As a Product Design Intern at Dropbox, you’ll be an essential part of the product development process, working alongside experienced designers, product managers, and engineers to design and iterate on innovative solutions that address user needs.
In partnership with your dedicated mentor and team of professional designers, you will be responsible for decisions that shape the product you work on. You’ll use your full range of skills from product design, interaction design, and visual design to build magical experiences. Throughout the summer, you’ll work with the a cross functional team through product development process to test out your ideas at all levels of fidelity, and learn what details matter at each stage of a sprint cycle.
Please provide us with a personal email address rather than a school email address so that Dropbox can communicate effectively with you.
Responsibilities
Embed directly in one of our product teams, working on a project in close collaboration with other designers, writers, researchers, product managers, and engineers
Employ a systematic process for finding and resolving hidden complexities and edge cases
Produce work that encompasses the distinctive look and feel of Dropbox’s products
Think through user problems, find reasonable solutions, mock them up in detail, and work with engineers to build them.
Participate in team/company initiatives, design critiques, and collaboration sessions
Speak and present compellingly about design to stakeholders
Requirements
Pursuing a Design degree, graduating between December‘24 - Spring’26
Required: Portfolio showcasing at least one project that highlights your product design expertise. Submit with application
Proficient in multi-platform design (mobile, web, desktop)
Demonstrated systems thinking and sound design rationale
Acute understanding of good and bad user experiences
Proficient in composition principles: balance, symmetry, and white space
Bonus: Skills in motion, iconography, UX flows, UI visuals, prototyping, and front-end web development
Strong attention to detail, striving for pixel perfection
Experience with Figma or similar design tools
Total Rewards
The expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) rate for the role is $9,000, subject to change.
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The contract for this job is a Internship contract