Product Design Intern
Location: San Jose, CA (On-site only, no relocation)
Team: Product Management
Why We’re Hiring
Alkira is hiring a Product Design Intern for a short term summer project that will last 7 weeks. The Intern will support our expanding needs and help maintain a high standard of quality across the product. In this role, you’ll contribute to visual polish, design system improvements, UX enhancements, and design operations. This is a unique opportunity to work closely with experienced designers, gain hands-on exposure to enterprise SaaS, and make meaningful contributions to a product that’s shaping the future of cloud networking.
What You’ll Do
- Assist with visual design polish including layout cleanups, spacing, icons, and presentation mocks.
- Contribute to the design system by auditing Figma libraries, adding missing variants, and updating documentation.
- Provide tactical support on small features, UX tweaks, and internal tooling interfaces.
- Support design operations through organizing assets, refining specs, and ensuring smooth developer handoffs.
- Participate in design critiques, user research synthesis, and competitor experience audits.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and engineers to ensure designs are both usable and scalable.
What You’ll Bring
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in HCI, Design, or related field.
- Strong proficiency in Figma; familiarity with design tools like Miro, Jira, or Confluence is a plus.
- A portfolio showcasing visual design fundamentals (typography, layout, hierarchy) and UX thinking.
- Curiosity, attention to detail, and a collaborative spirit.
- Excitement to learn how enterprise-grade SaaS products are designed and shipped.
What You’ll Gain
- Hands-on experience contributing to a live enterprise SaaS product.
- Mentorship from experienced designers with patents and industry recognition.
- Exposure to design systems, UX process, and cross-functional collaboration with PMs and engineers.
- An opportunity to make meaningful contributions that improve product quality and scalability.
- A potential pipeline for a full-time role post-internship.
- The pay range for intern position is $25 - $35/hr
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Skills Required
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in HCI, Design, or related field
- Strong proficiency in Figma
- Familiarity with Miro, Jira, or Confluence
- Portfolio showcasing visual design fundamentals and UX thinking
- Curiosity, attention to detail, and a collaborative spirit
- Excitement to learn how enterprise-grade SaaS products are designed and shipped
- Ability to work on-site in San Jose, CA for the full internship (no relocation provided)
What We Do
Welcome to the future of networking! Alkira reinvents networking for the cloud era with global unified network infrastructure delivered as-a-service. The Alkira Cloud Networking platform is a solution that offers enterprises a dramatically simplified experience for deploying global, high-speed hybrid and multi-cloud networks connecting users, sites, and clouds with integrated network and security services, end-to-end day-2 operational visibility, advanced controls, and governance. There is no need to procure hardware, deploy complicated do-it-yourself software solutions, or learn cloud networking architectures. Just draw your network on an intuitive digital design canvas, provision it in one click, and start using it in minutes. Alkira Network Cloud is trusted by the global Fortune-100 enterprises, leading system integrators, and managed service providers. The Network. Reinvented for Cloud
