Winter 2027: Product Design Co-op, Intuit Design System (8 months)

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With tens of millions of customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

The Intuit Design System (IDS) is the foundation that designers and developers across Intuit use to build products. We define design tokens, components, and patterns for web, mobile, and AI-driven interfaces, and we work with the Intuit Brand team so products stay consistent.

This year we are rebuilding the system. Our next generation of components separates behavior from styling, so each business unit can change how components look without forking them, and so AI coding and design tools produce results that match the system. As a co-op, you will work directly with the team on this rollout. You will help redesign core components, shape a tool that lets teams customize those components, write the documentation, and help business units adopt the new system.

The team

You will join a small team of designers who care about both design and code. We treat accessibility and inclusive design as part of the work, not a final check. You will have a named mentor, a place in our weekly planning, and real projects with owners and dates.

What you'll get

By the end of the term you will have shipped work that other Intuit teams use. You will have written specs that engineers build from, published documentation, and run research with real product teams. You will leave with portfolio pieces that show systems thinking, accessibility practice, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Redesign core components for the new system. You will audit how existing components are built across Intuit's design systems, then write specs covering properties, variants, states, sizes, and interaction behavior.
• Design the component customization builder, a tool that lets product teams adjust components and see the result. You will work out what is a variant, what is a property, and what is a one-off override, and how to keep customization from breaking behavior customers rely on.
• Create and maintain the matching Figma components and usage guidelines, and keep names and tokens consistent between Figma, code, and documentation.
• Write and improve documentation on our design system site: component guidance, token guidance, and how-to content for designers and developers. This includes content written for people building with AI tools.
• Support the rollout. You will help teams test new components in real work, run research sessions with partner teams, turn findings into backlog items, and help write migration guidance.
• Check your work against accessibility guidelines throughout, including keyboard use, screen reader behavior, color contrast, and focus. Include people with a range of abilities in your research where you can.
• Use AI tools in your daily work. You will prototype with AI coding tools, use AI to audit components and check specs against our tokens, and test how well AI tools follow the design system.
• Help make the system work for AI. You will review AI-generated designs and code against our components, find where they go wrong, and write guidance, examples, and prompts that fix it.
• Prototype in code or in Figma, and share work early with designers, engineers, product managers, content strategists, and researchers.
• Present your work to the team and to partner teams, and take part in team planning and reviews.

Qualifications

What you'll bring

• Actively enrolled in a post-secondary education program
• A graduation date after the co-op term ends.
• Available for an 8-monthco-op work term for 40 hours per week, January - August 2027
• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada for the duration of the co-op term, without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.
• Ability to work in our Toronto office a minimum of 3 days per week
• Curiosity and a habit of testing ideas before committing to them
• An understanding of why companies build design systems, and how a system is used by the people who build with it
• Comfort at the intersection of design and code. You do not need to be an engineer, but you should be able to read HTML and CSS and talk with developers about how a component is built.
• Strong working knowledge of Figma, including components, variants, and variables
• Experience with prototyping, wireframing, and design thinking methods
• Clear writing and communication, in documents and in presentations
• Interest in accessibility and inclusive design. Experience is a plus, and we will teach the rest.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools for design or code, such as Claude, Cursor, or the AI features in Figma. Tell us how you use them and where you decide not to.
• Skill at writing clear prompts and instructions, and curiosity about how to give AI tools the context they need
• Good judgment about AI output. You check what it produces for accuracy and accessibility, and you can explain what you changed and why.
• A portfolio that shows how you think, including the decisions you made and what you learned, not only the finished screens

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
Toronto $51,000 - $112,500