Product Design Intern

We partner with universities to run online degree programs, from course production to enrolment support. Since 1998, the platform has grown to more than 5,000 corporate customers. Deadlines cluster at the end of the quarter when clients spend their budgets.

The program:

Wheatside is hiring a Product Design Intern for Sep 2027. The intern will help redesign our onboarding and settings pages and run a few remote usability tests. Remote position. Most of the team is in Santiago, but nobody is required to come in. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Responsibilities:

• Present your work in weekly design critiques and take feedback on board.
• Make interactive prototypes so the team can click through a flow before it is built.
• Collect competitor screenshots and annotate patterns worth borrowing.
• Write short UX copy for buttons, tooltips and onboarding steps.
• Build and update components in the shared design system.
• Design empty states, error messages and loading screens that are often missed.
• Review built screens in staging and log visual bugs in Jira.

Basic qualifications:

• Eligible to work in Chile.
• Based in Chile for the duration of the internship.
• Some experience talking to users or running a simple survey.
• Must be online for at least 3 hours of overlap with the team each weekday.
• Available for 25 to 40 hours a week.
• Comfortable taking direct feedback on your work.
• Portfolio with at least two case studies showing your process, not just final screens.
• Good working knowledge of Figma, including auto layout and components.

Preferred qualifications:

• Interest in fintech, edtech or SaaS products.
• Familiarity with Material Design and iOS guidelines.
• Google UX Design Certificate or a similar course.

What you get out of it:

• Certificate and recommendation letter, plus a full-time interview if things go well.
• How to work with developers on handoff and handle the trade-offs that come up.
• Running usability tests and turning messy feedback into clear changes.
• A few strong case studies for your portfolio by the end.

Program dates: Sep 2027, 10-12 weeks.

Pay: CLP 680,000-CLP 900,000 monthly

Benefits for interns:

• Paid public holidays.
• Flexible hours.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Online learning budget.
• Internet allowance.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: Sep 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wheatside SpA.