2027 Summer Internship: Motion Designer

Job Description

This role is for an internship in Summer 2027, expected to start on Monday, May 24th and end on Friday, August 13th. Candidates must be available for the full duration. At IBM, we believe technology shapes the world, and we are a catalyst for innovation and creativity. As a leader in Hybrid Cloud and AI, we are leading a worldwide digital transformation.

Our Performance Marketing team drives scalable and predictable revenue growth, generating demand for IBM's products and offerings and converting that demand into measurable business impact. As part of our team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators, applying passion to work that compels our audience to choose IBM. When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust, helping technology support positive global transformation.

In this role, you'll work collaboratively to help turn our vast collection of content into an easily understandable system that supports our visitors' key needs. The internship includes educational, networking, and social activities. At the end of the program, you'll showcase your final outcomes to a large audience of leaders, practitioners, and peers. This is a highly visible program with leadership exposure and mentorship throughout the summer.

The motion designer role supports our internal creative team, responsible for the strategic evolution and expression of the IBM brand across every experience. Our work crosses nearly every category of output: research and strategy, communications and content development, symbology and systems, digital and physical experiences, and tools and training. We aim to maintain modernity, sophistication, and tangibility, and promote understanding of the IBM brand.

We are looking for a highly motivated Motion Designer passionate about ideas, brand experience, and design, with a strong attention to strategic, simple, smart design and a keen eye for modernist typography and information design. The right candidate should have conceptual skills with identity systems and experience working across media. Work will include online, digital, data visualization, print, social, video, and events.

Your primary responsibilities

• Execute motion design projects from conception through execution
• Produce deliverables for online and multimedia
• Bring abstract concepts to life through animation, video editing, 3D, and augmented reality
• Understand IBM's business strategies and goals
• Collaborate with the team to support development of integrated brand-to-demand messaging and content plans
• Prepare, recommend, and test solutions to engage IBM audiences through messaging, brand, and content strategy deliverables
• Help lead development and execution of specific elements of the content strategy with our creative partners
• Apply deep curiosity to build understanding of the market, target audiences, and IBM's offerings to create compelling messaging and content

This role is based in New York City, working in a hybrid environment with at least three days per week in the office. This role will be posted until September 25. IBM will not provide Visa sponsorship for these positions now or in the future. Therefore, you must have the ability to work without current or future Visa sponsorship. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J, or TN are not eligible for hire.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an accredited university
• Available for an internship in Summer 2027
• Rising senior for the 2027-2028 school year
• Basic understanding of animation, video effects (VFX), and 3D design experiences
• Portfolio of work demonstrating success in primary responsibilities
• 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 stakeholders, technical teams, partners, and other designers
• Basic experience with Figma
• Able to distinguish good design from bad, careless from well-conceived and crafted
• Able to take direction well and be nimble to extend designs across platforms
• Investigating, innovating, and developing trends in creative with an emphasis on brand experience and design
• Able to visualize and turn concepts into end products
• Able to turn feedback into iteration: accept and act upon creative/technical direction