Product Designer (UX/UI/Electronics) Internship

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

About the role

CXSD, Customer Experience and Solution Design team at Roche Diagnostics, is looking for a passionate Product Designer Intern with knowledge of Graphical User Interface Design, Industrial Design and Arduino/Electronics.

As a Product Designer Intern, you will support product design teams on different projects and design tasks. You will learn how senior designers translate business/technical requirements and user needs into design decisions. You will experience how to navigate and apply a complex design system to Graphical User Interfaces. You will grasp how to design for customer centricity by validating your design output through continuous user testing.

Last but not least, you will be part of a design team of more than 80 professionals who aim to transform the healthcare industry for the better.

Who you are

• EU/EFTA Students: You are currently enrolled in your Bachelor's studies or a Master’s program in Computer Science, UX design, HCID, visual design or technical science or similar 

• Non-EU/EFTA students: Due to regulations, you have to provide a certificate from the university stating that an internship is mandatory and upload it together with your application documents. Furthermore, you have to be enrolled during the entire internship period.

• You have experience with Figma (showcasing a project is required)

• You have experience with Arduino and processing (showcasing a project is required)

• You have skills in design for User Experience, User Interfaces and User Interaction with hardware and software projects, 

• You know how to use design systems and design tokens, e.g. Material Design

• You are fluent in English

What you will do

• Working on projects with focus on making healthcare professionals work life more safe and easy

• Building and orchestrating user experiences beyond screens

• Being involved in ideating, building, iterating and preparing user experiences until hand-over stage for engineers to integrate it in a product

• Support usability testings with planning, preparation, conducting and analyzing activities

• Learn how to involve different persons from business roles to engineering to test participants and more to build the best UX ever

• Building software and Arduino prototypes

• Joining a highly motivated and very kind team

• There will be at least one business trip to DE

We are looking forward to receiving your portfolio and CV. 

The internship will take place in Rotkreuz.

The preferred start date of the internship is November 2024 or upon availability for 6 months (with the possibility to be extended to a total of 12 months).

This internship is not suitable for a Master's thesis.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Diagnostics International in Rotkreuz is a leading provider of diagnostic systems solutions, and the largest manufacturer of fully automated in vitro diagnostic systems in Switzerland. We are more than 2’700 passionate colleagues from over 65 nationalities. Find out more about our site in Central Switzerland, here.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

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