User Experience Design Intern

About This Role

As a User Experience Design Intern, you will apply a user-centered perspective to your work, advocating for the customer or end-user in all interactions. You will focus on meeting individual and team objectives, learning your craft, and contributing to research, design, and/or content support of an IBM Z product.

Responsibilities

• Focus on meeting individual and team objectives
• Learn your craft and contribute to research, design, and/or content support of a product
• Learn about IBM, IBM Design practices, and the impact of content in the user experience
• Concentrate efforts around a single product with guidance from a senior team member
• Contribute to the design community and larger content ecosystem by supporting community activities, sharing, learning, or maintaining community operations

Requirements

• Actively enrolled in college/university
• Creativity and flexibility to adapt to new scenarios
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's degree in Technical Communications or Design, including Design & Technology, UX Design, Software Product & Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), UX Research, Information Experience Design, Game Design, Human Factors, Usability, or Ethnography, or a Software or Computer Systems Engineering degree with a minor in Communications, Design or completion of a certificate program in Design.
• Actively enrolled in college/university, with demonstrated knowledge of User Experience design

Nice to Have

• Experience working on enterprise information technology (business to business), and enterprise technology personas or archetypes
• Experience with Enterprise Design Thinking by IBM or other design thinking frameworks
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, confident working within a cross-functional team and various levels
• Familiarity with IBM Z product stack
• Ability to perform UX research for software products or Web
• Experience developing, editing, and producing accurate technical documentation using XML, DITA and shared source repositories such as GitHub
• Knowledge of Native AI solutions for creating structured content

Skills

* Required skills