Design Intern (Summer 2027)

About The Role

HP IQ’s Narrative and Design team collaborates on Experience Design and Narrative Design to explain and shape product experiences. The team bridges invention and product launch through product positioning, visual storytelling, experience videos, and product imagery. As HP’s innovation lab, HP IQ also explores AI experiences and emerging communication methods for new products. This internship is designed for a student with a background in brand strategy, brand design, film, web, content creation, digital product design, design systems, or a related communication arts and design discipline.

What You Might Do

• Contribute to product positioning, product vision, visual attributes, and visual affordances.
• Develop written, filmed, or designed materials to communicate product experiences.
• Create or support experience videos, product image captures, visual worlds, prototypes, or experience spaces.
• Apply narrative and design thinking to AI experiences and product storytelling.
• Present one or two projects or case studies, explaining the ideas, decisions, and execution.
• Collaborate across varied creative and product perspectives within an evolving experience and narrative design practice.
• Simplify complex concepts while retaining their meaning.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Currently enrolled in a degree program in communication arts, design, film, web, brand strategy, product design, or a related creative discipline.
• Portfolio containing one or more projects demonstrating writing, filming, design, content creation, or another relevant creative practice.
• Ability to clearly explain creative decisions, interests, and execution.
• Interest in applying creative work to product experiences, AI experiences, or technology-oriented design.
• Ability to work with broad or evolving briefs and connect individual disciplines to product needs.
• No specific industrial design, mechanical engineering, technical engineering, or coding background is required.

Compensation

• Hourly Pay Range: $40.00–$50.00 per hour. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.