A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey

Your role and responsibilities

About the team

HashiCorp helps organizations automate multi-cloud and hybrid environments with Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management. Vault is HashiCorp’s multi-cloud security platform. Vault’s core use cases are in Secrets Lifecycle Management, Encryption, and Access/Identity Management. Its enterprise users are some of the world's largest finance, healthcare, and technology companies. The Vault product design team is passionate about helping our customers reduce the risk of data exposure and security breaches.

As a Product Design Intern working on Vault, you’ll join a group of talented product designers who are designing and delivering a best-in-class experience for secrets management. You’ll collaborate tightly with designers, engineers, and product managers across our globally distributed team to act on high-priority roadmap initiatives. You’ll be one part of a close-knit team of product designers working on Vault, and a much larger community of designers working across Hashicorp’s Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, and Security products.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners on user experience challenges.
Distill complex user flows into simple and efficient experiences
Contribute to discovery and user research efforts involving technical users
Collaborate on a growing design system to share patterns across HashiCorp tools
Receive mentorship on any areas of growth you’re looking for, and share your own expertise in areas of strength you bring to the team

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

Are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s in HCI, Design, Computer Science, or equivalent

training in the United States and returning back to school following completion of this internship.

Have a product design portfolio with case studies and/or student projects
Have academic or professional experience working in a corporate environment
Are comfortable working with highly technical team members and end users alike
Have familiarity with or interest in information security and developer experience
Proficient in designing and prototyping in Figma
Familiar with user research methods (remote user testing, survey research,

usability testing, field research)

Preferred technical and professional experience

Have strong written and verbal communication skills
Have the constant desire to grow, learn, and explore new things

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

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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 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.

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This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
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