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Position title: SAP iXp Intern - Design Practice & Special Projects, Consumer Industries
Location: Hybrid - Newport Beach
Expected start date to end date: December 2025 / January 2026
Duration: 6 - 12 months
Working hours: Full time 40 hrs./week
- Support the design team’s day-to-day work such as setting up workshops, planning team building activities, PowerPoint presentations, and maintaining wiki pages
- Help develop project timelines, track progress, and ensure deadlines are met
- Support user research efforts with recruiting and payment of participants, helping with research plans, analysis and synthesis, assisting with maintenance of research artifacts and adherence to standard formats and frameworks
- Assist team members with mockups and design prototypes from low to high fidelity as needed
- Support video creation for internal and external projects, such as product pitch videos, enablement sessions, and concept explaners
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.
- Pursuing or a recent graduate of a college degree program, our program can hire within 6 months after graduation
- Ability to show examples of your work in the interview process whether via a portfolio or other type of presentation
- Proactive self-starter that can navigate through ambiguity
- Solid organizational, analytical and time management skills
- Experience with modern design tools such as Figma and Mural
- Understanding of user experience design, user research and synthesis methodologies
- Ablity to work a hybrid schedule in the office three days a week
Where You Belong
Be part of SAP Next Gen, a global community for students, universities, schools and educational partners, who are passionate about innovation and technology
- Culture of Collaboration: Partner with experienced SAP colleagues and expert mentors who will support your growth. Grow professionally through personalized mentoring, coaching, and career development support.
- Project-driven Experience: Kickstart your career with hands-on learning experience, making an impact from day one by contributing to meaningful projects that help the world run better. You’ll have endless learning resources at your fingertips and gain future-ready skills from a variety of virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning sessions, cultivated just for you, and aligned with our learning approach.
- Gain Visibility: Build relationships with leaders and peers across teams and functions. Showcase your ideas, skills, and creativity in a global, fast-paced environment. Open doors for future career opportunities within SAP and beyond.
Consumer Industries is hiring an Intern to assist with various special projects to help keep the entire UX team running smoothly. The intern will be a member of the user experience team working on a variety of projects across ux design, ux research and team operations. We are looking for someone that takes initiative and has strong organizational skills. This is a hybrid role, spending three days a week in our beautiful Newport Beach, CA office collaborating with our team.
You will have the opportunity to partner closely with other UX designers, product managers, engineers, and business experts across the various life cycles of products. You’ll collaborate with multi-disciplinary team members around the world and get exposure to other product areas in SAP. You will gain experience inside a global enterprise product organization, how design works with product & engineering.
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SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
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Requisition ID: 438824 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
