Product Designer, Internship

About the Role

Rilla is on a mission to index the offline world, building the leading sales coaching software for organizations. Backed by prominent investors, we operate as an in-office team in NYC, driven by builders who learn at high speeds. We are obsessed with our customers, move at high velocity, embrace failure, and aim to maximize real-world impact. This internship offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of bringing AI to the physical world, evolving our core product and spearheading new verticals across desktop and mobile platforms. You will tackle ambiguous, greenfield challenges as we expand into new workflows, users, and markets, working directly with customers to uncover real-world problems. As one of three designers, you will play a pivotal role in defining Rilla’s design culture and shaping team collaboration. We are seeking designers who are obsessive about quality, shipping speed, and impact, with an aspiration to be founders or leaders in AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Evolve our core product.
• Spearhead new verticals across desktop and mobile platforms.
• Tackle ambiguous, greenfield challenges as we expand into new workflows, users, and markets.
• Work alongside customers from day one to uncover real-world problems.
• Lead projects from discovery through feature design and implementation, alongside engineering peers.
• Onboard customers to early prototypes.
• Gather feedback and iterate rapidly to build what truly matters.
• Help shape the product culture as one of the first designers at a high-growth startup.
• Ship product rapidly to learn from customers.

What We Value

• An infinite learner, relentless in their curiosity.
• Customer obsessive, deeply caring about delighting customers and solving real pains.
• A winning attitude, thriving with extreme accountability, team learning, and rapid feedback.
• Extreme empathy for customers who live and work in the real world.
• Unafraid of failure, taking risks and seeing failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Demonstrate deep drive and genuine passion for your craft, with a strong focus on designing and shipping beautiful UI.
• Embrace a customer-centric approach, eager to engage directly with users.
• Champion the quality and craftsmanship of every experience, prioritizing thoughtful design and intuitive interactions.
• Be energized by the opportunity to join an early stage team.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Nice to have: Experience with production-level coding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or front-end frameworks like React and Tailwind.
• Nice to have: A willingness to continue learning.

Benefits

• Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.
• Commuter benefits.
• Relocation assistance.
• Take what you need paid time off.
• $1,500 a month rent stipend + assistance in finding housing for the internship.
• Tech equipment.
• Unlimited token budget.

Don’t Join If You’re Not Excited About

• Building an AI product for an industry untouched by modern software.
• Constantly talking to and visiting customers in the field.
• Working ~60 hrs/week in person with ambitious people in NYC.
• Attempting to build a generational company and the intensity required.
• Pushing the boundaries in the visual and interactive experience of traditional B2B SaaS, approaching the product with the mindset of a premium consumer platform.