Our quickly growing international team is looking for a Product Design Intern (f/m/x) to manage the user research and give continuity to the design process of ecoligo’s investment platform and integrate it with our software development cycle. This product design internship is a 6-month opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your skills. 

We are looking for well-organized, motivated and empathetic intern who will engage with ecoligo’s Product and Engineering team, as well as our clients (investors) to discover their needs and design delightful solutions that meet their needs and solve our real-world business problems. If you are motivated by our mission to fight climate change and are excited by ecoligo’s unique business model, then this opportunity is for you. 

In this role you will:  

    • Strengthen your knowledge of the product cycle (from ideation to implementation)
        ○ Create functional prototypes with Figma, based on the Jira user stories 
        ○ Create user flows in Figma for Engineers
    • Understanding of time-budget constraints when making design proposals and decisions
        ○ Be involved in the implementation quality assurance as part of your sprint responsibilities and     communicate feedback to Engineers
    • Learn from and apply our design process for product deliverables
        ○ Apply ecoligo’s design process and integrate it with our software development cycle 
        ○ Validate the design solutions from a business and usability perspective with the corresponding stakeholders
        ○ Validate the design solutions from a technical perspective by having feature breakdown meetings with the Product Manager and the Engineering Team before build
    • Perform user research
        ○ Get more experience with planning, conducting, evaluating and documenting the necessary user research (user interviews primarily) for new features and large-scale projects 
        ○ Sharpening your communication skills by sharing research findings and potential solutions with the product team and stakeholders while guiding product prioritization to ensure high-value functionality is developed
        ○ Ensure our research problems are well defined and meaningful findings are provided in a timely fashion 
    • Participate in user workshops
        ○ Creating boards and online materials for the moderation of online and face-to-face workshops in FigJam
        ○ Participate in setting clear research goal and outcome 
        ○ Strengthen your skills of workshop moderation and conduction

• German native speaker or German B2, as you will interact with our customers during user interviews addressing financial matters
• Fluency in English, as it’s our operational language. You will document design decisions and user interview outcomes in English
• Completion (or almost completion) of a bachelor’s degree in Design with a preferred major in Technology, UX/UI, Web products OR you have completed at least 1 UX/UI bootcamp in the last year 
• Understanding how to follow a given design system and component principle knowledge
• Ability to run engaging user interviews and online research 
• Participate in the ideation of design research workshops 
• A record of your research and designs projects (user flows, journey maps, prototypes) through an online portfolio (no PDFs please)
• Solid experience with Figma (our prototyping tool) and FigJam (our workshop and retros tool) is highly desirable
• Familiarity with agile software development processes and working with development teams 
 
You recognize yourself here if:  
• You have an affinity for financial products on the investor side
• You like to take ownership of the interface design, have a hands-on mentality, and push the product forward always collaborating with the Product Manager
• You are a great listener, with an empathetic communication style and a goal to fully understand users and get to the heart of problems
• You are interested in understanding user needs and solving them 
• You are good at multitasking while having clear priorities in a fast-paced environment 
• You are comfortable in receiving and giving open and transparent feedback 
• You want to fight the climate crisis and cannot wait to support ecoligo's unique business mode
• You are eager and ready to learn a lot, embracing every opportunity to grow and expand your knowledge

• Work for the planet: help make a difference as we pioneer the energy transition in emerging markets
• Real ownership and responsibilities with strong opportunities for growth
• Flexible working hours
• Home office friendly
• Remote work possibilities
• Professional development opportunities
• Bright and comfortable workspace at our office in Berlin, Mitte next to Checkpoint Charlie
• An open, diverse, and respectful company culture with a group of kind, international co-workers based in Berlin (Germany), Accra (Ghana), Nairobi (Kenya), San Jose (Costa Rica), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Santiago (Chile) and Manila (Philippines)

Every day at ecoligo we work to fight the climate crisis, bringing solar energy to businesses in countries like Ghana, Kenya, Vietnam, Philippines, Chile, Panama and Costa Rica amongst others through the ecoligo crowdinvesting platform. We own and manage each energy project allowing us to deliver both environmental and economic returns. Our crowdinvestors earn a solid financial return, and our solar clients get an energy provider that is fairer, more affordable and more efficient. So far, ecoligo projects have prevented—or will prevent—over 1,785,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere. And we are just getting started!