Product Design Intern - Design System - Summer 2025
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5 Feb 2025
Verified by Turrior
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
70 / 100
Offer value
Internship in product design offers practical experience but might not provide significant career advancement opportunities.
- Gain practical experience in product design
- Remote flexibility with a collaborative team
- Opportunities to work with established design systems
- Limited involvement in decision-making by nature of internship
Pros
- Opportunities to engage with design systems and UI
- Remote work contributes to a better work-life balance
- Focus on collaborative team projects
Cons
- Limited autonomy in project decision-making
- Experience may not be sufficient for full-time roles
- Short internship duration limits project involvement
Who it's for
Entry-level • Fully remote
Good fit
- Design students or recent graduates
- Individuals wanting to explore product design
- Entry-level candidates excited about design systems
Not recommended for
- Experienced designers seeking senior roles
- Candidates unfamiliar with basic design principles
- Individuals not interested in design or collaboration
Motivation fit
Desire to explore product design and UIInterest in collaborative and team-focused environmentsWillingness to learn and absorb design best practices
Key skills
Figma and design tools proficiencyUnderstanding of UI principlesBasic knowledge of HTML/CSSTeam collaboration
Score: 70/100 AI verified analysis
About the job
About 1Password:
We all have important information we need to manage, and protecting it should be easy. Over 150,000 businesses and millions of people log in to 1Password to unlock smart, simple access to everything they care about. Our vision is to create a safer, simpler digital future for everyone, and our culture values simplicity, honesty and a human-centric approach to solving problems. Come help us unlock peace of mind so everyone can stay safer online.
The Knox Design System team is a cross-functional group of people. Our main goal is to help teams achieve higher efficiency, consistency, and scalability when building 1Password products. We create and maintain a library of reusable design components and usage guidelines.
Remote by design. 1Password has been remote-first since our inception in 2005, meaning that we’re no stranger to building digital community and culture. With our teams fully remote and located all around the world, we stay connected through company-wide events, coffee chats, fun Slack channels, and peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly — just to name a few. Our remote environment means that you have the flexibility to make those midday workout classes, take your dog out for a walk when they need one, and run errands on your own schedule. As an intern, you can expect to set core hours with your manager, and then work when you’re at your best. We all thrive in different conditions, so we encourage you to make your workday work for you! 💙
This is a remote opportunity within Canada. This is a full time (40 hours per week) position that will run for 4 months - May to August 2025.
What you can expect:
- Experience using design systems, component libraries, and/or UI Kits
- Leverage an understanding of UI and visual design skills to help define standards and best practices for designing with the 1Password Design System Knox (color theory, typography, visual hierarchy, grid, and layout)
- Experience using Figma tool and ecosystem
- Ability to creating designs that demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and craft
- Proactive attitude to work and ability to work closely with and support Product Designers and developers across multiple teams
What we're looking for:
- Confidence: A willingness to take on new challenges, and see them through to completion.
- Humility: You're not afraid to ask "stupid" questions and make mistakes (as long as you learn from them).
- Curiosity: You look for better ways of doing things, even if everyone seems happy with how they are.
- Teamwork: We work together, and succeed as a team!
Bonus points for:
- Experience creating animations or illustration
- A background in graphic design, visual design, or human-computer interaction
- Familiarity with accessibility standards, inclusive design practices, and accessibility features
- Knowledge and understanding of front-end development HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Even if you don't tick all those boxes, we'd like to hear from you.
The most important thing you can bring to this job is the drive to dive in, get the work done, and fix root causes instead of treating symptoms. We believe in continuous learning and support professional development on the job with a budget to back it up. If you bring a desire to do the right thing for our customers, a sense of ownership over the product you work on, and a focus on shipping quality code, we want to hear from you.
This role will close on Friday, February 14th, 2025.
What we offer:
We believe in working hard, and resting hard. We’re always looking for new ways to support our team members, but here’s a glance at what we currently offer:
> 🏝 Generous PTO policy - 2.08 days per month (1.5 work weeks per 4 month term)
> 💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
> 🌎 Employee-led DEIB programs and ERGs and ECGs
> 🏠 Fully remote environment
> 🏆 Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
> 💡 1Password University access and learning sessions
> 🥳 Monthly internship events and socials
You belong here.
1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.
Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at nextbit@agilebits.com and we’ll work to meet your needs.
Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we're experts at building remote culture. That said, remote work at 1Password does mean working from your home country. If you've got questions or concerns about this, your talent partner would be happy to address them with you.
Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.
1Password uses an automated employment decision tool as a part of the recruitment process. See the latest bias auditinformation. A reasonable accommodation, reasonable alternative selection process, appeal or to exercise your right to opt-out of AADM may be requested by emailing nextbit@agilebits.comwith subject "AI accommodation request". For additional information see our Candidate Privacy Notice.
Benefits
Paid time off, Professional development opportunities, Wellness programs, Asynchronous work, Tuition reimbursement, Remote work options, Gym membership, Company-wide events and team-building activities, Learning and development budget, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
