Product Design Internship

About the Role

As a Product Design intern, your responsibilities mirror those of a full-time designer, backed by the resources, stability, and mentorship of an established tech company. You'll work on product teams with minimal supervision and own end-to-end execution of real product features. You'll collaborate with fellow Designers, Product Managers, Developers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to refine and elevate the quality of Palantir products.

Core Responsibilities

• Interaction and visual design: You'll be involved at every stage of design work, from defining early product concepts to fleshing out high-level workflows and micro-interactions, and executing crisp, effective visual designs. Experience designing and prototyping with tools like Figma is required.
• User research: We frequently conduct informal user research and value flexibility in research processes and methodologies. You'll often visit customer offices to interview and learn from users, pairing qualitative methods like scripted usability tests and contextual inquiry with quantitative data such as product and usage metrics.
• Deliver and communicate designs in close collaboration: You'll work closely with product and forward deployed engineers to realize design ideas, treating them as partners to prototype and build products.
• Awareness of how software interfaces are built: Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript is appreciated. You don't need to be an expert, just fluent enough to collaborate with engineers and understand what's possible with frontend technologies.

What We Value

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with engineers, PMs, and other stakeholders, and to convey and debate design rationale.
• High empathy and dedication to the user, striving to understand and empower them.
• An iterative design process. You validate ideas early with stakeholders and users, are thoughtful in seeking and responding to feedback, move fast, listen, and adapt. You're adept at giving and receiving critiques.
• Excitement for solving hard, complex problems. You're excited to design for technically complex and data-dense interfaces, and thrive in environments where you can dive into deep subject matter expertise to define simple, approachable, yet powerful product experiences.
• Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions when needed.

What We Require

• Must be planning to graduate in 2028. This should be your final internship before graduating.
• A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project. If parts of your portfolio are password-protected, please include your portfolio password under 'Additional Questions' when applying.

About Palantir

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Palantir Design Team is responsible for the human experience of using our software. Our team is growing rapidly, but we're committed to a tight-knit environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth. We work together to realize a shared product vision and regularly give feedback and critique.

Designing at Palantir is a varied experience. On a given day, you might lead a design sprint, design a micro-interaction to simplify a complex analytical task, or advocate for UX consistency by creating flexible, reusable UI components.