The Palantir Design Team is responsible for the human experience of using our software. Our team is growing rapidly, but we're committed to creating a tight-knit team environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth. We work together in realizing 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 be: leading a design sprint for your product team; designing a micro-interaction to make a complex analytical task feel simple; and/or advocating for UX consistency by creating flexible, reusable UI components.
What you'd do
- As a Product Design intern, your responsibilities look similar to a full-time designer, with 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 will work with fellow Designers, Product Managers, Developers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to refine and evolve the quality of Palantir products.
- Interaction and visual design.
- You'll be involved at every stage of design work.
- You'll help define early product concepts, flesh out the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of a feature, and execute on a crisp and effective visual design.
- You should have experience designing and prototyping using tools such as Figma.
- We frequently do informal user research, and value people who can be flexible with research processes and methodologies to achieve the right outcome.
- You'll often visit customer offices to interview and learn from the users we serve.
- You'll pair qualitative methods (e.g. scripted usability tests and contextual inquiry) with quantitative information, like product and usage metrics.
- Deliver and communicate designs in close collaboration.
- We work closely with product and forward deployed engineers to realize our design ideas.
- You'll treat engineers and product managers as partners and collaborate with them to prototype and build out 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 know what's possible with frontend technologies.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to build great relationships with engineers, PMs, and other stakeholders, and convey and debate design rationale.
- High empathy and dedication to the user, striving to understand and empower them.
- An iterative design process.
- You validate your ideas early (with stakeholders and users) and are thoughtful and intentional in seeking and responding to feedback.
- You move fast, listen, and adapt.
- You rapidly incorporate feedback, and prioritize collaboration.
- You are adept at giving and receiving critiques.
- Excitement for solving hard, complex problems.
- You are excited to design for technically complex and data dense interfaces.
- You thrive in an environment where you can jump into deep subject matter expertise to define simple, approachable, yet still powerful product experiences.
- Willingness to learn and make decisions independently, and the ability to ask questions when needed.
What they want
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
- Must be planning on graduating 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.