Job Description
- Develop an innovative feature to help users find people in new ways.
- Devise a product solution from A to Z, starting with user problems.
- Translate a product hypothesis into a tangible feature.
- Test features using user interviews, online surveys, usability tests, and market tests.
- Collaborate with product and design teams to create a product brief.
- Follow up the project until delivery and monitor results.
- Deliver a strategic/product hypothesis and a Proof of Concept.
- Provide design documentation (wireframes, mock-ups, flowcharts).
- Present lessons learned and a working prototype demo to the team.
- Opportunity to build for an app with millions of users worldwide.
- Work in an international, multidisciplinary team.
- Make an impact with state-of-the-art mobile and backend technologies.
- Experience the entire product development process from idea to live test.
- Access to real methodologies like user interviews, surveys, and usability testing.
Tinder's mission is to bring people together and create meaningful relationships. For over 10 years, Tinder has been the place to meet new people. The new generations of daters think differently about relationships and are looking for more and new ways to connect and share experiences today.
Our team in Ghent focuses on these New Experiences: we conceive, test, and build innovative features that enable new forms of discovery on top of the existing Tinder experience. During this internship, you will contribute to an experiment that makes this vision tangible.
The assignment
Develop an innovative feature that helps users find people in a new way and/or tools that make this possible. For this, you will work together with our multidisciplinary Product, Design, Engineering & Analytics team.
You will devise a product solution from A to Z. You start with user problems, formulate a product hypothesis that addresses the user problems, and translate this hypothesis into a feature. You test this using user interviews, online surveys with users, surveys with people in the target group who are not yet users, usability tests, market tests… Afterwards, you work together with our product & design team to arrive at a product brief that the engineering team can work with. You follow up the project until delivery and then monitor the results.
During an intake interview, we will jointly determine the precise scope of the assignment, tailored to your technical background and interests.
Expected deliverables
- Strategic/product hypothesis
- Proof of Concept of the feature (specification of the feature)
- Documentation of the design (wireframes, mock-ups, flowcharts)
- Final presentation to the team with lessons learned and eventual demo of a working prototype
Working method
- You work in a multidisciplinary team with product, design, engineering, and analytics.
- Agile approach: weekly check-ins, demos, and quick feedback.
- Access to real methodologies we use daily: user interviews, surveys, usability testing.
What you will learn
- Building for an app with millions of users worldwide.
- Working in an international, multidisciplinary team.
- Making an impact with state-of-the-art mobile & backend technologies.
- Going through the entire process: from idea to prototype to live test.
