SAP Signavio Intern (fmd) Product Designer

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What Youll Build

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAPs global strategic paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers. This is more than an internship; its the foundation for a career built on connection creativity and impact.

Position title: SAP Signavio Intern (f/m/d) Product Designer
Location: Berlin Germany
Internship duration: 6 months

Youll work on cross-product UX consistency initiatives across SAP Signavios Process Intelligence suite contributing to systematic design pattern development large-scale UX audits and AI-assisted design workflows with impact across SAPs Process Intelligence suite.

Your work will directly standardize patterns across SAPs Process Intelligence suite used by thousands of enterprise users. Youll eliminate systemic UX debt create design system contributions and build AI-assisted tooling that enables designers to self-serve compliance with SAP Fiori guidelines.

Youll work directly with the Product Design Architect as your mentor and supervisor. Youll collaborate with:

• Design System team: Contributing patterns to shared component libraries
• Cross-functional designers: Presenting work and gathering feedback

This is a mentorship-focused internship with 1:1s weekly and continuous feedback. Youll have autonomy over your projects while receiving guidance on systematic design thinking and enterprise UX methodology.

Youll gain expertise in:

• Enterprise design systems: SAP Fiori design guidelines UI5 Web Components integration cross-product pattern standardization
• UX auditing methodology: Systematic violation taxonomy large-scale screen inventory risk-based prioritization wave-based remediation planning
• AI-augmented design workflows: Claude Code for design automation and compliance checking Figma MCP integration for programmatic design generation prompt engineering for AI-assisted design review
• Collaboration & impact: Working with design and cross-functional teams presenting pattern proposals measuring design system adoption technical documentation writing

What Youll Bring

Were looking for someone who takes the initiative perseveres and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

Educational requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a university program in Design Human-Computer Interaction Interaction Design Visual Communication or related field

Experience level and background:

• Demonstrable Figma experience (personal projects coursework or professional work)
• Understanding of design systems concepts (components variants reusability consistency)
• Interest in enterprise software or B2B products (experience not required but curiosity essential)
• Exposure to systematic problem-solving or research methodologies

Essential (must-have):

• Figma fluency: Comfortable with components variants auto-layout constraints design systems
• Claude Code familiarity: Experience using Claude Code OR willingness to learn quickly during first week
• Design systems mindset: Understanding of reusable patterns component libraries design tokens

Nice-to-have (bonus):

• Basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge
• Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG)
• Prior work with enterprise design systems or component libraries
• Portfolio showcasing systematic design thinking (case studies research audits)

Soft skills:

• Systematic thinking: Ability to identify patterns categorize problems structure complex information
• Pragmatic execution: Ship working solutions iterate based on feedback focus on impact over perfection
• Curiosity about why: Question patterns understand constraints reconcile conflicts between competing guidelines
• Collaboration over ego: Best ideas win regardless of source open to feedback comfortable with ambiguity
• Documentation discipline: Clear written communication organized note-taking if its not written down it doesnt exist
• Comfort with technology: Not intimidated by AI tools or technical workflows eager to learn new systems

Language requirements:

• English: Fluent (C1-C2 level) all work is conducted in English

Working from Berlin office is required

• Hybrid/onsite work required 1-2 days per week in Berlin office. Remote-only not available for this position due to collaborative nature of design challenge work and cross-team coordination.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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. Youll 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.
3. 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.

We value pragmatic execution over perfect documentation systematic thinking over ad-hoc fixes and collaboration over individual heroics. We ship working tools not just planning documents. We believe in if its not written down it doesnt exist and maintain high documentation standards. Were pioneers in AI-assisted design workflows and comfortable with experimentation and continuous improvement.

Youll thrive if you:

• Love solving puzzles and finding patterns in chaos
• Get excited about building tools that scale design work across an organization
• Enjoy the challenge of reconciling competing constraints (business needs technical feasibility design principles)
• Want to work at the intersection of design and technology
• Appreciate both the creative and systematic sides of design work
• Are comfortable saying I dont know let me research that rather than guessing

We work through:

• Async collaboration via Figma comments and Slack (default mode)
• Twice-weekly 1:1s with your mentor for deep dives and feedback
• Weekly design review sessions with broader team
• Cross-functional partnerships with Design System and Engineering teams
• Open documentation culture all specs findings and decisions captured in markdown and Figma

During your 6 months youll progress from learning SAP Fiori guidelines (Week 1) to owning full project workstreams (Months 2-6). Youll build:

• Portfolio case studies: Document your systematic approach to enterprise design challenges
• Published tools: Create Claude Code skills or Figma components used by other designers
• Technical skills: Master Figma API learn UI5 Web Components architecture develop AI prompting expertise
• Career pathways: Exposure to Product Designer Design System Designer and Design Technologist roles with potential for return offer or full-time conversion based on performance

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Requisition ID: 456170 Work Area: Software-User Experience Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Student Employment Type: Limited Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Required Experience:

Intern

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1