UX Data Science Intern

Overview

If you're a creative person who loves a challenge, this could be the opportunity for you. Solve the complex puzzles you’ve been dreaming of as our UX Data Science Intern. If you have a passion for innovation in tech, we want you on our team! Thrive in this crucial role.

Oracle is a technology leader that’s changing how the world does business. We’re looking for an experienced and self-motivated person. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. Come and join us.

Grow your UX Design Career with Oracle Design

Oracle Design is seeking current undergraduate junior-year students and graduating seniors who are looking to enter the exciting world of User Experience (UX) Data Science in Summer 2024. We are a group of 800+ multi-disciplinary creatives from around the globe, dedicated to making the design profession more accessible and inclusive. Come and join our diverse and dynamic team to create brand-new applications that connect, empower, and delight our users. We are excited to work with you early in your career!

As a UX Data Science Design Intern You Will…

As an Oracle Design UX Intern, you will join a cohort of creative young professionals in our Bay Area and Seattle offices. Throughout the 12-week internship program, you will receive guided mentorship and participate in boot-camp style workshops. Through hands-on participation in group projects, you will deepen your knowledge and practice new skills interacting with a variety of design fields including Strategy & Innovation, User Experience Design, User Research, Product Management, Product Development, and more.

We are seeking to grow the data science capabilities with forward-thinking and diverse interns with exceptional technical ability. This is an exciting role that will stretch your knowledge and curiosity, while at the same time is a phenomenal opportunity to learn new skills and work within an unusually hard-working, global community at Oracle.

Upon successful completion of your internship, you’ll have the chance to apply for a full-time, paid position that aligns with your interests and abilities.

The Company

Oracle is the world’s leading provider of business software. With a presence in over 175 countries, we are one of the biggest technology companies on the planet. We use innovative emergent technologies to tackle real-world problems. From advancing energy efficiency to reimagining online commerce, the work we do is not only redefining the world of business, but also helping advance governments, power nonprofits, and giving billions of people tools they need to outpace change.

What You’ll Bring: (Objective Minimum Qualifications)

To be considered for an internship position with Oracle Design, you must possess the Objective Minimum Qualifications below. Please ensure that your application clearly indicates that you meet these qualifications either on your resume and/or by uploading additional documents such as a transcript.

• Current undergraduate junior-year student or graduating senior in Data Science, Data Engineering, Computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related area of study.
• Strong academic achievement.
• Strong interest in technical area of study and AI.
• Available full-time, 40 hours per week during the work week (typically 9am-5pm) from May-August 2024, or June-September 2024
• Attend a university in the US
• Able to obtain work authorization in the US in 2024

About You

• Emerging creative professional with a passion for creating experiences for a diverse community of users.
• Excited to bring your unique voice and perspective to Oracle Design’s creative team.
• Inquisitive and open-minded, collaborative and a phenomenal teammate
• Interested in becoming a fantastic storyteller: passionate about improving your creative techniques to tell a compelling story
• You don’t already know everything, and love to learn; you’re open to consuming quantitative and qualitative data to refine your assumptions.
• Have deep empathy and a passion for understanding people, uncovering their values and unspoken needs, and designing solutions with these values and needs at the heart of it all
• You may have learned your craft through formal training in school or passion projects and hobbies. For most candidates, it is a combination of both.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency with SQL and Python or R
• Fluency with data processing packages (e.g., pandas, tidyverse, dplyr)
• Passion for User Experience (UX) Research and an understanding for why UX is important for business.
• Read in and write files (e.g., .txt, .csv, .json, .parquet, .pkl, .xlsx, etc.) using a programming language
• Wrangle data / clean up datasets. For example, removing outliers for a performance time analysis.
• Able to glean descriptive statistics about a dataset (i.e., the Shape of the Data)
• Able to produce clean, informative visualizations to clearly communicate research insights.
• Able to work with large datasets using SQL, Spark, PySpark, Scala.
• Basic understanding in working in a coding environment and passionate about learning how to use a programming language to work with big data.
• Experience working with time series data (e.g., click history logs, eye tracking logs)
• Front-end web design & development (Nice to have)
• Experience creating/working with Chrome Extension Tools (Nice to have)

Data Scientist Intern responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Work on multiple stages of data science projects, including data pipeline, aggregation, feature engineering, modeling, and visualization.
• Develop models to build solutions to tackle real-world business problems.
• Interact with product and service teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.
• Communicate your analysis findings to product, service, and business managers.
• Takes initiative with understanding purpose of project and how results will impact design and development.
• Asks clarifying questions when talking with collaborators. For example, the ability to operationalize, "Understand how people are using our product."
• Ability to contact others to get access to certain datasets.
• Plan a project with achievement updates so that collaborators agree with respect to 1) the progress of a project and 2) what certain findings are.

What you will learn as a UX Data Scientist Intern:

• You will learn how to analyze and produce insights from very large datasets detailing user behavior in cloud applications.
• You will learn important metrics and KPIs that are used by enterprise companies to evaluate the usability of their products at scale.
• You will learn how to work with a team of other data scientists to provide comprehensive insights that are impactful to Oracle.
• You will learn how the design of your charts can be critical when it comes to providing impact with collaborators.
• Along with your resume, please share your project examples of data science-related work you’re most proud of. Highlight your ability to work with teams, think outside of the box, think strategically, and communicate through a visual medium. These examples can be pulled from school projects, passion projects, or from any other previous work experience.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Oracle Design is dedicated to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture that reflects the opinions and perspectives of many different backgrounds and experiences. As an intern, you will join our global design team and add your unique point of view to our workforce. We’re committed to hiring employees from a wide range of backgrounds not only because diversity is a key driver of innovation, but it ensures we build products that best reflect the needs of our broad customer base. And most importantly, because it’s the right thing to do. Recent studies show that the design industry is in dire need of opening opportunities to young professionals underrepresented in the field, and we’re working hard to correct this imbalance. We’re committed to including, listening, and learning together on this journey.

Interested in joining our team?

Oracle Design is an Equal Opportunity employer and have a strong commitment to the principle of diversity in all areas. We have a bent towards creating success for every employee by appreciating the uniqueness that each person brings to the workplace. Oracle Design strongly encourages applications from people from underrepresented backgrounds, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, veterans, and differently abled candidates. We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Responsibilities

Gain invaluable experience in what it is like to work at a leading global hardware and software systems innovator - Oracle. Your colleagues are industry experts and knowledgeable veterans. Your contributions will enhance real Oracle products and services. By the end of your internship you will be connected to a powerful network of professionals, managers, and executives.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $18.99 to $48.00 per hour; from $39,500 to $99,840 per annum.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance