Product Design Intern (Fully Remote)

About Virtual Internships

We're on an ambitious and challenging mission to provide guaranteed internships to anyone, anytime, anywhere—no one else is doing this at our scale! Regardless of background, major, location, or career field, every student can gain invaluable experience at innovative companies worldwide, significantly enhancing their employability and career readiness. Trusted by universities, governments, foundations, and online education institutions, we’re transforming learners' lives globally.

• $14.3million Series A fundraise announced in September 2022, with investors including Hambro Perks, Sequoia India & Surge, Arsenal Growth, Kaplan, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures
• Ranked 20th out of 13,000 organizations to “Escape To in 2023”Featured as a Top 100 EdTech Startup by HolonIQ in 2021, 2022, and 2023
• Rated as a Top 50 Rising Startup by Tech in Asia in 2022
• Remote-first with 100+ employees across 20+ countries globally
• B2B EdTech product, trusted by 100+ universities, 10,000+ interns, and 14,000+ companies

One of the core values at VI is transparency. Therefore feel free to “try before you apply” by visiting our VI-P Guide, which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and a few other snippets of who we are!

Your Role

As a Product Design Intern within our vibrant 15+ member product and engineering organization, you'll be at the forefront of crafting innovative solutions for our global student intern community.

Under the mentorship of the Head of Product, you will engage in collaborative projects with various teams, gaining insights into customer needs, and delivering products that streamline complex business processes while ensuring an outstanding user experience.

This position will be a stipend-based, full-time, 6-month internship.

What You’ll Be Doing

You'll do everything that a product designer does. Here's everything you will be doing -

• Dive deep into user research - conducting interviews, surveys, and usability testing with interns, companies, and supervisors
• Spend hours mapping user journeys and identifying friction points across our global platform
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that solve real user problems
• Collaborate daily with product managers and engineers to ship features that matter
• Analyze user behavior data to understand what's working and what needs improvement
• Design for multiple stakeholders - students, companies, supervisors, and universities
• Participate in design critiques and iterate based on feedback (lots of feedback!)
• Maintain and evolve our design system to ensure consistency across platforms
• Learn to balance user needs with business goals and technical constraints

Why You'll Love This Role

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Get hands-on experience designing for a real product used by thousands of students worldwide
• Own actual features from research to launch - this isn't just concept work
• Learn our entire design process, including how we balance competing user needs
• Build a portfolio of real product design work that you can showcase to future employers
• Understand how a fast-growing startup makes design decisions at scale
• Develop skills in user research, prototyping, and design systems that are highly valued in the industry
• Join a supportive team that wants you to succeed and grow
• Get detailed feedback on your work, helping you improve rapidly
• See the direct impact of your designs as students land life-changing internships through better user experiences
• See how great products are actually designed, one user interview, one prototype, and one usability test at a time
• Most importantly, you'll learn to design for global diversity - creating experiences that work across cultures, languages, and contexts

Who We're Looking For

Technical Skills You'll Need

• You're proficient in Figma for design and prototyping
• You can create user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes that clearly communicate your ideas
• You understand basic design principles - typography, color theory, layout, and accessibility
• You're familiar with design systems and component libraries (or ready to learn fast)
• You can analyze user data and translate insights into design decisions
• You understand responsive design and how to design for multiple screen sizes
• You're ready to learn about our tech stack to understand implementation constraints
• You can present your design thinking clearly to stakeholders across the organization

The Right Mindset

• You get excited about solving complex user problems that span multiple user types
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and changing requirements as we learn more about our users
• You believe great design is invisible - it just works seamlessly for users
• You're ready to handle feedback and iterate repeatedly on your designs
• You have the persistence to dig deep into user problems and find elegant solutions
• You can balance creativity with practical constraints
• You're excited about both the big picture user experience AND the tiny interaction details
• You can manage your time effectively across multiple projects and deadlines
• You're committed to showing up 30-35 hours every week, ready to learn and contribute

You stand out from the crowd if:

• You have experience building EdTech products for global students
• You have worked at a Series A or Series B scaleup

Consider this our wish-list. We know there will be great candidates that don't meet every one of these criteria—if you're passionate about the role and have early-stage startup experience, we'd still love to hear from you.

Virtual Internships Perks and Benefits

• Remote-First: All roles at VI are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere
• Flexible Working Hours: Start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch, or leave later, it's totally up to you.
• Flexible VIer Budget: You’ll receive a flexible budget of $1,000 per year that you can use on but not limited to your work setup, personal wellness, or professional development.
• Post Internship: Explore opportunities internally, or support with references, LinkedIn profile building to help with the next stages of your career journey.

Equality & Diversity

Virtual Internships is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. We ensure all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process.