UX Design Intern

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. 

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing. 

UX Design Intern

Why We Have This Role

We are looking for a UX Design Intern to join our passionate design team. Our customers expect us to push the boundaries of what enterprise software can be, looking to us to think holistically about creating real-world value through our platform. This internship provides emerging UX designers the opportunity to apply and grow their skills in real-world scenarios, and collaborate with seasoned professionals in an environment where creativity and user-centric thinking thrive.

We believe investing in new UX talent is essential to the future of our industry. Your growth and success are big priorities for our team – we’re committed to providing meaningful mentorship, real project experience, and a supportive environment where you can develop your skills and confidence. By helping to develop the next generation of UX designers, we aim to strengthen not only our team’s capabilities, but also contribute to advancing UX as a whole. Your fresh perspective and ideas will be valued contributions to the ongoing growth of our company and the UX discipline.

How You’ll Find Success

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand user needs and business goals for your assigned projects
• Solve interaction design challenges with support and guidance from senior UX designers
• Create wireframes and prototypes for important user task flows
• Participate in UX team meetings and design reviews
• Apply insights from usability studies to improve designs
• Engage directly with customers to understand their use cases and needs
• Experiment with various interactive prototyping tools and techniques

How You’ll Grow

• Develop skills in translating business goals and requirements into tangible user-facing solutions
• Refine your information architecture, interaction design, and visual design skills through mentorship with our UX team
• Gain insight into how UX teams function within a successful enterprise software company
• Learn UX industry best practices through hands-on application
• Learn to leverage AI design tools and technologies to enhance your workflow, ideation process, and design exploration capabilities
• Work alongside UX researchers to conduct and analyze usability studies
• Create compelling case studies for your professional portfolio

Things You’ll Do

• Design high-fidelity wireframe for multi-step workflows that simplify the customer journey
• Participate in UX team critiques, providing and receiving valuable feedback
• Transform usability study data into concrete UI improvements that enhance the user experience
• Incorporate modern interaction design standards and trends to create intuitive enterprise products
• Experiment with AI-assisted design tools and technologies to streamline your work, generate ideas, and enhance your prototyping capabilities 

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

• Current enrollment in a degree program in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or related field
• A portfolio of work showcasing design process, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools like Figma
• Understanding of user research techniques and experience evaluating user needs
• Collaborative mindset with strong communication skills for presenting your work and telling the story of a design challenge
• Demonstrated creativity in solving design problems with user-friendly solutions
• Genuine passion for improving user experience, and understanding design’s impact on improving peoples’ experiences

What You Should Know About This Team

Our growing UX team designs innovative end-to-end designs and experiences for millions of users globally. As part of the Product, UX, and Engineering organization, you’ll join a collaborative community of UX professionals who define Qualtrics as the Experience Management company. We prioritize mentorship, leadership development, and continuous skill building.

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

• QMentorship Program that pairs you with a Qualtrics mentor for meaningful coaching outside your team
• Diverse QGroup Communities including MOSAIQ, Green Team, Qualtrics Pride, Q&Able, Qualtrics Salute, and Women's Leadership Development

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family & Medical Leave Act, Equal Opportunity Employment, Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

Qualtrics Work Experience - As we look to the future, we believe that our teams are better together. Being together will help us learn more, grow faster and ultimately deliver better results for our customers and Qualtrics. Roles tied to an office location work 4 days per week in the office together and 1 day from home, with a strong spirit of flexibility around taking time for personal, health, and family moments in our work weeks. Our managers work with their teams to create a collaborative, engaged work environment, and arrangement that works for each of our team members.

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