SAP iXp Intern - UX Research & Design

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What you’ll do

 

Position title: SAP iXp Intern – UX Research & Design

Location: Palo Alto, CA / Hybrid

Expected Start: October 2025

Duration: 6 Months

 

We’re currently looking for a highly skilled UX Researcher and Designer to join our Innovation team.

In this role you will help design prototypes that demonstrate our UX concepts and conduct research to help answer questions about the design, usability, and feasibility of our ideas

Tasks will involve:

• Designing user studies both qualitative and quantitative
• Writing questionnaires
• Planning quick turn-around impactful studies
• Work well with incomplete information
• Summarizing results in both PPT decks and high level reports for management and cross-group teams
• Bring related research to our attention

You must be an effective communicator, quick to learn new tools and systems, and flexible in the face of change

 

What you 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.

 

• Education : Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, UX/UI or a related field.

• Eligibility : Must be currently enrolled, or recently graduated (start date must be within 6 months of graduation date) from a coding academy/bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor’s, master’s or JD/PhD program.

• Experience collaborating with UX, Product, marketing, and software partners.

• Experience conducting UX research including both quantitative and qualitative methods

• Experience determining the appropriate UX research method for a given situation

• UX ideation, refinement, and iteration on prototype

• Experience using design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe creative suite, etc. to then build more substantial prototypes

• Understanding use of rapid prototyping

• Be a team player and be able to present ideas clearly to the group

 

Meet your team:

 

SAP Innovation Center Network team shapes the next generation of enterprise software by exploring new technologies and developing bold prototypes. We are global organization, located close to SAP’s main product development hubs.

 

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Requisition ID: 435311 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid