Stryker
Industrial Design - User Experience Intern - Portage, MI
Portage, Michigan · Intern · Internship
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About the role
- We focus on understanding the challenges faced by doctors, nurses and patients, and then ideate and visualize products and user scenarios that solve those problems.
- Articulate Visual Communicators Designers who express ideas clearly through sketches, prototypes, storytelling, and supportive visuals.
- Dedicated Achievers Students with strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a passion for making healthcare better.
Responsibilities
- Design & Concept Development
- Create early-stage concepts through sketching, 2D visualization, and physical or digital prototyping.
- User-Centered Design Research‑Centered Design Research
- Support research activities including trend reviews, ergonomic analysis, and capturing user insights.
- Work closely with designers, engineers, marketing, and human factors partners to advance project goals.
- Contribute to design reviews through compelling visual and verbal communication.
- Support creation of presentations, storyboards, diagrams, and visual assets articulating design intent.
- Produce sketches, mockups, CAD studies, and visual prototypes to support concept development.
- A portfolio demonstrating creativity, process thinking, and design fundamentals.
- Growth in technical skills, communication, design process knowledge, and professional confidence.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
- experience with Rhino, SolidWorks, Creo, or similar tools preferred.
Compensation
- $20 min hourly wage - $35 max hourly wage, sign-on bonus, 11 paid holidays annually, and either paid corporate housing or a living stipend, dependent upon hiring location
Benefits
- As an Industrial Design Intern at Stryker, you will support a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, researchers, and marketers focused on creating innovative, human-centered medical offerings.
- Students with strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a passion for making healthcare better.
- Hands-on experience contributing to real medical device product development.
- Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.
Company info
- Work Flexibility: Onsite SUMMARY The Acute Care Industrial and User Experience Designers are at the forefront of creating products that ensure that the user-centric needs of our customers are applied to our products and user interfaces.
- The Acute Care Industrial and User Experience Designers are at the forefront of creating products that ensure that the user-centric needs of our customers are applied to our products and user interfaces.
Equal opportunity
- Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
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