What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer Intern (Boulder, Colorado - Summer 2025) position at Splunk?
Description
Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
Role Summary
Are you enthusiastic about both user interfaces and data? Do you think design has the power to make the world better? Do you enjoy the challenge of helping users quickly and easily turn big data into valuable insights? If so, Splunk would love to hear from you!
We’re looking for an individual who is currently exploring designing for sophisticated users who need to perform complex, iterative analyses on data of widely varying types, and get quickly to insights. A designer who knows how to enable users to craft compelling visualizations, both individually and as part of dashboards and reports, that communicate these insights.
We’re also looking for someone who can communicate effectively, and collaborate closely with other designers, user researchers, developers, and product managers and has a passion for learning new things.
What you'll get to do
- Assist with building attractive, high quality UI/UX designs, of both low and high fidelity. Ability to execute visual design is a plus.
- Build visual design for pages across various web based products.
- Work as a team with staff members on interaction design/ help web production team to publish content.
Must-have Qualifications
- Actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related technical field, and strong record of academic achievement.
- At least one semester/quarter remaining to complete after the internship
- Available to work 40 hours a week for 12 weeks
Nice-to-have Qualifications
We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.
- Communicating your ideas and concepts - both verbally and visually, through clear documentation
- Working within a visual design language and guideline to design thoughtful, well-crafted solutions
- Turning complex problems into simple solutions
- Testing and exploring different ideas at various fidelities of prototypes
- Working independently as well as within a team
- You have experience with working with any of the following: Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Sketch
- We give preference to experience with crafting a web application: in a class, as a personal hobby, as a job, as part of an open source project. You have an interest in data visualization.
Our Splunktern Program allows incoming interns the flexibility to choose from three start dates, currently anticipated to be:
- Monday, May 19, 2025 - Friday, August 8, 2025
- Monday, June 2, 2025 - Friday, August 22, 2025
- Monday, June 16, 2025 - Friday, September 5, 2025
Candidates should consider their availability to start on one of these three dates prior to submitting an application. Please note: the dates above are subject to change at Splunk's sole discretion.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!
