UX Intern

This internship is ideal for a student or recent graduate who wants hands-on experience in an enterprise product environment, working on real features used by real clients.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with UX designers to understand business goals, user needs, and product requirements.
• Contribute to user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups for new and existing features.
• Support user research activities (planning sessions, taking notes, synthesizing findings, and updating artifacts).
• Help create and maintain design system components, patterns, and documentation to ensure consistency across the product.
• Produce clear interaction specs and handoff documentation for engineers.
• Participate in design critiques, incorporating feedback to refine your work.
• Assist with prototyping (low- and high-fidelity) to validate concepts with stakeholders and users.
• Collaborate with UX writers and content strategists to ensure clear, concise, and consistent in-product copy.
• Conduct competitive and comparative analyses to inform design decisions.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, documenting what worked, what didn’t, and why.

What We’re Looking For

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, UX Design, Product Design, Graphic Design, Cognitive Science, or a related field.
• A portfolio (school projects, personal projects, or prior internships) that demonstrates:
  • Clear problem framing and understanding of user needs.
  • Thoughtful interaction design and information architecture.
  • Ability to explore multiple concepts and articulate design rationale.
  • Concrete examples of using AI tools to make UX designers more efficient (e.g., AI-assisted wireframing, content generation, research synthesis, or design QA) with a clear before/after story.
  • At least one example of designing AI into a software application (e.g., prompts, copilots, recommendations, or automation flows), showing how you handled trust, transparency, and user control. We’re looking for actual screens and flows in your portfolio, not just a written description.
• Deep familiarity with Figma for visual design, interaction design, and prototyping (we use Figma across the UX team).
• Basic understanding of user-centered design, usability principles, and accessibility best practices.
• Strong communication skills and comfort presenting your work and reasoning.
• Ability to take direction, respond well to feedback, and iterate quickly.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage time across multiple tasks.

Nice to Have

• Experience (coursework or projects) related to enterprise, fintech, or data-heavy products.
• Exposure to design systems and component-based design.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and how designs are implemented.
• Experience with Figma prototyping for interaction design and usability validation.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and inclusive design principles.

Please submit:

• Your resume
• A link to your portfolio (website or PDF)
• A brief note describing:
  • Why you’re interested in UX design
  • Why you’d like to intern with Clearwater Analytics / CWAN
  • One project you’re most proud of and why

• Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.