Immersive Design Intern - Spring 2027

Punchcut is looking for an Immersive Design Intern to join our team. Immersive designers create experiences that go beyond the flat screen. Designers employ multi-disciplinary skills and emerging media to envision and realize rich multi-dimensional and multi-sensory experiences. You should have a strong understanding of user-centered design and be comfortable working independently and in collaboration with other designers. Applicants are currently enrolled in an academic program in a related field and are passionate about design that goes beyond the flat screen using motion, high fidelity prototyping, to create innovative solutions to mobile, wearable, spatial, and emerging interfaces. As a Punchcut intern, you'll play an active role on client projects, getting real-world, hands-on experience. Each day you'll learn from insightful and experienced co-workers as valued members of a fast-paced and fun creative team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Produce design artifacts such as motion studies, wireframes, and/or prototypes

Go beyond wireframes and mockups to show designs through higher-fidelity media that gives your team a feel of how the end user will engage with an experience

Help with the creation, evaluation, and execution of new tools, workflows, and frameworks

Share your knowledge in new workflows and tools with other project teams and disciplines

Create conceptual diagrams and storyboards

Sketch user scenarios and user interfaces to help conceptualize user experiences

Participate on multi-disciplinary teams to solve design challenges

Assist other members of the immersive design, interaction design and visual design teams as needed

Assist on marketing and internal assets between client projects

QUALIFICATIONS:

Strong Figma experience.

Deep experience with After Effects, Rive, or other motion design tools. Strong understanding of prototype tools and methodologies.

Education in Motion Design, Interaction Design or related field

Demonstrated understanding of user-centered design theory and practice

Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills

Ambitious, proactive, conceptual, and honest

A portfolio showcasing motion design projects in the context of software design

BONUS POINTS:

Design and prototype experience for emerging interfaces such as IoT and AI

3D experience

Sound + haptic experience is a plus

Experience with digital accessibility thinking

Designing for games, voice, automotive, or XR

Familiarity with agentic workflows for designing and prototyping

WHY PUNCHCUT?

Punchcut is a human interface design and innovation company. For over twenty years we've worked with the world's top companies to envision, design and launch connected products and services that engage customers and transform businesses. We believe strongly in approaching these design challenges from many different perspectives so we might find the most important, innovative, and universal solutions.

Our team is building a company that is diverse, equal, and inclusive – one where everyone feels valued and free to be their authentic selves. At Punchcut we embrace differences and all of the amazing, unique characteristics that make us human.

Punchcut designers are located across many time zones. We offer a virtual first, flexible work schedule and take pride in providing a balanced work environment. Full time employees receive medical, dental, life, and disability insurance as well as paid and sabbatical time off. Additional benefits include a 401k plan as well as allowances for technology, home office set up, professional development and wellness.

Cultivating a diverse, thriving, dispersed work environment is never done. We’re growing our network of people and programs to help us realize this vision. Join us in designing for the future we all want to see.

Punchcut is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Salary: The pay range for this role is $35-50hr. Compensation within this range determined by taking into account candidate experience, business/market financials and internal pay parity.

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