Visual Design Intern- Paytm

Paytm; Dadri; On-site; INR 112,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dedicated mentor

Portfolio reviews

Job summary

Paytm seeks a Visual Design Intern to craft the brand’s visual language across product surfaces. You’ll work on illustration, iconography, and visual systems with a dedicated mentor.

Translate emotional tones—trust, playfulness, urgency—into visuals, and collaborate with product designers and managers to keep visuals consistent and scalable.

Qualifications

• Final-year student pursuing a degree in Design or related field.
• Strong visual and illustration fundamentals.
• Ability to source references and synthesize them into an original direction.
• Experience with design/illustration tools; familiarity with AI tools.
• Portfolio showing references, explorations, and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Source references and create an original visual direction.
• Translate product tone into visuals.
• Collaborate with designers to ensure brand consistency.
• Contribute to and extend Paytm’s visual systems for product surfaces.
• Use AI tools in your craft while maintaining a distinct point of view.
• Take feedback and iterate to improve visuals.

Skills

Strong visual fundamentals

Sourcing references

Brand translation across tones

AI tools familiarity

Motion & graphics sensibility

Curiosity/open to feedback

Portfolio development

Education

Final-year student in Design/Visual Communication/Illustration/Animation

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

About Paytm

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Visual Design Intern who can bring craft, taste, and a strong sense of direction to Paytm’s visual language — someone who thinks beyond a single polished screen and can translate everyday, utility-first product moments into visuals that feel considered and unmistakably Paytm. You’ll work on illustration, iconography, and visual systems for product surfaces used at scale — sourcing references, building a point of view, and executing that direction with craft, alongside designers and stakeholders across the team. Throughout the internship, you’ll have a dedicated design mentor, participate in design critiques, and learn how a considered visual direction gets built, defended, and scaled across a product.

What You’ll Do

• Source and synthesize references into an original, defensible visual direction — not just execute a given style.
• Translate a product’s emotional tone — trust, playfulness, urgency, calm — into visuals that serve that specific context.
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, and the design team to keep visual language consistent with the brand.
• Contribute to and help extend Paytm’s evolving visual systems (illustration, iconography, motion) for use across products.
• Use AI tools as part of your craft process, while maintaining a distinct, non-generic point of view.
• Take feedback, iterate fast, and improve visual quality with every round.

What We’re Looking For

• Final-year student pursuing a degree in Design, Visual Communication, Illustration, Animation, or a related field.
• Strong visual and illustration fundamentals — composition, form, colour, and craft.
• Ability to source references thoughtfully and synthesize them into an original direction, not just imitate them.
• An eye for translating brand identity across different tones and contexts — playful, premium, utilitarian, and beyond.
• Hands-on experience with design/illustration tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar); familiarity with AI tools as part of the workflow.
• Motion & graphics sensibility is a strong plus.
• Curiosity, ownership, and openness to feedback.
• A portfolio with strong visual range and process — show us your references, explorations, and decisions, not just polished final visuals.

Why Join Us?

• Design for real impact
  Your visuals will live inside a product used at scale.
• Learn from experienced designers
  Get dedicated mentorship, regular critiques, and feedback.
• Grow through collaboration
  Work closely with cross-functional teams and learn through continuous 360° feedback.
• Be part of the team
  Build strong relationships with peers and mentors through ownership, craft and contribution.