Product Design Intern

About the team

The Product Design team builds intuitive digital experiences that help customers reach their goals, including simplifying workflows and making complex information easier to understand. The team works with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content designers to balance customer needs, business goals, accessibility, and technical constraints. As a Zillow Product Design Intern, you will contribute to a scoped design project with guidance from experienced designers, taking part in the full process from understanding a customer problem to exploring, prototyping, and refining a solution.

About the role

Interns at Zillow do meaningful work that contributes to the business from day one. The nine-week summer internship runs June through August and gives students the chance to bring their ideas and perspectives to real projects alongside Zillow teams.

Interns build hands-on experience, connect with mentors and leaders, and take part in learning and community activities with their intern cohort. Internships for 2027 are based in Seattle and follow a hybrid schedule, with interns generally working together in person Tuesday through Thursday. Eligible interns receive a stipend to help offset summer housing and relocation costs.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to a scoped design project: With guidance from experienced designers, help define a customer problem, explore solutions, and develop user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and refined interface designs. Present your recommendations, process, and learnings at the end of the internship.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with designers, product managers, engineers, and research or content partners. Learn how teams evaluate ideas, define success criteria, and balance customer needs with technical constraints. Document design intent and support implementation review.
• Simplify workflows and apply design systems: Help make customer tasks easier by improving navigation, interactions, and information clarity. Use established design system components and patterns, keeping accessibility and consistency in mind.
• Practice user-centered design and iteration: Review existing research and customer feedback, support usability testing, and turn findings into design improvements with guidance. Share work in design critiques, explain your thinking, and refine solutions based on feedback.
• Learn to incorporate AI tools into your design work: You will work side by side with experienced designers who use AI tools daily, learning how to use them to your advantage as design tools change.

This role is categorized as a Remote position. Remote employees do not have a permanent corporate office and instead work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

Actual pay will vary depending on experience, performance, and location.

How to apply

Submit your resume and a portfolio with 2-3 examples of your design work, including any access instructions. Class projects, personal projects, and volunteer work are welcome. For each example, describe the problem, your role, your process, and what you learned.