Description

Introduction

IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments, the explosion of data, digital automation, and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure that only IBM can provide.

Your ability to be creative, a forward-thinker and to focus on innovation that matters, is all support by our growth minded culture as we continue to drive career development across our teams. Collaboration is key to IBM Infrastructure success, as we bring together different business units and teams that balance their priorities in a way that best serves our client's needs.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for Product Designers to join our global design organization and help build intuitive, accessible, and visually engaging experiences for storage products. In this role, you will collaborate with designers, researchers, developers, and product managers to translate user insights into thoughtful interfaces that empower users to work smarter. You will contribute across the full design lifecycle, creating patterns, prototypes, and polished design assets that support innovative enterprise solutions.

What You'll Do:
• Transform research insights into wireframes, workflows, and development-ready
prototypes.
• Create high-fidelity mockups, visual assets, icons, and design patterns that bring
clarity and delight to user interfaces.
• Contribute to the evolution of design systems, patterns, and best practices.
• Work closely with developers to ensure feasibility and consistency across experiences.
• Design end-to-end scenarios, flows, and interactions for complex business processes.
• Participate in design critiques, provide constructive feedback, and iterate based on input.
• Understand user and business context to ensure design decisions support product
goals.
• Collaborate with research, content design, engineering, and product teams.
• Plan and facilitate virtual or in-person Design Thinking workshops.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Human-Centered Design: Familiarity with design principles that prioritize user needs and emotions in the creation of products and services.
• Experience with User Research Methods: Knowledge of research methods and facilitation techniques to explore user needs and uncover emotional connections with products and services.
• Understanding of Emotional Design: Awareness of how to craft emotional design through the influence of visceral impact, behavioral influence, and reflective consequence.
• Familiarity with Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Exposure to working with various stakeholders to ensure design solutions meet user needs and business goals.
• Basic Understanding of Design Principles: Knowledge of design principles that balance practical and aesthetic considerations in the creation of products and services.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Ability to solve user experience challenges using mockups, prototypes, and interaction patterns.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Mural, Adobe Creative Cloud, or
similar.
• Strong visual design skills, including typography, layout, and color theory.
• Understanding of accessibility, responsive design, and modern design principles.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills in a dynamic team environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating UI/UX thinking and visual design work.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Entry Level Designer 2026

Date posted

13-Mar-2026

Job ID

103020

City / Township / Village

Austin

State / Province

Texas

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Design & UX

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

100,800.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

151,200.00

Position type

Entry Level

Travel required

Up to 100% or 5 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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