Software Design Placement

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About IBM

IBM is one of the world’s leading consulting and technology companies. For over 100 years, we have been at the forefront of technology creating innovative solutions and products that have transformed our planet. Working with IBM you’ll have unmatched opportunities to do meaningful work such as helping doctors develop personalized, more effective treatments for cancer, improving energy production, easing traffic congestion and finding smarter ways to manage the world’s water supply.

If you’re looking to take a year out as part of your degree, we genuinely believe you’ll find it hard to top IBM’s University Placement Scheme. It’s much more than just getting a great name on your CV. It will be a challenging and fun year which will give you twelve months to start building the future you want.

Software Design Placement

Joining us as a software designer you’ll get to work in one of the largest software development companies in the world. Our designers conceive and articulate the future of IBM’s entire portfolio of products, ranging from software and hardware to consulting.

Inside of the software design team you’ll get to work as a User Experience Designers crafting intuitive interactions and workflows informed by market and user research. User Experience Researchers will specialise in discovering, analysing, and communicating user needs and evaluating user experiences. Visual Designers will use their expertise in designing visual communication, layout, typography, colour, etc. to elicit emotional connections and intuitive, intelligent responses from our audience. Front End Developers will use their expertise in front-end programming, mobile platforms and web markup, to quickly prototype a working model of the assets and ideas generated by Visual Designers, User Experience Designers and Researchers. You could complete a placement in any one of these areas depending on where you feel you’ll best fit.

We recruit from all degree backgrounds, all you’ll need is to show a keen interest in the technology and be working towards a 2:1 in your degree.

When you join IBM we recruit you as an employee not as a student, we invest in you from the very beginning giving you responsibility and the training to get your career of to the best possible start. On our scheme you’ll get paid £15,000 a year plus a £1000 signing bonus and if you’re living in London we’ll give you an extra £3,000. To save you the cost of buying your own we’ll provide you with a free IBM laptop as well as a host of corporate discounts and 25 days holiday. Not bad ay?

So if you think you’ve got what it takes to be an IBMer check out our careers website and get that application ball rolling. We’ll be waiting to hear from you.

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