The Role
Visual Design Intern developing illustration, iconography, motion, and visual systems for Paytm product surfaces. Responsibilities include researching references, creating original visual directions, translating emotional tone into visuals, maintaining brand consistency, collaborating with product designers and managers, using AI tools thoughtfully, iterating from feedback, and extending Paytm’s visual language. The role includes mentorship, critiques, and cross-functional collaboration.
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About Paytm
Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Visual Design Intern who can bring craft, taste, and a strong sense of direction to Paytm’s visual language — someone who thinks beyond a single polished screen and can translate everyday, utility-first product moments into visuals that feel considered and unmistakably Paytm. You’ll work on illustration, iconography, and visual systems for product surfaces used at scale — sourcing references, building a point of view, and executing that direction with craft, alongside designers and stakeholders across the team. Throughout the internship, you’ll have a dedicated design mentor, participate in design critiques, and learn how a considered visual direction gets built, defended, and scaled across a product.
What You’ll Do
● Source and synthesize references into an original, defensible visual direction — not just execute a given style.
● Translate a product’s emotional tone — trust, playfulness, urgency, calm — into visuals that serve that specific context.
● Collaborate with product designers, product managers, and the design team to keep visual language consistent with the brand.
● Contribute to and help extend Paytm’s evolving visual systems (illustration, iconography, motion) for use across products.
● Use AI tools as part of your craft process, while maintaining a distinct, non-generic point of view.
● Take feedback, iterate fast, and improve visual quality with every round.
What We’re Looking For
● Final-year student pursuing a degree in Design, Visual Communication, Illustration, Animation, or a related field.
● Strong visual and illustration fundamentals — composition, form, colour, and craft.
● Ability to source references thoughtfully and synthesize them into an original direction, not just imitate them.
● An eye for translating brand identity across different tones and contexts — playful, premium, utilitarian, and beyond.
● Hands-on experience with design/illustration tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar); familiarity with AI tools as part of the workflow.
● Motion & graphics sensibility is a strong plus.
● Curiosity, ownership, and openness to feedback.
● A portfolio with strong visual range and process — show us your references, explorations, and decisions, not just polished final visuals.
Why Join Us?
● Design for real impact
Your visuals will live inside a product used at scale.
● Learn from experienced designers
Get dedicated mentorship, regular critiques, and feedback.
● Grow through collaboration
Work closely with cross-functional teams and learn through continuous 360° feedback.
● Be part of the team
Build strong relationships with peers and mentors through ownership, craft and contribution.
How to Apply
Share your resume and portfolio through the application form.
We want to understand how you think.
Show us your process, explorations, decisions, iterations, and final outcomes - not just polished designs.
Skills Required
- Final-year student pursuing a degree in Design, Visual Communication, Illustration, Animation, or a related field
- Strong visual and illustration fundamentals, including composition, form, colour, and craft
- Ability to thoughtfully source references and synthesize them into an original visual direction
- Ability to translate brand identity across playful, premium, utilitarian, and other contexts
- Hands-on experience with Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar design and illustration tools
- Familiarity with AI tools in the design workflow
- Motion and graphics sensibility
- Curiosity, ownership, and openness to feedback
- Portfolio demonstrating visual range, process, references, explorations, decisions, iterations, and final outcomes
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The Company
What We Do
Paytm started the Digital Revolution in India. And we went on to become India’s leading Payments App. Today, more than 20 Million merchants & businesses are powered by Paytm to Accept Payments digitally. This is because more than 300 million Indians use Paytm to Pay at their stores. And that’s not all, Paytm App is used to Pay bills, do Recharges, Send money to friends & family, Book movies & travel tickets. With innovations to Financial services & products in pipeline, this is but one of the milestones achieved towards our mission – to bring 500 million unserved and underserved Indians to the mainstream economy.
