Product Designer Intern

Introduction

Join the IBM Research design team and help create compelling content that showcases world-changing innovation across IBM Research's four strategic pillars:
Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Hybrid Cloud, and Semi Conductors. You will collaborate with researchers, marketers, and designers to develop visual storytelling, digital content, and creative assets that communicate breakthrough discoveries and technologies to global audiences.

As an intern, you will support the design team in creating digital, print, and presentation assets. Assist with concept development, visual design execution, and maintaining brand consistency across projects. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute creative ideas throughout the design process.

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

• Great attention to detail and a strong eye for visual craft, such as composition, typography, and layout.
• Fluency in interaction design and prototyping, to express and refine nuanced design decisions.
• A track record of independently driving design processes from discovery through launch-balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.
• The ability to guide decision-making with structured thinking, clearly articulated rationale, and user-centered research.
• Experience researching, prototyping, or building products with AI and other emerging tools to uncover new patterns for creativity and collaboration.

• A design/development hybrid background, or experience building websites or apps.
• A history of working on canvas-based interfaces or tools that support creative workflows.
• Prior work involving design systems, like creating, maintaining, or contributing to a design system.

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing.

Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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