User Experience Research Intern
Tinder
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- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 1 year · Bachelor's degree or Master's degree
- Must know
- Recruiting
- Work
- On-site in Los Angeles · internship
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
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- Listed
- Nov 6, 2026 · still open
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About The Role
You'll join Tinder's UX Research team for a summer and work on real studies that ship into the product. You'll partner with researchers, designers, PMs, and data scientists to figure out how people use Tinder and where it can be better. You'll own a defined piece of a project, and you'll present what you find to the team at the end.
Program Duration: June 1 through August 31, 2027.
Location: Hybrid, requiring in-office collaboration in Los Angeles three times per week.
Key Responsibilities
- Support live research projects by helping plan studies, recruit participants, and run sessions.
- Run usability tests and user interviews, and help design and field surveys.
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data and pull out the patterns that matter.
- Turn findings into clear recommendations for Product and Design.
- Share your work through short written reports, creative artifacts, and presentations.
- Help improve how the UXR team documents its processes.
- Deliver a capstone project and present it to the team at the end of the internship.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in HCI, Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Sociology, or a related field (or a recent graduate).
- Some hands-on research experience through coursework, a lab, a capstone, or a prior internship.
- Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative methods, such as interviews, usability testing, and surveys.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills, and comfort juggling more than one project.
- Clear communication, written and verbal.
- Curiosity about people and a collaborative, low-ego approach to working with others.
Nice To Have
- Genuine interest in social apps and how Gen Z uses them.
- A portfolio or sample of research work, such as a case study or project writeup.
What You Will Get
- Mentorship from a UXR team member and a defined project with real visibility.
- Exposure to cross-functional work across Product, Design, and Data Science.