Product Designer New Grad

About the Role

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. 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. We are growing rapidly but remain committed to a tight-knit team environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth. We work together to realize a shared product vision and regularly give feedback and critique to each other.

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

Designers at Palantir develop a deep understanding of the problems our customers face while solving some of the world's most unique challenges. Our mission is to build generalizable and scalable solutions that elegantly handle the complexity of these problem spaces.

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 (e.g., scripted usability tests, contextual inquiry) with quantitative information like 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 engineers and product managers as partners and collaborating 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.
• Designers at Palantir have great autonomy over their work, so a wide skill set is necessary. However, many designers are also passionate experts in one area. You might be the kind of designer who ships code every week or shares detailed user research findings with your team.

What We Value

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build great 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, adapt, and are 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 an environment 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 2027.
• Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
• 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.