APPLICATION PERIOD STARTS 5TH OF DECEMBER 2022 (5.12.2022)

Are you an enthusiastic UX, service, or visual designer who’s looking for a place to put your digital design skills to good use and learn new skills? We’re looking to hire design trainees to work as members of our digital product creation teams. Together, you’ll be designing and implementing fluent user experiences and desirable services, and validating designs as early as possible. 

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for potential, not ready-made experts. Therefore, we don’t expect you to know everything when joining us. However, we do call for eagerness and the ability to learn new things and work in a team.

As a design trainee you:

• Have some previous experience with designing for the digital domain. Work experience is great, but school and hobby projects are also good references.
• Have a strong interest and ability to solve problems and create designs for digital services.
• Are comfortable choosing your design tools depending on the context, whether it’s pen and paper, Figma, or something else.
• Are able to communicate and validate your design decisions.
• Make it through the day in English and/or Finnish. The working language in all of our projects is one or the other.
• Are located in or able to move to the Helsinki capital area. In addition, you must have a valid working permit in Finland beforehand. Unfortunately, Reaktor is currently not able to provide relocation assistance for trainees.

What we offer

• Meaningful projects and learning experiences. You’ll be spending your trainee period with one of our teams solving real-life problems working with our leading experts, building solutions that address actual business or societal challenges. If you’re wondering what project work is like, let Anna, our previous summer designer, offer some insight on that.
• A passionate community of experts as your colleagues. As a Reaktorian, you’ll have talented and experienced colleagues around you, ready to help you whenever you need it. 
• A named mentor with whom you can discuss and reflect on learning.
• A workplace where you can feel at home. We’re not looking to hire your work-self, but the person you are as a whole. At Reaktor, we let you be the same person at work as at home.
• A summer that is not all about work. We Reaktorians take our work seriously, but we also like to have fun. You’ll find a nice balance that includes regular team days and doing non-work-related activities together. 

How to apply

We’re excited that you’re planning to apply! Send us your application, CV, and a pre-assignment by January 18, 2023 using the form below.

Here’s a checklist you can follow to ensure you’ve sent us all the relevant materials. You’re all good if your application includes:

1. A cover letter
   Tell us about yourself and why you would like to work at Reaktor. There’s no need to be formal — we appreciate seeing your personality through the letter.
2. Your solution to our pre-assignment
   We’d like it to give us a glimpse of who you are as a designer and understand the thinking behind your work. Choose the assignment that fits your profile the best:

• UX design
• Visual design
• Service design

What happens after you hit “Apply”

Finally, here is what to expect once you submit your application:

🕵️  We’ll go through all the applications once a week. Please note that we will go through individual applications once, so make sure you include the solution for the pre-assignment when submitting your documents. We respond to all the applicants individually, so it might take a little while before we get to your application, but you’ll definitely hear from us by the end of February at the latest.

✉️  After reviewing your application, if we think that you’d be a good fit for Reaktor, we’ll invite you to an interview. If we feel like this is not yet a good time to start our journey together, we’ll let you know the reasons behind our decision.

👋 Our interview process includes two rounds with your potential future team members. You can read our previous trainees’ comments about the interviews on our blog. 

📅 First-round interviews are carried out in January-February.

Want to know more?

If you’d like to know more about what it’s like to be a trainee at Reaktor, you can turn to the most reliable source there is: our previous trainee employees. Six of them are sharing their experiences on our blog:

• Anna and Joona worked with us last summer, and now they’re talking about their non-existing typical workday 
• Mira and Minna, two of our 2018 summer employees, share their tips on landing a junior job with us
• “I was expecting to be ‘just’ a coder” – Riku and Samuli’s summer in the Forum Virium Helsinki project

Have a look at our tips for Making the most out of design assignments in recruitment as well!

Have a question? Check out our frequently asked questions and answers. 

Have a look at our tips for Making the most out of design assignments in recruitment as well!

Have a question? Check out our frequently asked questions and answers.