Design Intern (Summer 2027)

About the Role

HP IQ’s Narrative and Design team works across Experience Design and Narrative Design to help explain and shape product experiences. The team connects invention with product launch and deployment through product positioning, visual storytelling, experience videos, product imagery, and other creative work. As HP’s innovation lab, HP IQ also explores AI experiences and emerging ways of communicating new products. This internship is intended for a student who can contribute from a background in brand strategy, brand design, film, web, content creation, digital product design, design systems, or a related communication arts and design discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to product positioning, product vision, visual attributes, and visual affordances.
• Develop written, filmed, or designed materials that 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 behind the work.
• Collaborate across varied creative and product perspectives within an evolving experience and narrative design practice.
• Simplify complex concepts so they are easier to understand without removing 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 for this role.

Compensation

• Hourly Pay Range: $40.00–$50.00 per hour.