Job description
User Experience Design Intern (UX/UI)
The Basics:
In this graduate-level position as a Tanium User Experience Design Intern (UX Intern), you will be tasked with designing best-of-breed products as part of a small and highly agile design and development team. Assigned a 1-1 mentor with a senior member of the team, you’ll experience what it’s like to be a full-time employee in the interface design field while honing your skills in a real-world environment.
Tanium’s UX team focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new products ideas are identified, user experience designers are responsible for iterating and designing the products from the ground up, while continuously iterating with product management, engineering and customers for feedback and input.
This is a hybrid position based out of Tanium’s Durham, NC office.
The hourly rate for this internship is$45-$60 per hour. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for a housing stipend, 401k matching, and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement.
What you’ll do:
Grow in user-centered design processes under 1-1 mentorship on our team
Primarily work with our UX design team helping them to complete their tasks, goals and deadlines–including possibly performing work on new designs.
Perform improvements/enhancements on existing designs.
Create a cross-discipline project designing a new feature/product/workflow/etc., working with an engineering squad, UX designers, as well as potentially project managers and research participants.
Conduct user research to learn about user needs and/or validate designs.
Required qualifications:
Graduate students HIGHLY preferred; undergrads may be considered if they have all relevant qualifications outlined below.
Fully authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future
Available to work full-time from June 8, 2026 to August 14, 2026
Full-time student currently enrolled in a college or university, pursuing a degree in User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science or related discipline.
Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above
Graduation date of Spring 2027 or Fall 2027 REQUIRED
Interest in doing real interface design with our team–not just performing consulting work
Professional communication and organization skills (can schedule meetings and manage an Outlook calendar without assistance, can create and present decks using PowerPoint confidently, can articulate alternative approaches in the design process, etc.)
At least some familiarity with basic web-based applications design
At least some familiarity with Adobe, Sketch, Figma or related applications
At least some experience implementing a user-centered approach to design
MUST have a portfolio and work samples to present to our interview team
Nice-to-have qualifications:
- Previous on-the-job experience in creating interface design
About Tanium
Tanium delivers the industry’s only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium’s customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world’s biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Each of our full-time team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
