User Experience Design Intern, 2026

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications:

* Due to local compliance requirements, applicants must be currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Design or a related technical field at a university in Brazil with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and February 2027.
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Experience with Figma.
* Relevant internship, work, or project experience applied into product designs and design practices.
* A portfolio that demonstrates design projects.
* Ability to communicate in Portuguese and English fluently, to engage with internal project stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

* Experience in interaction, graphic design, or motion design fundamentals.
* Experience with other design tools (e.g., Slides, AI Tools, Adobe Creative Cloud).
* Ability to apply brand visual assets in a user interface context and understanding of user-centered design principles.
* Excellent creative and visual thinker with excellent communication and problem solving skills.
* Available to start an internship for 30h/week in hybrid mode in September 2026 (The internship ends after 14-15 weeks).

About the job

We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We are ardently interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes, and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. In Brazil, our UX team operates as a dynamic internal design studio, acting as a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, researchers, writers, and engineers. We collaborate closely with engineering and product management to create innovative, usable, and great-looking products that people love to use, working across a wide variety of formats-from high-impact strategic presentations to deep product design.
As a UX Design Intern, you will envision how people experience our products and bring that outlook to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. You will join us at a pivotal moment where Search faces deep product challenges in balancing traditional discovery with new AI interactions. In this role, you'll learn to handle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible solutions for billions of people, supporting the creation of high-fidelity product prototypes that allow us to test and validate ideas with a high degree of accuracy before implementation. Under focused guidance, you will plan and execute UX designs for assigned projects, sometimes taking the lead on moderately complex flows and detailed interactions that define the future of the user experience.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

* Assist in designing and conducting user studies to gauge the usability of Google features, learning how to translate observations into actionable findings.
* Learn how to develop and communicate underlying design concepts that inspire and inform product implementation. Observe and learn how to make concrete, data-informed recommendations for product improvements based on research and user feedback.
* Support the creation of high-level storyboards, mockups, and prototypes, collaborating with Product Managers to understand how we evolve product features.
* Develop your understanding of typography, color, grids, and composition, while learning best practices for pixel-perfect production and design systems. Learn to produce high-quality design assets that accurately reflect Google's visual language and brand guidelines across varied project formats.
* Foster your intellectual curiosity by participating in testing and iteration cycles within the studio environment. Explore a broad range of styles and execution methods, building a solid foundation for consistent and polished design delivery