Job Posting
Intern, Front-End Designer
Location: Singapore
Deadline: 2025-12-31
Overview
Koru Partners is a thematically driven alternative investment firm identifying attractive investment opportunities that are backed by macro-holistic themes encompassing forward-looking social, economic, demographic, and technological changes.
We are inspired to be the world’s leading business partner for unique insights, understanding and decision making. It is our mission to understand the challenges facing humanity and to empower people and companies, working to transform such challenges into opportunities through allocation of capital.
We are looking for a Front-End Designer who can commit for at least 3 months in 2025, to work along with both our product and engineering team in building systems that form the foundation of our investment processes.
What You Can Expect
Salary: SGD 1,200 per month
Company Culture:
- Strong emphasis on company core values to guide you in your day-to-day work and life
- Dynamic and fun team who will challenge and support you
- Flexible and transparent work culture
Responsibilities
- Assist the team in creating an efficient design and seamless navigational flow.
- Collaborate with developers to implement intuitive and visually engaging user interface designs.
- Develop wireframes, prototypes, and mockups to effectively communicate design concepts.
- Contribute to the design of user-friendly and aesthetically appealing web pages for our applications.
Essential to Have
- Currently enrolled in a degree program in Graphic Design, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Exposure to at least one front-end framework, such as React, Vue.js, or Angular.
- A portfolio demonstrating experience in web design projects.
- Basic proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
- Fundamental understanding of UI/UX principles.
Ideal Requirements
- Strong understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent.
- Effective problem-solving and communication skills.
- Knowledge of typography, colour theory, and layout design principles.
About You
We are a firm expecting collaborators to be highly aligned with our core values. Therefore, you should be:- Dedicated and Driven. You are a self-starter who is able to work effectively with low levels of supervision or minimum direction while under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You are energetic, resourceful, and a hands-on individual who pursues goals with sense of urgency. You readily cope with changing priorities, take initiative, and able to follow through with assigned tasks.
- Integrity and Ethics. You have a strong, ingrained sense of professional integrity and ethics.
- Entrepreneurial and Effective Team Member. You have the ability to see the commercial angle, while being mindful of associated risks. You have strong leadership qualities and can assume responsibilities, while being a team player within a high-performance group.
- Agile Thinker. You enjoy solving complex problems and able to see the big picture while mapping out the details to achieve your goals. You are creative about providing innovative solutions (new processes, technologies, and approaches).
To Apply
Please kindly prepare the following information:- Resume.
- A portfolio demonstrating experience in web design projects.
- 1-page or less response to “What matters to you the most? And why?” (An email will be sent to you requesting this essay the next working day after the job application is submitted).