for some guidance and inspiration.
Our work life
At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!
Work pattern for this role
This is a paid internship for 13 weeks from 3rd June to 30th August 2024.
The internship will be based in our Edinburgh HQ two days per week (Tuesday and Thursday), with the opportunity to work from home on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Perks
The salary for this role is £450 per week.
We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, including (but not limited to!) the following:
- 8 days holiday
- Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Wellness webinars
- Focused learning time and learning budgets
- Catered Friday lunches and other social events
About FreeAgent
FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers, with over 150,000 customers.
Not to blow our own horn … but AccountingWEB even named FreeAgent the top bookkeeping product of 2020 and 2021. In 2022 and 2023 we were also voted ‘Friendliest Software of the Year’ at the ICB LUCA Awards. The list could go on!
From hiring our very first employee back in 2008, we’ve grown to over 250 employees who all share the same vision and values.
FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.
We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.
FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.
We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.
Find out more about what it's like to work here on our Life at FreeAgent blog. If you still have questions, email talent@freeagent.com
