{"id":1472496,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lokal-product-designer-intern","title":"Product Designer Intern","company":{"id":16082,"name":"Lokal","domain":"lokalapps.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/lokalapps","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":true,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.6,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":32,"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"intern","employment_type":"internship","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"WhatsApp","optional":false},{"name":"Adobe After Effects","optional":true},{"name":"Figma","optional":true},{"name":"Rive","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T16:55:10Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T05:37:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":19,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":19},"description":"Role: Product Design Intern\nBangalore (Onsite)\nDuration: 6 Months\nAbout Lokal :\nIn 2018, we began with a WhatsApp group with a simple hypothesis: people in tier-2/3 towns weren’t really using the internet meaningfully yet. We believed that if we started with local content in their own language, they’d come back every day; once there was a habit and trust, that same space could naturally grow into classifieds and, eventually, something they used for almost everything online. This spark became Lokal. Our first instinct was to put everything in one place & one app - local updates, classifieds, jobs, matrimony and more. It worked, till it stopped working. Users gave us the insight - when one use case outweighs the others, everything else seems like noise. We listened. Like how Craigslist quietly seeded a generation of focused companies & marketplaces, we began unbundling and verticalising.\nToday, Lokal is a house of focused apps, many products, one mission: to connect Tier-2/3+ India to the Knowledge, opportunities, tools and experts they’ve always deserved.\nWe now operate dozens of live apps across categories like:\nEdutainment & Skill Learning - practical skills and learning in regional languages (GyanTV)\nMatrimonial Matchmaking - hyperlocal, compatibility-first partner search (Lokal Matrimony)\nAgri Consulting - farmer-first advisory in local languages (AgriLokal)\nLocal Jobs - blue- and grey-collar opportunities close to home (Lokal Jobs, Sahi Jobs)\nSocial & Community - Place to find & post social updates (Lokal app)\nEmotional Well-being & Peer Support - safe spaces to talk and feel heard (Dostt & Eaze)\nAstrology & Guidance - instant access to trusted Astrologers via chat and voice (AstroLokal)\nAdvisory Services - early bets in legal help, financial guidance, career counselling, and more\nUnder the hood, Lokal is a discovery and access platform: local-language internet + deep Bharat insight+ AI. When someone opens a product we’ve built, they don’t wade through clutter; they get a straight line to what they came for.\nThis is the story new teammates walk into: a company that started as a whatsapp group, became a family of focused apps, and kept one belief at the centre - access changes lives.We ship fast. We learn fast. We build for Bharat. We are backed by leading global and domestic investors including Y Combinator, Sony, Global Brain, India Quotient, and 3one4 Capital\nRole Overview:\nWe’re hiring for the Lokal design team. We care about user-first thinking, strong craft, and attention to details.\nWhat we’re looking for\nStrong user-first thinking\nAbility to think in flows, not isolated screens\nGood visual design fundamentals (spacing, typography, hierarchy)\nAttention to detail and consistency\nOpenness to feedback and fast iteration\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign clear, usable flows across mobile/web\nImprove existing product experiences\nWork on UI quality and interaction details\nContribute to design system components\nCollaborate with designers, PMs, and developers\nGood to have\nExposure to design systems\nInterest in interaction / motion design\nTools: Figma, Rive, After Effects\nWhat to send\nA portfolio showing your thinking + final output (more weightage)\nAnything that shows your thinking - prototypes, experiments, videos, visual work\nWhy Lokal\nWork on products used by millions\nLearn fast, ship fast\nBuild for real users with real constraintsIf you care about users, flows, and craft, you’ll do well here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3449,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Media","Job Boards & Aggregators","Consumer Internet Groups"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T16:55:10Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":50,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.559,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/lokal-product-designer-intern","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/lokal-product-designer-intern.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T08:34:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5766,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":16082},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=16082"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flokal-product-designer-intern"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flokal-product-designer-intern"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flokal-product-designer-intern"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/lokal-product-designer-intern\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flokal-product-designer-intern"}]}