Product Design Intern, Homebase

• A strong portfolio that demonstrates product thinking—your process matters as much as your output
• Experience designing user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes
• Articulate design decisions to cross-functional partners
• Self-directed and comfortable navigating ambiguity—you ask good questions and figure things out
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Design, HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field
• Academic or personal project work that shows strong design thinking and a user-first mindset
• Eagerness to learn, receive feedback, and grow quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!

Desirable

• This is a 6-month, full-time, hybrid internship based in our Toronto, San Francisco, or Denver office with mentorship from senior designers
• This isn't an "observe and assist" internship. You'll own real projects, work end-to-end across research to ship products, and leave with work you're proud to put in your portfolio
• As a Product Design Intern, you'll help shape the experience of tools used by over 2.5 million workers every day. You'll partner directly with product managers and engineers to define, design, and deliver solutions that make hourly work radically easier—on both mobile and web
• Work end-to-end on real product problems, from research and scoping to prototypes, and final designs
• Translate user needs and business goals into clear, intuitive experiences across iOS, Android, and web
• Prototype quickly and iteratively, using feedback from users and stakeholders to sharpen your decisions
• Get your work in front of real users—and ship it to production
• Conduct user research to identify pain points and unmet needs among our small business and hourly worker audiences
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative signals to inform design decisions
• Shadow research calls and observe how customers use our product to build genuine product intuition
• Contribute to Homebase's design system to help the team ship higher-quality work, faster
• Bring visual polish and attention to detail to every surface you touch
• Help maintain consistency across mobile and web platforms
• Partner closely with engineers to bring designs to life from spec through implementation
• Participate in design crits, stand-ups, and collaborative working sessions as a full member of the team
• Give and receive feedback with clarity, generosity, and a genuine desire to improve
• Use AI tools (Figma MCP, Claude, Cursor, V0, or similar) to move faster, explore ideas more broadly, and reduce friction in your workflow
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve the quality or speed of design output

• Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Megha K
• Portfolio Review with the Hiring Manager, Jan S
• Participate in a Design Challenge
• Background Check + Offer Stage
• Welcome to the team, Homie