Designer Intern 2027

About the role

As an Intern Designer at IBM, you'll focus on customer and employee strategies that explore opportunities to improve digital innovation, addressing user needs and designing world-class digital experiences. You'll support uncovering user and business requirements in the context of the technical landscape through applying User Experience, Design Thinking, and Information Architecture methods.

Work Experiences

• Creative Design: Dive into hands-on design work from crafting wireframes and visual interfaces to creating prototypes and annotating wireframes. Collaborate closely with stakeholders to bring new design visions to life.
• User-Centric Research: Support user research using enterprise design thinking and gain hands-on experience to direct user research opportunities, contributing to a deeper understanding of user needs.
• Design Thinking Workshops: Engage in dynamic design workshops with multiple stakeholders, synthesizing their input to articulate conceptual ideas and design rationale for digital experiences.
• Visual Design Innovator: Assist visual design tasks, creating mockups and prototypes from sketches. Collaborate on dynamic human-centered digital solutions aligned with design standards while also contributing to storyboards, impactful presentations, graphics, data visualizations, and other design artifacts for client meetings or product development. Participate in client interactions related to design thinking workshops, amplifying your design impact.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a university degree with a track record of academic success (Preferred majors: UX design or a related field).
• Strong interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship building while also managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment.
• Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to communicate effectively through active listening; willingness to adapt and readiness to take ownership of tasks and challenges.
• Familiarity with storytelling techniques, capable of communicating design approaches and simplifying complex information through clear communications (verbal and visual).
• Willingness to travel up to 100%.

Preferred Qualifications

• University-based design experience with a portfolio representing design artifacts and design process.
• Demonstrates active listening skills with the ability to deliver challenging messages in a positive manner.
• Possesses empathy for users and their needs, humility to recognize the limits of assumptions, and boldness in the conception of solutions.

Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree.