Design Intern

About us

At Flourish Labs, we’re on a mission to bring accessible, affordable mental health support to everyone who needs it by empowering people to support each other. We believe that peer support is an effective, yet underutilized solution to the mental health crisis. Peer supporters use their own lived experience of mental health challenges to help others.

We are growing the workforce of Certified Peer Supporters by training students in peer support skills, such as active listening, building rapport, strengths, self-care, coping strategies and safety. We’ll offer peer supporter jobs in our peer support network, launching later this year. Students who want support will be able to find Certified Peer Supporters in our network who match their needs, and book support sessions via our digital platform.

What you’ll do in this role

In this role, you’ll work closely with our engineering, product and marketing teams. You’ll have the opportunity to flex your design skills to support multiple projects by creating designs that push the brand forward and help bring students to our platform.

Graphic Design

• Partner with our marketing team to design and create collateral for on-campus events and engagements including but not limited to: flyers, posters, stickers, clothing/hats, bags and mugs. 

• Create on-brand designs that resonate with our Gen Z audience. 

• Ensure designs are completed quickly to allow for feedback and iteration cycles.

• Work with vendors to gather quotes and assist with the proofing process

• Support the social media lead with various design assignments as needed, e.g. for static Instagram posts

Product Design

• Partner with our product team to transform business and customer requirements into effective, efficient, and elegant product design solutions.

• Work with the team to develop design concepts that enhance and optimize existing features, and create new product features to meet user needs.

• Deliver simple, elegant and innovative designs expressed in sketches, diagrams, prototypes and final design executions.

• Validate the usability and efficacy of your concepts and design solutions with users and engineering team

• Participate in weekly product team meetings and ad hoc meetings. 

Key qualifications

• Student majoring in design, visual design, advertising, marketing, graphic design, product design, or design studies.

• Design portfolio that highlights the work you’ve done.

• Experiencing using Figma (or a similar design strategy software)

• Passion for mental health and using technology to solve big problems.

• Creative thinker. Willing to try different approaches, learn and iterate quickly, and open to feedback.

• Thrive in uncertainty, able to adapt to changing priorities of an early startup environment

• Detail oriented and self organized. 

• Ability to work independently with the confidence to ask for help.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

How we work

We are an early stage startup and a global, distributed, remote-first company. This means you can work from anywhere with a good internet connection, and we occasionally meet up face to face for onsite gatherings. We care about impact, not hours worked. Our environment is best suited to people who want to shape their own role rather than be prescribed exactly what to do, who are willing to roll their sleeves up to get things done, even if it’s not part of their job description. We’re looking for people who think creatively, try different approaches, learn and iterate quickly based on data, who love working in a cross-functional team. If this sounds exciting (and a little scary!), we’d love to hear from you.

Diversity, equity & inclusion at Flourish Labs

At Flourish Labs we embrace and support differences because it is the right thing to do, makes us a more fun and effective team, and helps us build better products for our users, who are equally diverse. We are building our products and our company with people who have lived experience of mental health challenges, themselves and/or as a caregiver to others. We are committed to hiring talent with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and enabling them to flourish at our company by ensuring everyone has a voice and opportunity to succeed. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities. We consider part time and job sharing arrangements for any role, just ask.

Equal opportunity statement:

We are an equal opportunity employer. If we hire you, it will be based solely on your merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Supporting you to do your best work

We’re a peer support company, so support is at our core. We support our team members in the best way we can through competitive benefits and flexible working practices.

All Flourish Labs employees and interns enjoy the following benefits:

• Flexible work location. You can work from anywhere with a good internet connection

• Flexible work time & vacation. We care about you getting the work done, not when you do it. You decide when you need time off. We offer unlimited personal time off, and we’ll strongly encourage you to take at least 5 days PTO per quarter. And you’ll get your birthday off! We honor 14 paid public holidays a year, and we close between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

• Attractive salary.

• Growth opportunities via your role and professional development/training.