INTRODUCTION

We are seeking a passionate and dynamic designer to intern with our team of researchers, designers, and writers crafting an end-to-end experience for IBM Research.

Our design team elevates every part of the IBM Research journey. We've developed a distinct brand expression that you will learn and contribute to. You will work closely with our design team and other internal partners to heighten the impact of amazing work produced by our research staff members and leadership.

Everything you create builds upon the core story of IBM Research: Inventing What's Next. You know good design from bad, and great design from good.

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The IBM Research Brand Experience Design organization creates a quality, differentiated, end-to-end experience for IBM Research. The team crafts every experience and encounter, internally and externally, and our work crosses nearly every category of output: research and strategy, communications, content development, symbology and systems, web and digital experiences, tools and training, and physical spaces. These experiences succeed only when they are immaculately crafted-excellent design is critical to everything we do. This is your domain. You will play a critical role in shaping key IBM Research web experiences and interactions, and you will learn from a team of experienced brand designers how to develop superb deliverables.

This role is based in the New York City area or Cambridge, MA with opportunities for remote work. The Design Intern is passionate about ideas, branded experiences, and sophisticated design. You have a strong inclination towards strategic, simple, smart design, and a keen eye for a modernist approach to typography, information design and motion graphics. The right candidate can work across digital media-web, environmental, social, product, and animation, as well as conceptual skills with identity design, iconography, and brand systems. You are eager to learn when faced with a challenge they can't solve on their own.

You will primarily contribute to IBM Research's digital experiences and website while applying creative thinking as they work closely with writers, editors, developers, and individual research teams.

We expect the Design Intern to:

The role will consist primarily of brand and visual design, as well as digital media creation. You will support the the vision of the Creative Director as well as that of the broader Brand Experience Design organization.

• Push the envelope. We're always learning how to do our jobs better. Apply your unique experience and perspective to develop new and novel ways to face challenges and develop our visual identity.
• Develop and maintain a strategic awareness of the broader IBM Research mission-Inventing What's Next in hybrid cloud, AI, quantum, and science.
• Ensure your design contributions adhere to the IBM Design Language and align with the unique expression of IBM Research.
• Collaborate with stakeholders when necessary to ensure a consistent and high quality brand experience

REQUIRED TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

• You can distinguish good design from bad, and great design from good.
• Experience designing dynamic experiences across digital media.
• Experience creating basic animations and/or motion graphics.
• The ability to understand and apply grids, typography, graphic design, color, layout, iconography, imagery, and design patterns and systems to address ambiguous, complex problems and projects.
• Actively seek feedback and review of work; accept and act upon creative/technical direction.
• Work well in a fast-paced environment, inspiring and motivating their team.
• Readdress change with flexibility and ease.
• You collaborate well with others (e.g., stakeholders, technical teams).

PREFERRED TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

• Previous experience working on a design team.

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.