Software Design Placement

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Join IBM. Make an impact.

From helping transform healthcare to improving the retail shopping experience, it's what IBMers do. Our work and our people can be found in all sorts of interesting places. Mathematicians, coders, and web designers contribute to creativity in the kitchen (Watson!), rerouting traffic jams, even designing the next generation fan experience in sports stadiums around the world. It's the kind of thing we've been doing for more than 100 years.

Apple. Twitter. Facebook. Hootsuite. Box. These are just a few of the global partners who work with IBM to develop powerful mobile apps and help enterprises make smarter decisions with data analytics and cloud technology. Join us and be part of a diverse and global team of thinkers and doers – people who want to make an impact, cultivate their expertise and collaborate with some of the world’s top business and technology professionals.

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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