WE HELP THE WORLD RUN BETTER

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!

ABOUT THE SAP INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE PROGRAM

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

THREE REASONS TO INTERN AT SAP

1. CULTURE OF COLLABORATION: meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.
2. PROJECT-DRIVEN EXPERIENCE: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables. 
3. GAIN VISIBILITY: with SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

ABOUT THE TEAM

SAP is currently looking for a UX Research Intern to work with the New Ventures Studio team. The New Ventures studio empowers small, entrepreneurial teams inside SAP to turn innovative ideas into profitable businesses. Corporate venturing allows the combination of an entrepreneurial approach with the unique strengths of one of the market leaders in enterprise software applications.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

Position title: SAP Venture Studio iXp Intern – UX Research Intern

Location: Palo Alto, California (Hybrid)

Expected start date: July 2022

Duration: 40hours/week

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL:

You will be challenged with conducting a variety of explorations using human gestures and position to interact with wall-projected SAP data sets. You will be responsible for making recommendations for the most effective and relevant data to use to impact visitors. The goal is to show animating SAP data sets. Our need is to make the most compelling data set interactive, by visitors standing and moving within a defined data space.

As a UX Research and data insights Intern you will be partnering with a creative technologist and researcher to impact efforts that will highlight strategic direction across the Venture Studio data sets to be installed in the lobby of Building 1. You will need to collaborate with cross-disciplinary team members to conduct user research to try out the ideas and use different data sets to evaluate what are the most effective data sets, gestures and movements. You must be able to work and adapt to a fluid, fast-paced environment and have strong technical, communication, and collaboration skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define user-research plans and applying research methods to best address research questions
• Design and conduct light weight user interaction to support casual human interactions using core natural gestures
• Implement Kinect to ‘sense’ position and gestures to interact with different data sets
• Present visual and actionable research findings to a variety of audiences
• Collaborate with UX designers to iteratively design solutions that satisfy installation goals

WHO YOU ARE:

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stay curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Working towards a BS in Computer Science, or Computer Human Interface, or related field
• Ability to use standard research tools such as: MS Outlook, MS Teams, MS Word, MS Excel, SurveyMonkey, Figma, Miro, Zoom, Kinect etc.
• Basic knowledge of a broad set of research methods, e.g., interviews, surveys, usability evaluations,, online tracking experiments, log-analytic studies, and quantitative analyses.
• A passion and capacity to advocate on behalf of our users.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to quickly acquire knowledge about various and varied domain technology, goals, & use cases
• Ability to fluidly learn and apply knowledge to functionality etc. of product concepts and/or products to be researched.

To apply, please attach your resume and portfolio.

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WE BUILD BREAKTHROUGHS TOGETHER

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

WE WIN WITH INCLUSION

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com. For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/VET/DISABILITY:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID: 346887  | Work Area: Administration  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Student  | Employment Type: Intern   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid

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