Product Design Intern (2027)
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What you'll do
- Own the design from start to finish for impactful features that ship quickly
- Collaborate with product, research, marketing, and other functions to identify user and business needs
- Work closely with Engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation
- Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for your features
- Participate in weekly design critiques
What they're looking for
- A demonstrated baseline in visual design and/or interaction design skills
- Experience shipping projects with good product strategy and visual design
- An ability to express ideas through prototyping and code
- An eagerness to learn and a demonstrated self-starting initiative
Nice to have
- An interest in design tools and design systems
- An aptitude or interest in systems thinking and information architecture
- Knowledge of the building blocks of a design tool or similar aspects of other creative tools
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Full description from employer
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
As a Product Design intern at Figma, you will own real impactful projects and take them from ideation to execution. You will work fluidly and collaboratively with your mentor, the rest of the design team, as well as other functions. Because of this, you should have a broad set of design skills and be motivated to learn. Over the course of the summer, you’ll have the opportunity to ship meaningful contributions to both the company and the product.
This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York hub.
What you'll do at Figma:
- Own the design from start to finish for impactful features that ship quickly
- Collaborate with product, research, marketing, and other functions to identify user and business needs
- Work closely with Engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation
- Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for your features
- Participate in weekly design critiques
Launches from early career designers on our team:
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- A demonstrated baseline in visual design and/or interaction design skills
- Experience shipping projects with good product strategy and visual design
- An ability to express ideas through prototyping and code
- An eagerness to learn and a demonstrated self-starting initiative
While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- An interest in design tools and design systems
- An aptitude or interest in systems thinking and information architecture
- Knowledge of the building blocks of a design tool or similar aspects of other creative tools
A few resources to help you get ready and learn more about the Figma design team:
- Breaking In: A guide to landing your first product design role
- Build a portfolio that tells your story | Figma for Edu Early Career Week
- Portfolios 101 | Figma for Edu Early Career Week
- Craft and beauty: The ROI of marrying form and function
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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Pay Transparency Disclosure
This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
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