UI/UX Design Intern

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Arena, a PTC Business, is looking for a talented and motivated UI/UX Design Intern to join our Product Design team. This role is ideal for an emerging designer interested in visual design, UI design, design systems, AI-assisted design, and creating polished digital product experiences.

As part of Arena's global design team, you will work closely with a senior UI/UX designer and collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to create and refine experiences across Arena's cloud-based products.

Responsibilities

• Create and refine polished, intuitive user interfaces for Arena's web-based products.
• Create UI designs, interaction concepts, and prototypes in Figma using Arena's design system and established UX patterns.
• Apply strong visual-design fundamentals to design assets.
• Contribute to Arena's design system by refining components, exploring new UI patterns, documenting usage, and maintaining visual consistency.
• Use AI-assisted design tools to explore concepts, create mockups and prototypes, and identify opportunities to improve design workflows.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to understand requirements, technical considerations, and user needs.
• Participate in design reviews, critiques, and collaborative working sessions, incorporating feedback as requirements evolve.
• Prepare designs for implementation with clear specifications, interaction states, component usage, and visual guidance.
• Support competitive analysis, customer feedback reviews, and design validation.
• Stay current with modern SaaS UI patterns, accessibility practices, design tools, and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with global teams across the US, Pune, and Suzhou, with occasional flexibility across time zones.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or equivalent education/experience in UI/UX Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or a related field.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual/UI design skills and thoughtful digital product design.
• Experience using Figma to create interface designs and interactive prototypes.
• Experience using AI-assisted design tools for visual exploration, rapid prototyping, concept generation, or design iteration.
• Ability to apply strong visual judgment and refine AI-generated concepts into polished solutions.
• Strong understanding of visual-design fundamentals, including layout, spacing, typography, hierarchy, color, and consistency.
• High attention to detail and ability to produce polished, implementation-ready design work.
• Interest in design systems, reusable components, and scalable UI patterns.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to receive feedback and iterate on designs.
• Ability to organize work and adapt as project requirements and priorities evolve.
• Willingness to collaborate with a distributed global team across time zones.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with or contributing to a design system or component library.
• Familiarity with accessibility and inclusive-design principles.
• Experience designing complex web applications, enterprise software, dashboards, tables, or data-heavy interfaces.
• Understanding of responsive web design and basic front-end concepts.
• Experience with motion, illustration, iconography, data visualization, or other visual-design specialties.
• Experience experimenting with emerging AI design and prototyping tools.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who combines strong visual craft with curiosity and a willingness to learn. You don't need years of professional product-design experience. We want someone who enjoys exploring ideas, cares about the details of a great interface, welcomes feedback, and is interested in learning how design works within a complex global product organization.

You should be excited about experimenting with new tools and technologies, including AI, while understanding that strong design requires human judgment, thoughtful decision-making, and attention to user needs.

Learn and Grow with Us

PTC is focused on developing the workforce of tomorrow, and we offer a world class internship experience to do just that. Our internship program provides students with hands-on work experience in a fast-paced, dynamic, work environment. As an intern, you will be tasked with several impactful projects that will help you learn and develop in your field. At PTC, we believe that a strong internship program focused on growth and development, will turn the students of today into the highly skilled workforce of tomorrow. Each program has a unique structure, goals, and is designed to do just that.

PTC carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, which include a candidate’s background and experience, in determining salary for a position. Compensation will vary based on these factors, but PTC anticipates the hourly range for this position to be between $32-$36. The actual pay may vary based on a candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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