Product Designer Intern

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Product Design Intern who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ and. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement. Also someone who’s excited to learn, experiment, and help shape the future of Sezzle’s web and mobile experiences. If you love crafting intuitive interfaces, have an eye for motion and micro-interactions, and are curious about where AI meets design, you’ll fit right in. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to ship thoughtful, user-centric work that makes people’s lives easier.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with product managers and engineers to design user-friendly features across Sezzle’s platforms
• Create wireframes, visual designs, prototypes, and interaction flows that balance clarity, aesthetics, and usability
• Contribute to our design system by building and documenting reusable components in Figma
• Ensure consistency of design & UI patterns, language, and branding elements across all product components
• Participate in user research and testing to inform and refine your work
• Present design work and rationale to design team and stakeholders while gathering feedback to iterate and polish your solutions
• Explore illustration, motion design, and micro-interactions to elevate the experience

What We Look For:

• Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or a related field
• Some hands-on experience in UI/UX or product design for digital products (through internships, coursework, freelance, or personal projects)
• Strong communication skills in English
• Proficiency in Figma for interface design and prototyping
• Demonstrated experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required; candidates must be comfortable leveraging AI to enhance productivity, research, and communication.
• Familiarity with modern product design trends and basic design principles
  
  • Experience: Some prior exposure to designing for web or mobile (internships, freelance, coursework, or personal projects count)
  • Craft & Tools: Strong Figma skills for interface design and prototyping; curiosity about testing and validating with users
  • User Focus: Passion for building accessible, inclusive experiences
  • Design Systems: Understanding of scalable UI systems, from color and typography tokens to components
  • Component Management: Experience creating and updating UI components in Figma
  • Adaptability: Comfortable juggling multiple projects and deadline while maintaining quality
  • Collaboration: Clear communicator and team player who’s open to feedback
  • Technical Bonus: Familiarity with HTML/CSS/React is a plus, not a requirement
• Portfolio Requirements:
  • Please include a link to an online portfolio or PDF that showcases:
    • 3-4 of your best digital design projects
    • Clear explanation of problem and project requirements
    • Your design process

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with animation or motion tools (After Effects, Lottie, Rive)
• Interest in designing interactive components and motion-enhanced micro-interactions
• Curiosity about how AI can support and accelerate the design process

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Compensation: The salary for the Product Design Intern is $800 USD monthly gross as an independent contractor. 

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