Design Builder Intern - 2026 - Seattle

Design Builder – 2026 Summer Intern 

By joining the Expedia Group 2026 Global Summer Internship Program as a Design Builder Intern you’ll fully integrate into our inclusive community and gain a well-rounded experience of life at Expedia Group. Our global program offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to business-critical projects by developing your skills through tailored learning and training, providing ongoing support, and offering insightful intern-specific events to build knowledge and community. We’re building a more open world. Join us. 

Internship Program Highlights:    

• Onboarding: Connect with your cohort, receive support, and set up for success in your first week 

• Intern Bootcamp: Technical and professional skills learning, both in-person and virtual, delivered in your first week to help you get set up for success 

• Meaningful work and projects: Interns join a variety of Expedia Group teams and directly contribute to business workstreams and priorities; at the conclusion of the internship interns present their work to team members and senior leadership 

• Learning Series: Interactive workshops delivered by our Learning team to build professional & soft skills, and support development, including topics such as personal branding and presentation skills 

• Leadership Series: Exclusive intern-only events with our Travel Leadership Team leaders to learn about their career journeys, hear their views on industry and company trends and ask questions! 

• Social events: Regular fun events organized for each regional cohort so you can get to know others, enjoy the Expedia Group culture, and enjoy some downtime! 

• Mentorship: Mentors are assigned to each individual intern to support your development and learning throughout the program and are also a great way to build your understanding and network at EG. 

• Support: Coaching and advice, provided by managers, team navigators (buddies) and a specific point of contact per region from Emerging Talent & Careers. 

About the Role 

The Expedia Design Builder Internship is designed for product designers who are pushing the edge of what design is becoming. This program is for individuals who blend strong visual and interaction craft with systems thinking and AI‑native workflows—designers who are comfortable shaping both the experience and the logic behind it. You’ll work across Expedia’s travel portfolio, contributing to real initiatives and forward‑looking prototypes that reflect our commitment to a builder‑led, AI‑native design culture. 

As a Design Builder, you’ll flex across skillsets and engage in big‑picture thinking while also diving deep into typography, layout, motion, behavior modeling, and intelligent system interactions. You’ll create interactive explorations that show how experiences work—not just how they look—while collaborating closely with partners across design, product, engineering, research, and AI/ML. 

What You’ll Do 

• Create interactive, functional prototypes that demonstrate real system behavior—how states change, how intelligence adapts the interface, and how users move through workflows. 

• Produce core design artifacts including user flows, journey maps, visual layouts, and motion explorations. 

• Explore how intelligent systems change the interface itself, modeling state transitions and prototyping adaptive behaviors. 

• Work across travel discovery, booking, post‑booking support, and partner/supplier tools, contributing to initiatives that span surfaces, roles, and systems. 

• Develop clear documentation that explains the logic behind your designs and the reasoning behind key decisions. 

• Collaborate with designers, design leads, product managers, researchers, engineers, and—when relevant—data science and AI/ML teams to shape feasible, customer‑informed, system‑aware experiences. 

• Participate in regular design reviews with your immediate product team and share your work with extended partners across product, engineering, and research. 

• Present your work to the broader intern community and, at the end of the program, to senior leaders and the design organization. 

• Contribute to real, high‑velocity projects, reinforcing our belief that this is not an observational program but a hands‑on opportunity to turn ideas into working experiences. 

Minimum Requirements:  

• Must be available to commit to the full program dates: June 22nd - August 28th, 2026

• Must be graduating with an undergraduate or master’s degree in a design related subject (e.g. Digital Product Design, UX/UI Design, or related field) between December 2026 and July 2027  

• Must be willing to relocate to city of job location if outside commuting distance  

• Must commit to full time hours every week  

• Must be graduating from university in the same country of internship location  

• Must have no more than 2 years of professional experience in a similar role  

Preferred Experience: 

• Helpful to possess a combination of creative and coding skills, including familiarity with executing AI tools to building working prototypes in code 

• Helpful to have capability across common design and AI tools, including Cursor, Claude, Codex, Google AI studio, and others.  

What We Offer: 

Successful candidates will receive a competitive compensation package including the benefits below and others:   

• The total cash range for this position in Seattle $45-51 per hour. The pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location and degree level.  

• Hybrid Work Policy  

• Health care benefits: medical, dental & vision options 

• Travel discounts 

• Opportunity to receive a full-time permanent offer after graduation and 12 months of customized support from our Emerging Talent & Careers team 

• Community support through Expedia Group’s Inclusion Business Groups   

• Relocation support (if eligible) 

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