Product/Industrial Designer in Cambridge

Innovia Technology has an exciting opportunity for an undergraduate or graduate student with a background in Product/Industrial Design to join our team for a 12 months paid internship to apply their skills to innovation consultancy and work on varied and creative projects at our Cambridge UK offices.

About Innovia

Innovia Technology makes innovation breakthroughs happen for the world\’s leading companies. We solve complex innovation challenges and create new opportunities so our clients can outperform competitors and change the world for good.
Our clients include Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, LEGO, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Haleon, IWC Schaffhausen, Kenvue, Kraft Heinz, and The North Face. Clients work with Innovia Technology because our work leads to products and services that customers prefer – reaching markets faster and more efficiently than any realistic alternative.

What you\’ll get

You\’ll join our holistic project teams, with specialists in backgrounds such as product design, organic chemistry, public health, theoretical physics, chemical engineering or veterinary medicine, to collaborate and work on the most demanding of challenges. You\’ll get an opportunity to greatly expand your thinking, gain insights into various industries and fields and see how they collaborate in a holistic project setting. We\’ll offer you training to make it easier to bridge the gap between studying and working as a Design intern.

Key Activities

As an Intern, you will spend most of your time providing a design perspective on innovation challenges. You\’ll typically work on 2-3 projects at once, and the nature of these projects can be remarkably varied, but here is a list of key activities you will likely be performing:
– Applying the design process and your creativity to a wide range of innovation challenges.
– Working in truly multi-disciplinary teams to solve broad and complex problems.
– Identifying insights and translating them into desirable, feasible and viable ideas.
– Structuring inspiring narratives to communicate ideas and inform client teams.
– Bringing ideas to life through CAD, prototyping, renders, Vizcom, Photoshop and Illustrator.
– Supporting sales and marketing activities.

What We\’re Looking For

It is important that you:
– Must have completed the second year of your undergraduate degree (Graduates considered).
– Have strong design skills and are able to apply the design process to a wide range of problems.
– Are keen to work in a professional, dynamic office and client focussed environment.
– Have a strong interest in collaborative teamwork and have good communication skills.
– Are a fast learner, who is keen to jump into the deep-end of projects.
– Excellent time mangament, able to take responsibility for your own workload and deadlines.
– Excel in the Adobe suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign). Experience in other relevant design programmes, Vizcom, Solidworks, Keyshot, Figma, Premier Pro, etc is a bonus.
– Committed to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive, collaborative work culture.

Important Practical Considerations

Office attendance: Our internship is a full-time role undertaken in-person at our Cambridge, UK offices.
Remote working: Unfortunately, this internship opportunity is not suitable for applicants who wish to work remotely.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Tech: We use Macbook laptops and this will be provided for you on your first day.
Applications deadline: Applications close on Saturday, 28 February 2026
Interview timelines: Interviews will take place in March and April 2026
Offers: Decision making and offer stage in April 2026
Internship duration: 12 months
Provisional start date: flexible, August/September 2026
Right to work: The successful candidate must, by the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK.
Visa sponsorship: Innovia Technology cannot sponsor visas for candidates for the Intern role as it will not meet the Home Office\’s eligibility criteria.
Post-internship references: Innovia Technology provides short form references. It confirms that an intern worked at Innovia Technology, their job title, and the dates of their employment. It does not provide any details about your performance, projects or duties, salary, sickness/absence record.
Confidentiality: Our clients trust us to work on their most complex and challenging projects. As a Design Intern, you\’ll be working directly on commercially sensitive projects. You will need to maintain confidentiality both during and after your internship. This means you won\’t be able to share detailed information about your work in university reports, articles, presentations, or public talks. If your academic program requires you to document or present your internship experience in detail, please consider this carefully before applying. We will help you summarise your work for your CV and interviews, in ways that work for you, our business, and our clients.

How to Apply

Before attempting to upload your Portfolio, please note the following information:

Go to the \’Apply for this job\’ button. You\’ll answer a few questions and need to upload two documents at the \\\”Files\\\” step:

Box 1. – \\\”Covering Letter\\\”. Please upload Cover Letter telling us about yourself
Box 2. – \\\”Resume/CV\\\”. Please upload your CV merged with Portfolio.

Please note that each file must be smaller than 15MB to upload. If you have any difficulties submitting your application, please email at [email protected]

Benefits

– Innovation and consultancy training
– True holistic working and collaboration
– Closely integrated into project teams
– Free buffet lunch provided daily
– Casual dress code
– Fully accessible office and adaptations to interview – tell us about your needs
– Free parking and bike racks monitored by CCTV

Interview Process

At interview, we focus on testing your design process and creativity in a real-world situation. Our interview process is designed to allow you to demonstrate your skills and abilities so that we can see your creative thinking in action.

Stage 1: 30-minute interview via Zoom, focused on getting to know you and your goals a bit better.
Stage 2: If you are selected to progress to the next stage, you\’ll be invited to a final interview, which will be held via Zoom and in total may take up to 2.5 hours. There will be 3 parts to this interview:
1. Some time to talk through your portfolio, the role, and Innovia with two members of our design team.
2. A 1 hour independent design task that reflects the type of work we do at Innovia.
3. Some time to present back the results of your task, and for extra discussion with our designers.

Reasonable adjustments

If you are invited to an interview, please let us know if you have any special requirements to support you with by emailing us at [email protected]

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Our commitment

We are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace, are actively seeking to improve the diversity of our teams and welcome applications from under-represented groups. We treat people equitably regardless of their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion, or political views. We especially encourage applications from people who are members of protected groups.