User Experience Research Intern - Summer 2025

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.
 
Join us to transform the way the world works.

This is a 12-week summer internship based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or New York City. 

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together. 

Our global User Experience Research (UXR) team advances our vision by discovering actionable insights to inform and inspire the design of quality, inclusive products. We're passionate about designing an equal, fair, and accessible platform that’s modern, engaging, and responsible.   

Our products help professionals all over the world stay connected, informed, and productive. The LinkedIn ecosystem is about more than just job hunting. We create and support active communities and enterprise products around sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting. Our team uses a wide range of research methods across the product development lifecycle. We pride ourselves on the rigor of our work, and we encourage experimentation as we connect the dots between user insights, design patterns, and business goals.     

As an intern on the User Experience Research team, you will contribute to the entire research process, from project scoping to synthesis and communication of insights. You’ll collaborate closely with other experienced UXRs and a cross-functional team to influence key strategy and execution decisions. 

We’re looking for interns to join our team of curious, critical thinkers to work in partnership with product design, content design, product management, engineering, marketing, market research, and data science. Building products for the world's workforce takes a bold, diverse, empowered team — come be a part of ours.  

Responsibilities: 

• Partner with design, product, data science, and marketing colleagues to understand business needs and design appropriate research studies to generate user- focused insights.     

• Design and conduct user research studies, including surveys, in-depth interviews, field studies, and concept/prototype testing.     

• Deliver compelling research findings with clear recommendations.  

Basic Qualifications: 

• Currently pursuing BA/BS, MA/MS or PhD in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Science, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or related field – or equivalent experience.   

• Currently enrolled in a college or university program and returning to school the term  following your summer internship.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Understand how to frame a research study around a clear business problem.       

• Basic understanding of research, design and product development practices.     

• Ability to derive clear insights from structured or unstructured data from a single study.     

• Ability to tell a coherent, linear story, with clearly documented findings and recommendations that relate to the original brief.  

• Excellent collaboration, communication, and project management skills. 

• Advocates for the user and brings their perspectives to life.      

• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision.     

• Demonstrated knowledge of UX heuristic principles, inclusive design, design ethics, and   accessibility. 

Suggested Skills: 

• Ability to design and execute research  

• Storytelling and presentation skills 

• Verbal and written communication skills 

• Project management skills 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $55 to $65 per hour. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.  

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