Visual Design Intern- Paytm

About Paytm

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

Location: Noida

Duration: 5 months | January - May 2027

Work Mode: In-office, 5 days a week

About the Role

We’re looking for a Visual Design Intern who can bring craft, taste, and a strong sense of direction to Paytm’s visual language - someone who thinks beyond a single polished screen and can translate everyday, utility-first product moments into visuals that feel considered and unmistakably Paytm. You’ll work on illustration, iconography, and visual systems for product surfaces used at scale - sourcing references, building a point of view, and executing that direction with craft, alongside designers and stakeholders across the team. Throughout the internship, you’ll have a dedicated design mentor, participate in design critiques, and learn how a considered visual direction gets built, defended, and scaled across a product.

What You’ll Do

• Source and synthesize references into an original, defensible visual direction - not just execute a given style.
• Translate a product’s emotional tone - trust, playfulness, urgency, calm - into visuals that serve that specific context.
• Collaborate with product designers, product managers, and the design team to keep visual language consistent with the brand. •Contribute to and help extend Paytm’s evolving visual systems (illustration, iconography, motion) for use across products.
• Use AI tools as part of your craft process, while maintaining a distinct, non-generic point of view.
• Take feedback, iterate fast, and improve visual quality with every round.

What We’re Looking For

• Final-year student pursuing a degree in Design, Visual Communication, Illustration, Animation, or a related field.
• Strong visual and illustration fundamentals - composition, form, colour, and craft.
• Ability to source references thoughtfully and synthesize them into an original direction, not just imitate them.
• An eye for translating brand identity across different tones and contexts - playful, premium, utilitarian, and beyond.
• Hands-on experience with design/illustration tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar); familiarity with AI tools as part of the workflow.
• Motion & graphics sensibility is a strong plus.
• Curiosity, ownership, and openness to feedback.
• A portfolio with strong visual range and process - show us your references, explorations, and decisions, not just polished final visuals.

Why Join Us?

• Design for real impact Your visuals will live inside a product used at scale.
• Learn from experienced designers Get dedicated mentorship, regular critiques, and feedback.
• Grow through collaboration Work closely with cross-functional teams and learn through continuous 360° feedback.
• Be part of the team Build strong relationships with peers and mentors through ownership, craft and contribution.

How to Apply

Share your resume and portfolio through the application form.

We want to understand how you think.

Show us your process, explorations, decisions, iterations, and final outcomes - not just polished designs.