Hybrid Product Design Internship

at AAAS

• Job title: Product Design Internship
• Job type: Internship
• Experience level: Entry level
• Salary: $23 - $30 per hour
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Pasadena, United States

About the role

• Product Design Intern focused on designing AI transparency and user-centric platforms for ProRata. Engaging in a hands-on internship with a startup reshaping creator compensation.

Responsibilities

• Design for AI transparency: You'll help address one of the biggest design challenges today—making AI accountable. Work together on designing our AI-powered search and attribution platform, creating interfaces that provide publishers with clear, meaningful insight into how their content is discovered, credited, and valued in the era of AI.
• Build for the user: This isn't an "assist with" role; you'll own it. Lead the end-to-end product design process from initial concepts and user flows to wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI, making sure every touchpoint across ProRata's product suite, Gist, feels seamless and intuitive for the publishers, advertisers, and creators who depend on it.
• Contribute to our design system: Great products are built on strong foundations. You'll design and maintain reusable components and patterns that drive Gist’s design system.
• Visual design: Bring your creative vision to life. Introduce fresh design elements that elevate Gist’s aesthetic and ensure every new component feels cohesive, intentional, and unmistakably on-brand.

Requirements

• Education: A current undergraduate (Junior/Senior) or graduate student pursuing a degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Communications, or related field.
• Availability: Able to commit to a minimum of 30 hours per week for ten consecutive weeks this summer.
• Experience & Skills: High proficiency in Figma, an excellent visual design eye, a solid understanding of UX principles and product thinking, and genuine curiosity about design, AI and search technology.
• Portfolio and resume required with application.

Benefits

• Direct mentorship from our design team — leaders who are genuinely invested in who you're becoming, not just what you're delivering.
• The opportunity to do meaningful work on a platform that is reshaping how AI credits and compensates the creators who power the internet — a problem that truly matters, at a company built specifically to solve it.
• Gain hands-on experience with modern AI-assisted design workflows and the tools shaping the future of product creation.