Product Design Co-Op (Summer 2025 - 8 months)
Company Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
At Intuit, we get up every morning with our hearts beating fast, driven by the knowledge that we're transforming the world of consumer and small business finance. We’re obsessed with our customers. Because of this, we’re continually challenging and disrupting ourselves, to improve their financial lives. It’s why our products continue to resonate with 50 million consumers around the globe. We are a Fortune 500 fintech company, and Canada’s Best Places to work several years in a row.
As a product design co-op, you will be a valued member of our design systems team, working alongside experienced designers and cross-functional partners. You will actively participate in the product design lifecycle, systems design, contributing to user research, concept development, interaction design, and visual design. You'll gain hands-on experience in how design integrates with product strategy and development. Through this internship, you will learn to translate user needs into compelling designs, contribute to a user-centered product, and actively seek out opportunities for growth within the design field.
Responsibilities
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate on User-Centered Solutions: Participate in design thinking workshops and brainstorming sessions to help solve customer problems.
- Contribute to Design System Maintenance: Assist in defining and documenting design system elements based on established brand and product guidelines.
- Assist in Ideation and Validation: Help conceptualize a variety of design ideas and contribute to the process of narrowing them down for validation.
- Create Design Deliverables: Support the creation of high-quality design deliverables, including wireframes, prototypes (Figma), and interaction patterns, with guidance from senior designers.
- Support User Research: Participate in customer research activities, assisting with tasks such as note-taking and observation.
- Collaborate and Share: Share your design work with the team, actively participating in critiques and collaborating with designers, product managers, and developers to iterate on designs.
Qualifications
What You'll Bring:
- Eagerness to Learn and Experiment: A strong curiosity and willingness to test new ideas and learn from feedback.
- Interest in Design Systems: An understanding of the importance of design systems and a desire to learn more about their application.
- Appreciation for Design and Development Collaboration: An understanding that design and coding are connected and a desire to learn how they work together.
- Clear Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate design ideas through wireframes, prototypes, and presentations.
- User-Focused Mindset: A passion for understanding user needs and creating products that provide positive user experiences.
- Foundational UX Design Skills: Basic knowledge of UX design principles and tools, including design thinking, wireframing, prototyping (Figma), and user research methodologies.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Actively enrolled in a post-secondary education program.
- A graduation date at least 4 months after the co-op term ends.
- Available for an 8-month co-op work term (May - December).
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada for the duration of the co-op term, without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.
- Ability to work in our Toronto office a minimum of 3 days per week.
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