About athena: athenahealth is changing the way the healthcare industry works. With our best in breed suite of cloud software products, we've taken healthcare into the modern age empowering medical care providers to get back to what they do best-- treating patients. athena's culture is idealistic, entrepreneurial, and extremely fast paced; a sharp contrast to the culture typically found in medical offices or healthcare service companies. We aspire to be a diverse team of change agents driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for excellence and a desire to make the administrative processes in healthcare delivery run much better.
athena employs around 100 interns in a variety of departments and office locations each summer. We don't believe in "busy work" around here, so our interns are given challenging projects that directly impact the business. Beyond their day-to-day work, interns also attend speaker seminar series’, social and networking events, and give end-of-summer “business impact presentations” to their department’s leadership team to showcase their work.
Check out our Internship Program Video here: https://youtu.be/9G23YgNnKiw
About Experience Design Intern: An associate designer in Collector work closely with a multi-disciplinary agile R&D team to define, design and test product features with the goal of creating valuable and delightful experiences for our users.
Responsibilities:

• Participate in identifying and framing user-centered problems effectively.
• Participate in problem identification and solutioning workshops.
• Create low- to high-fidelity sketches, wireframes, content, and prototypes to communicate concepts and ideas.
• Assist in planning and execution of research experiments and heuristic reviews to evaluate the usefulness and usability of product features.
• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams throughout the agile planning, design and development process to deliver released product that meets design intent.
• Collaborate with your team to ensure product experiences meet UX quality standards for workflow, interaction design and microcopy.

Qualifications:

• Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Business or related disciplines
• Exceptional communication skills
• An understanding of UX ideation and design techniques
• Experience observing users as part of field studies and evaluative testing

• Ability to forge strong working relationships; work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams including product managers and developers
• Ability to switch gears, juggle multiple projects and work within tight deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and to multi-task in a face paced environment, manage several projects simultaneously, meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently as well as part of an extended, cross-functional team

About athena: athenahealth is changing the way the healthcare industry works. With our best in breed suite of cloud software products, we've taken healthcare into the modern age empowering medical care providers to get back to what they do best-- treating patients. athena's culture is idealistic, entrepreneurial, and extremely fast paced; a sharp contrast to the culture typically found in medical offices or healthcare service companies. We aspire to be a diverse team of change agents driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for excellence and a desire to make the administrative processes in healthcare delivery run much better.
athena employs around 100 interns in a variety of departments and office locations each summer. We don't believe in "busy work" around here, so our interns are given challenging projects that directly impact the business. Beyond their day-to-day work, interns also attend speaker seminar series’, social and networking events, and give end-of-summer “business impact presentations” to their department’s leadership team to showcase their work.
Check out our Internship Program Video here: https://youtu.be/9G23YgNnKiw
About Experience Design Intern: An associate designer in Collector work closely with a multi-disciplinary agile R&D team to define, design and test product features with the goal of creating valuable and delightful experiences for our users.
Responsibilities:

• Participate in identifying and framing user-centered problems effectively.
• Participate in problem identification and solutioning workshops.
• Create low- to high-fidelity sketches, wireframes, content, and prototypes to communicate concepts and ideas.
• Assist in planning and execution of research experiments and heuristic reviews to evaluate the usefulness and usability of product features.
• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams throughout the agile planning, design and development process to deliver released product that meets design intent.
• Collaborate with your team to ensure product experiences meet UX quality standards for workflow, interaction design and microcopy.

Qualifications:

• Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Business or related disciplines
• Exceptional communication skills
• An understanding of UX ideation and design techniques
• Experience observing users as part of field studies and evaluative testing

• Ability to forge strong working relationships; work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams including product managers and developers
• Ability to switch gears, juggle multiple projects and work within tight deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and to multi-task in a face paced environment, manage several projects simultaneously, meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently as well as part of an extended, cross-functional team