Summer 2027 Visual Design Intern (Hybrid NYC)

IBM; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 139,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Sick time

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

IBM in New York City is offering a Summer 2027 Internship for a Visual Designer to join the Global Markets design and branding efforts. The role blends research, typography, iconography, and UI styling to tell compelling stories about IBM's technologies.

You'll collaborate with strategists, producers, and designers, delivering print to digital assets, contributing to style guides, and ensuring design rationale is communicated clearly.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an accredited University.
• Available for an internship in Summer 2027.
• Rising senior for the 2026-2027 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.
• Basic experience with Figma.

Responsibilities

• Producing deliverables from print to online and multimedia.
• Bringing abstract concepts to life though typography, illustration, iconography and photography.
• Contributing to style guides, UI toolkits, and other design documents, as needed.
• Effectively communicating conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Collaborating 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.
• Preparing, recommending, and testing solutions to help engage IBM audiences through specific messaging, brand & content strategy deliverables.
• Applying deep curiosity to build an understanding of the market, target audiences and IBM's offerings to help create the most compelling messaging and content.

Skills

Figma

Design across media

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Figma

Job description

IBM in New York City is offering a Summer 2027 Internship for a Visual Designer to join the Global Markets design and branding efforts. The role blends research, typography, iconography, and UI styling to tell compelling stories about IBM's technologies.

You'll collaborate with strategists, producers, and designers, delivering print to digital assets, contributing to style guides, and ensuring design rationale is communicated clearly.