Product Design Intern, Philo
$27/hr
Live TV streaming service
Job no longer available
Live TV streaming service
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$27/hr
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Philo is seeking a creative and detail-oriented intern to join our Product Design team
- Enrolled in/or completed a degree program related to product design, interaction design, or a similar field
- Strong portfolio demonstrating a good balance of visual and interaction design skills, with a deep-seated curiosity for understanding users
- Knowledge of design fundamentals and how they contribute to a larger design system
- Experience in taking flat designs and creating prototypes
- Understanding of how designing one component affects the entire product experience
- Familiarity with front-end development or ability to articulate how designs function through the lens of development tools (preferred, but not required)
What the job involves
- As an intern, you will work closely with our product team to design, conduct, and synthesize user research activities, as well as contribute to the design of flows and screens that provide simple and powerful ways for users to find, watch, and share television content
- In this role, you will collaborate with a diverse team of experienced designers, engineers, data scientists, and product managers to enhance your skills and learn new methodologies for identifying and solving complex problems
- Under the guidance of a design mentor, you will be actively involved in the end-to-end design process, contributing to strategic discussions, ideating solutions, and creating engineering-ready designs using Figma
- Under guided supervision you will demonstrate product design concepts, from shaping ideas to shipping high-quality experiences across web, desktop, and mobile platforms, using iterative design methods
- You will inform design decisions and identify opportunities to create intuitive, human-centered solutions that impact our end users by communicating your ideas through user flows, mock-ups and prototypes by communicating your ideas through user flows, mock-ups, and prototypes
- Develop and deliver concrete design solutions that will be put into action, driving Philo's growth and success
- Internship duration: 10 weeks
- Direct mentorship from the Staff Growth Designer
Our take
Streaming services offer cheaper options than cable TV packages, but prices are beginning to rise. This is partly due to packages beginning to bundle costly sports and other media packages that viewers do not necessarily want.
Philo offers a streaming service that aims to provide a streamlined selection of channels as an affordable, yet comprehensive, viewing option. The streamlined and high-quality channel offerings are available to viewers at $30 per month, a price significantly lower than standard cable subscriptions, with the base option including around 60 live channels and over 75,000 on-demand offerings.
Philo stands out through features like a co-viewing service that lets up to three people watch the same program together, enhanced cloud DVR functionality, and expanded compatibility with smart TVs and popular streaming devices such as Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV. These updates demonstrate Philo's continued focus on accessibility, user experience, and cost-effective entertainment.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2020
$50m
SERIES D
Jul 2018
$41.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.7m
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew McCollum
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard before co-founding Facebook. Joined Philo in 2014 and has acted as CEO since.
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