Product Design Intern

Zillow • Seattle, WA

7d • Remote

About The Position

The Product Design Intern will contribute to a scoped design project with guidance from experienced designers, gaining hands-on experience from understanding a customer problem through exploring, prototyping, and refining a solution. The nine-week summer internship runs June through August and provides opportunities to work on real projects, connect with mentors and leaders, and participate in learning and community experiences with the intern cohort. The 2027 internship is based in Seattle and described as remote, with a hybrid schedule in which interns generally work together in person Tuesday through Thursday. Eligible interns will receive a stipend to help offset summer housing and relocation costs.

The intern will collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content designers to balance customer needs, business goals, accessibility, and technical constraints. They will use design system components and patterns, consider accessibility and consistency, review research and customer feedback, support usability testing, and refine solutions based on feedback. They will also learn how to incorporate AI tools into design work while working alongside experienced designers.

Requirements

• Be pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• Provide a portfolio demonstrating foundational UX/UI skills, user-centered problem solving, and design process; coursework, personal projects, and volunteer work are welcome.
• Have a foundational understanding of interaction design, user flows, wireframes, and prototyping.
• Have experience using Figma or a comparable design tool.
• Communicate clearly, collaborate respectfully, ask thoughtful questions, and incorporate feedback from mentors, peers, and cross-functional partners.
• Explain the reasoning behind design work, share progress, and manage scoped tasks with guidance.
• Be willing to explore alternatives, iterate, and learn from feedback.
• Submit a resume and a portfolio with 2–3 examples of design work, including access instructions; describe the problem, role, process, and learnings for each example.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to user interviews or usability testing is helpful but not required.
• Prior professional product design experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a scoped design project by helping define a customer problem, exploring solutions, and developing user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and refined interface designs.
• Present recommendations, process, and learnings at the end of the internship.
• Partner with designers, product managers, engineers, and research or content partners to learn how teams evaluate ideas, define success criteria, and balance customer needs with technical constraints.
• Document design intent and support implementation review.
• Improve navigation, interactions, and information clarity to make customer tasks easier to complete.
• Use established design system components and patterns while considering accessibility and consistency.
• Review existing research and customer feedback, support usability testing, and translate findings into design improvements with guidance.
• Share work in design critiques, explain design thinking, and refine solutions based on feedback.
• Learn to incorporate AI tools into design work.

Benefits

• Eligible interns receive a stipend to help offset summer housing and relocation costs.
• Interns connect with mentors and leaders and participate in learning and community experiences with their intern cohort.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern