Product Design Intern (2027) . Figma

Design Better Podcast; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Travel reimbursement

Job summary

Figma is offering a Full-time Early Career Product Design internship based in San Francisco or New York. You’ll own design from ideation to execution, collaborating with product, research, and engineering teams to ship impactful features.

We welcome candidates with a baseline in visual or interaction design and a passion to learn. The role emphasizes prototyping, design systems awareness, and hands-on contribution to real products.

Qualifications

• Baseline in visual design and/or interaction design skills.
• Experience shipping projects with good product strategy and visual design.
• Ability to express ideas through prototyping and code.
• Eagerness to learn and a demonstrated self-starting initiative.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Visual design

Interaction design

Prototyping

Collaboration

Self-starting

Tools

Figma

Job description

Full-time Early Career (0-2 years) Product Design

About this role

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. 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.

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

• Figma Grid
• Billing Experience
• Figma Draw

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 & beauty: The ROI of marrying form and function

Pay Transparency Disclosure

Internship $46-$46 USD

Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement.

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 [e-mail].

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.

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