About Chiblu
Chiblu is India's marketplace for makers — small businesses, artists, and craft brands selling directly to buyers.
About the role
We're growing fast, and design has been the single biggest gap on the team. Today, every screen — buyer flows, seller dashboard, mobile apps, marketing pages — has been built by engineers making judgment calls without a designer in the room. We're looking for a sharp, curious design intern to start fixing this.
You'll work across Chiblu's full product surface — buyer and seller experiences on the marketplace and mobile apps, plus the design of how we use AI agents in our day-to-day operations.
This is a hands-on role with direct founder access, real ownership of what gets shipped, and a possible path to a longer engagement if it works out. If you've got taste, hunger, and care about Indian users — read on.
What you'll do
- Design end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile
- Run user research and turn insights into shipped designs
- Build and maintain our design system in Figma
- Work directly with the founder on prioritization and trade-offs
Must have
- Portfolio link (Behance, Dribbble, personal site, Notion — anywhere) with at least 3 real projects showing end-to-end thinking
- Figma proficiency
- Clear design thinking — you can articulate WHY behind decisions, not just WHAT
- Visual taste / craft — typography, color, hierarchy, attention to detail
- Strong communication skills — you'll explain decisions to non-designers daily
- Ownership mindset — you figure things out; you don't wait to be told what to do
Nice to have
- Indian craft / D2C / marketplace context — designs informed by Indian users, not just Western SaaS patterns
- Design system experience — tokens, component libraries, naming conventions
- A personal site you built yourself (ideally designed yourself too)
Portfolio expectations
Show us:
- At least one end-to-end project (problem → research → design → final outcome)
- A mobile app flow (even just screen-by-screen mockups)
- Something that demonstrates your visual taste — typography, color, hierarchy
- Bonus: anything designed for an Indian audience or a real shipped product (not just school assignments)
What you'll learn
- Designing for India's diverse user base — low-end Android, multiple languages, slow internet, payment friction
- Founder-led design — fast feedback loops, no committee, real decisions
- End-to-end ownership across web, mobile, and AI workflows
- How marketplace economics shapes design decisions
- Real metrics ownership: you'll see daily numbers and own them
How to apply
Apply via Wellfound or email apply@chiblu.com with:
- Your portfolio link (this is the most important part — without it we can't review)
- A short note on why this role excites you (3-5 lines is enough)
- One project from your portfolio you'd want to walk us through, and why
- Your earliest start date
We read every application personally. Looking forward to hearing from you.