Product Design Intern (Summer 2026)

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, Texas, USA

About the team

We're a diverse group of creative people that love to learn, collaborate, and solve large-scale problems. We're looking for an inquisitive, curious, and talented Product Design Intern to join our team. Your work will impact and influence the user experience of a product used by millions of people daily. As a Product Design Intern on the Product Experience Team, you will work closely with other designers, engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders. If you're a systems-thinking Product Designer who's excited to work on significant, meaningful, and complex problems with real-world impact, come help us make the Internet better! We'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do

• Demonstrate talent and passion for designing end-to-end experiences
• Work with a small group to complete a challenging, real-world project
• Distill complex problems into approachable steps through customer discovery, sketching, prototyping, and sharing ideas with your cross-functional team
• Receive coaching and mentorship from a Product Experience Designer
• Partner with product managers and engineering leaders to work through technical tradeoffs that affect product roadmaps
• Partner with other designers to collaborate on shared patterns, product vision, and design goals

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Currently enrolled in an accredited school program (undergraduate or graduate) or enrolled full time in an equivalent training program, pursuing a degree or certificate in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related technical field
• Available for a full-time 12-week internship, working from our Austin office 3-5 days a week during the summer (Jun-Aug)
• Product design experience, especially designing technical tools for business 
• Ability to quickly grasp technical domains, such as internet security, network services, and translate them into clear, intuitive user experiences
• Understanding of Design System, Accessibility concerns for SaaS products
• Experience or strong interest in designing experiences that simplify and communicate complex information
• Ability to advocate for customer centered design and be the voice of customers
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Interest, curiosity, and experience engaging with and using AI tools

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created