User Research Intern
Coinbase
CA$60 / hour
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Description
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.
As a User Research Intern, you'll join our User Research team to help researchers, designers, and product managers understand user needs across products like Coinbase Cloud and developer tools. You'll tackle complex product problems, craft research reports that drive design and product decisions, and build foundational skills in UX research at scale.
What you'll do:
- Own one or more research projects alongside researchers, designers, and product managers to investigate a product problem or area
- Plan and execute research to solve complex, ambiguous product questions using appropriate methodologies
- Deliver research reports that clearly communicate findings and provide actionable design and product recommendations
- Partner with cross-functional teammates to translate user insights into thoughtful product experiences that help people engage with the crypto economy
Required Skills and Experience:
- Actively pursuing a career in user research through a degree in a research-related field, or equivalent experience
- Working knowledge of general research principles (experimental design, bias, confounds) and UX research principles (usability testing, design thinking)
- Demonstrated ability to communicate research findings clearly, supported by a final report from a past research project (school, bootcamp, or extracurricular) uploaded with your application
- Basic knowledge of cryptocurrency and Coinbase's role in the crypto economy, with interest in learning more
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Req ID: P78018
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- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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About this role
Coinbase's User Research Intern role offers a 12-week summer 2027 position working directly with researchers, designers, and product managers to investigate user needs across crypto products like Coinbase Cloud and developer tools. You'll own research projects from planning through execution, using methodologies appropriate to complex product questions, and deliver reports that translate user insights into actionable recommendations for design and product teams. This is hands-on work at a company that operates with high intensity and refuses incremental thinking.
The role suits someone actively studying research, UX design, or a related field who already grasps research fundamentals—experimental design, bias, usability testing, design thinking—and can communicate findings clearly. You'll need to demonstrate these skills through a past research project (academic, bootcamp, or extracurricular) submitted with your application. Basic familiarity with cryptocurrency and Coinbase's position in the space is expected, along with responsible use of generative AI to enhance your work.
The position is hybrid based in San Francisco, with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions. The hourly rate is $60 USD. This internship suits someone serious about building UX research skills in a high-stakes environment and interested in the intersection of user experience and financial technology.
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