User Experience Internship

Internship Overview

The Home Depot’s Summer Internship program offers college students an opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands on experience in a corporate environment. During an 11 – week period from May 18 - July 31, 2026, interns will be assigned to a functional team such as Supply Chain, Marketing, e-commerce, Technology, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Pro, Home Services, Human Resources, etc. Interns will learn more about our retail business and our corporate offices while having the opportunity to work on a pre-assigned project that impacts the function they are supporting. Additionally, interns participate in networking and development activities that set them up for success as they build their careers. 

What makes a Great Intern:

• Action Oriented: Intern takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm

• Manages Ambiguity: Intern effectively navigates and thrives in uncertain situations while using sound judgment to make decisions without having the full picture. Is able to move work forward without all the details

• Collaboration: Intern contributes to the group’s efforts and steps forward to help as needed. Seeks input from others

• Nimble Learning: Intern actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder

• Communication: Intern develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audience

• Customer Focus: Intern builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions

• Drives Results: Evaluates information to make logical decisions and achieve results despite potential challenges or setbacks.

Preferred Skills: 

• Excel Proficiency: Using Excel for data entry, analysis, and visualization by creating charts and   applying data validation.

• PowerPoint Proficiency: Using PowerPoint to create and deliver effective presentations.

• UX Understanding: Using user experience (UX) skills to research user needs, develop journey maps, and implements UX design principles for business processes.

• Presentation Abilities: Delivering clear and persuasive presentations to various audiences.

• Research: Researches and collects data to address business questions.

Description of the Major/Subject Area

As a UX Design Intern, you will collaborate with a team that defines and designs user interfaces, systems, and interaction, visual, motion, and voice design patterns.With passion for interaction and visual design, you can help craft end-to-end experiences to enact cutting-edge retail strategies. Design teams include every flavor of UI, UX, visual, motion, illustration, brand, and marketing design roles—as well as design technologists, researchers, writers, and more.

Tasks, responsibilities, and key accountabilities include: 

• Design thoughtful, beautiful, and useful software user interfaces and experiences in a team environment.

• Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings.

• Use business requirements, user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements.

• Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes.

• Work with stakeholders to plan projects for effective delivery while maintaininghigh standards for design.

• Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences.

• Experience with consumer brand experience design and an understanding of storytelling.

• Visual design expertisedemonstrated through mockups and style guides.

• Additional design skills in related fields, including film-making, motion design, and prototyping.

• Experience in designing interactions for voice led devices.

• Experience in designing cross platform experiences.

• Ability to extract complex concepts and quickly turn around rigorous flows and mock-ups reflecting a range of options.

• Ability to proficiently present design solutions to stakeholders in design, product management, and engineering.

• Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently

• Able to use best practices for mobile and web-based information architecture and design, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing relevant degree

• 0-1 years of relevant work experience

• Previous design internship(s) and/or project experience in design. 

• Experience working in a collaborative team environment to deliver high-quality design solutions.

• Experience in a variety of design, wire-framing, and prototyping tools.

• Preferred GPA 3.0 or above

Description of Roles: (Career paths that utilize this skillset full-time) 

At The Home Depot, our associates always have room to move up and explore new opportunities. After the Internship, here are some examples of early career roles for interns with a background in UX: 

• User Experience Designer 

• User Experience Researcher

Location: Interns will be expected to work in-person at the Atlanta Corporate Office (Store Support Center) four days a week (Monday-Thursday) and will work remotely one day a week (Fridays) during the 11-week program. Housing assistance will be provided to eligible interns.