Early Associate Experience Design Intern (12-Week Summer Internship)

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Design · Intern

London, UK

Posted on Oct 30, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

What this internship is about

Join our consulting team and help shape experiences that people actually enjoy using. This internship gives you the chance to explore how good design improves the way customers, employees and users interact with products and processes.

You’ll join a cohort of interns working in small cross functional teams on real client challenges within one of our consulting sectors. Supported, coached, and mentored by consultants from across the UK business throughout the programme, your team will take ownership of a standalone project, exploring ideas, solving problems and adapting as the work evolves.

Because our projects are collaborative and fast moving, there isn’t one fixed role from day one. Instead, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute in different ways depending on the challenge, the client, your interests and where you can add the most value. Alongside your project work, you’ll gain exposure to different teams, consulting disciplines and ways of working across the IBM organisation.

Whether your interests are in user experience, service design, research, visual communication or creative problem solving, this internship offers hands on experience working as part of a consulting project team.

We work collaboratively in a fast-moving environment, where roles and responsibilities evolve organically based on the needs of each project.

What you might do

• Help gather and organise user or customer insights through research activities

• Support journey mapping, idea generation and creative problem solving

• Participate in workshops, design sessions or collaborative team activities

• Help communicate insights, concepts or findings clearly and visually

• Explore ways to improve customer, employee or digital experiences

• Contribute ideas to improve services, processes or user interactions

• Present findings, concepts or recommendations in engaging and accessible ways

Your experience will vary depending on the project, giving you the opportunity to learn from different people, approaches and ways of working.

What you’ll get

• Hands on experience working on a real consulting project from start to finish

• Exposure to experience design, research and collaborative ways of working

• Opportunities to learn from consultants across different teams and disciplines

• Mentoring, coaching and support from consultants, buddies and early careers teams

• A collaborative environment where creativity, curiosity and initiative are encouraged

• A clearer sense of whether a career in experience design or consulting is right for you

If you’re excited by creativity, collaboration and solving real world problems, we’d love to see your application.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Who you are

• Students due to graduate in 2027 or 2028

• Already able to work in the UK (no visa sponsorship available)

• Studying a design related degree

• Able to provide a portfolio showcasing your work, ideas or creative process

• Curious about people, design and user experiences

• Creative thinker who can communicate ideas clearly and visually

• Collaborative, adaptable and open to feedback

• Interested in problem solving and user centred thinking

• Excited to learn new tools, approaches and ways of working

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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