Remote Product Design Intern – Sports News

The Athletic; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Parental Leave

401 (k)

Short & Long Term Disability

Free Subscription

Competitive Health Care

HSA & FSA

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

The Athletic is offering a 12-week newsroom internship embedded with the Product Design team. This remote internship, with some travel to New York City, runs from June 2027 to August 2027 and aims to develop the industry’s next stars in sports journalism and digital design.

Interns will collaborate with product managers, designers, and researchers to create designs, prototypes, and handoffs to engineers, gaining exposure to the full product development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate students in their junior or senior year; all undergraduates and postgraduates encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers to ideate on design solutions for defined business problems and goals.
• Develop designs and prototypes at various fidelities to communicate ideas and user experiences.
• Work alongside our research team as needed.
• Create high-quality, detailed deliverables to hand off to engineers.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure designs are built to spec and address edge cases.
• Participate in product design team meetings and design critiques.

Skills

Design internship experience

Education

Undergraduate student (junior or senior year)

Tools

Figma

Job description

The Athletic is offering a 12-week newsroom internship embedded with the Product Design team. This remote internship, with some travel to New York City, runs from June 2027 to August 2027 and aims to develop the industry’s next stars in sports journalism and digital design.

Interns will collaborate with product managers, designers, and researchers to create designs, prototypes, and handoffs to engineers, gaining exposure to the full product development lifecycle.