UX Design Intern

Summary

Love solving sticky problems? Excited about crafting innovative solutions for global software? Interested in working on products that touch everyone’s lives? Come work with us! We’re a close-knit and multidisciplinary design team working to make cloud software that is at the forefront of the property and casualty insurance industry. From reshaping existing processes to figuring out how artificial intelligence will be incorporated into our products and benefit our users. The space is complex, challenging, and a lot of fun!

Job Description

What you get…

Guidewire is offering a 3 months internship in our UX team. You will be involved in fast paced and challenging design projects for insurance software which supports global insurance carriers throughout the world. Your work environment will be creative, dynamic and your design work will have reach and impact on a scale to some of the world’s largest insurers and their users.

This internship is designed for individuals who think beyond the interface, exploring how AI, research, and UX design come together to create seamless cloud interactions. You will work alongside experienced UX designers and researchers  in a real-world business environment—experimenting, testing, and refining AI-powered experiences for the insurance industry.

You will become part of our North America team, where you will practice what it means to be a professional User Experience Designer as you gain experience in Design Systems, Application Design and User Research. 

About You:

• Undergraduate or Master’s Degree in Interaction or other HCI Design-related field.

• Experience in conceptualizing generative AI experiences such as conversational experiences.

  • Develop, test, and refine AI prompts to optimize interactions between users and AI-driven features.

  • Explore generative AI applications to enhance UX workflows, design automation, and intelligent system responses.

  • Analyze user-AI interactions to improve accuracy, personalization, and efficiency in AI-generated responses.

  • Collaborate with designers and engineers to integrate AI-driven components into product workflows.

  • Stay up-to-date on emerging AI trends in UX, human-AI interaction, and prompt engineering

• Experience designing applications that balance user needs, commercial interests, and technological constraints.

• Demonstrated knowledge of design methods, tools and research methods. 

• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

• Have an online portfolio that shows how you have researched and crafted great experiences.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.

How we work:

• We build on each other’s ideas. We are committed to creating synergy and allowing for ‘ah-ha’ moments.

• Open and honest. We’re a healthy workgroup that respectfully debates at times and are committed to figuring it out. #keepItPositiveAndProductive.

• We like learning and are curious. There’s power in knowing what you don’t know and then filling in the knowledge gaps. Whether that be design or domain-related—The sky’s the limit!

• Confidence with humility. We value your thoughts and insights and recognize there are a lot of smart people we work with on our teams.

• Coachable and teachable. A growth mindset is critical to the best performing teams. Our commitment to every designer is to provide learning opportunities that both match and stretch their skills.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $50,000 - $96,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.