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Apprentice, Experience

New York, New York, United States

Location: New York City (3 World Trade)
Duration: 8 weeks, full-time (40 hours/week)
Start Date: June 24, 2025
Compensation: $30/hour (undergraduate degree), $50/hour (graduate degree)

Proto is an innovation consultancy that helps companies solve complex business challenges and create new opportunities. Our Experience team bridges the gap between vision and execution, shaping how businesses engage with customers and scale their impact. 

As an Apprentice on the Experience focused on Productization, you’ll play a key role in helping us design and develop proprietary tools and products that enhance and extend the value of our consulting work.

At Proto, we believe the best way to learn is by doing. Our Apprenticeship Program is designed to provide hands-on experience, mentorship, and exposure to real client challenges. This is not a passive internship—you’ll be a contributing member of the team from day one.

Who You Are

You’re a curious, motivated problem solver who thrives in ambiguity. You may be a designer with an interest in strategy, a product thinker with a knack for design, or someone who wants to bridge both worlds. You’ve worked on real projects—whether through freelance work, student initiatives, hackathons, startups, or personal experiments—and are ready to apply that experience in a professional setting.

What You’ll Do

As an Apprentice on the Experience team, you’ll contribute to both product development and client engagements. 

  • Develop New Offerings: Help prototype and refine experimental tools and products that extend Proto’s consulting impact—whether through design, strategy, or product thinking.
  • Support Client Work: Contribute to experience strategy in paid engagements by assisting with research, analysis, design, or prototyping, depending on your strengths.
  • Prototype & Test Solutions: Collaborate with the team to design, build, and iterate on interfaces, workflows, strategic tools, or service concepts—whatever best fits the problem at hand.
  • Engage in Team Initiatives: Participate in Design Minds (our internal experience and design forum) and Proto Tech Club, supporting projects in ways that align with your skills and interests.

This role is intentionally flexible—we’re looking for a motivated, hands-on problem solver who wants to help us create new offerings. Whether you lean more toward design, experience strategy, product management, or a mix, this role is about applying your skills in a real-world setting. Our priority is to hire apprentices who are graduating from an undergrad or graduate program.

What You Bring

  • Real, practical experience in either design or product management—or both. This could be from freelance projects, student-led initiatives, personal experiments, hackathons, startups, or internships.
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools and an experimental mindset toward new technologies.
  • Proficiency in industry-standard tools, e.g., Adobe Creative Suite, Google Suite, Figma, Slack, etc.
  • An ability to work in ambiguity, quickly learning and adapting to new challenges.
  • Based in New York City and available to work full-time (40 hours/week) throughout the program.

Why Proto?

  • A Real Learning Experience: Our Apprenticeship is designed to accelerate your career—not just check a box on your résumé. You’ll be working alongside world-class experts who are invested in your growth.
  • Opportunities for Full-Time Employment: Our goal is to transition Apprentices into Associate-level roles. While we can’t guarantee a full-time offer, we structure our program with this goal in mind.
  • A Culture of Exploration & Collaboration: We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology, building solutions that shape the future of business.

Our Work Environment

Proto is headquartered at 3 World Trade in New York City. Our team has a flexible work-from-office policy, balancing personal work styles with moments of in-person collaboration, client meetings, and team gatherings. Core business hours are 9:30 AM–6:00 PM EST, but we operate in a client-driven, deadline-focused environment where working hours may vary.

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) at Proto

We believe in fostering a just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization, knowing that diverse perspectives lead to more innovative solutions. We actively work to integrate a variety of lived and professional experiences into our approach, ensuring we create a workplace—and world—that works for everyone.

If this role sounds like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and show us how your curiosity, creativity, and ambition can help shape the future of experience at Proto.

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