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Experience Design Intern (Summer 2027)

CompanyHP IQ
LocationSan Francisco
Work ModeOn Site
PostedNovember 12, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The intern will contribute to product positioning, visual storytelling, and the development of materials that communicate product experiences. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to apply design thinking to AI-driven product narratives and prototypes.
Internship Type
full time
Salary Range
$40 - $50
Company Size
145246
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
HP, for your best work.
About the Role

Who We Are

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

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. 

What You Might Do: 

  • 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. 

Preferred Skills 

  • 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. 

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

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Long term/short term disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Life insurance
  • Generous time off policies, including; 
    • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
    • 11 paid holidays
    • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

Why HP IQ?

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity—reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work.

  • Innovative Work
    Help shape the future of intelligent computing and workplace transformation.
  • Autonomy and Agility
    Work with the speed and focus of a startup, backed by HP’s scale.
  • Meaningful Impact
    Build AI-powered solutions that help people and organisations thrive.
  • Flexible Work Environment
    Freedom and flexibility to do your best work.
  • Forward-Thinking Culture
    We learn fast, stay future-focused, and imagine what comes next—together.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) Statement

HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).

Please be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.

If you’d like more information about HP’s EEO Policy or your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law – Supplement

Key Skills
Experience designNarrative designProduct positioningVisual storytellingContent creationDigital product designDesign systemsPrototypingDesign thinkingCommunication artsBrand strategyFilm productionWeb design
Categories
Art & DesignTechnologyCreative & MediaSoftware
Benefits
Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceLong term disability insuranceShort term disability insuranceEmployee assistance programFlexible spending accountLife insurancePaid parental leavePaid holidaysPaid vacationSick leave