2025 Intern - Designer

Introduction
Uncover and transform insights into creative experiences that matter to your customers. Make every touchpoint an opportunity to engage. As a Marketing Professional at IBM, you will create stories that cut through noise and have an impact on your audience. IBM is trailblazing the Agile Marketing approach, allowing you to work with speed, adaptability and creativity to uncover insights and deliver experiences that matter to your customers.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Start and end dates for this internship are during Summer 2025.

At IBM, we believe technology shapes the world, and we are a catalyst for innovation and creativity. We are at the forefront of groundbreaking change - improving businesses, society, and the human condition. As a leader in Hybrid Cloud and AI, we are leading the charge in a worldwide digital transformation.

Our Marketing, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC) team tells this story and is responsible for positioning IBM in the market. We define and optimize IBM's brand, capture the market's attention, and articulate our point of view for clients, partners, the media, and even other IBMers. As part of our team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators - always willing to help and be helped - as you apply passion to work that will compel our audience to choose IBM's products and services.

When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. You join a team of IBMers who are helping technology support a positive global transformation. So join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.

As an IBM Marketing Intern, you'll work collaboratively, driving work that addresses a strategic business challenge facing our team: helping to turn our vast collection of content into an easily understandable system that supports our visitors' key needs. In addition to your daily work, the internship includes educational, networking, and social activities. This is a highly visible intern program with leadership exposure and mentorship throughout the summer.

This role supports our internal creative team, Blue Studio, which is responsible for the strategic evolution and expression of the IBM brand across every experience and encounter, internally and externally. Our work crosses nearly every category of output: research and strategy, communications and content development, symbology and systems, digital and physical experiences, and tools and training. Our goal is to maintain modernity, sophistication, and tangibility, and to promote understanding of the IBM brand in the world.
The Blue Studio design practice is looking for a highly motivated Designer who is passionate about ideas, brand experience and design, and looking to work with like-minded people. The professional must have a strong attention towards strategic, simple, smart design, and a keen eye for a modernist approach to typography and information design. The right candidate should have conceptual skills with identity systems, and experience working across media. Work will include a range of assets and projects, including online, digital, data visualization, print, social, video, and events.

Your primary responsibilities will be to help:

• Produce deliverables from print to online and multimedia
• Bring abstract concepts to life though typography, illustration, iconography and photography
• Contribute to style guides, UI toolkits, and other design documents, as needed
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually
• Collaborate with the team to support development of integrated brand-to-demand messaging and content plans that deliver the right content, at the right time, to the right audiences and drive the right outcomes
• Prepare, recommend and test solutions to help engage IBM audiences through specific messaging, brand & content strategy deliverables
• Apply deep curiosity to build an understanding of the market, target audiences and IBM's offerings to help create the most compelling messaging and content

This role is based in Austin, TX.

IBM will not be providing Visa sponsorship for these positions now or in the future. Therefore, to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future Visa sponsorship.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Currently enrolled in an accredited University
• Available for an internship in Summer 2025
• Rising senior for the 2025-2026 school year
• Basic design experience across media
• Portfolio of work demonstrating success in primary responsibilities for the role
• Passionate about problem solving and idea generation
• Actively seek feedback and review of work
• Being passionate, confident, empathetic, positive and approachable
• Attention-to-detail, strong organizational skills, and strong time management
• Collaboration with others-stakeholders, technical teams, partners and other designers

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Basic experience with Figma
• Able to distinguish good design from bad, careless from well-conceived and crafted
• Able to take direction well and be nimble to extend designs across platforms
• Investigating, innovating, and developing trends in creative with an emphasis on brand experience and design
• Able to visualize and turn concepts into end products
• Able to turn feedback into iteration: accept and act upon creative/technical direction