Design Research Co-op/Internship ( Summer 2025)

Background

We are looking for a Design Research co-op for Summer 2025 in the Headquartered locatedin Cincinnati, Kaleidoscope is a strategic innovation and product design firm with more than 100 employees. We create products and experiences that grow businesses and improve lives by leveraging our expertise at the intersection of consumer insights, technology and health and wellness. We call this Purpose Driven Innovation.™

Job Summary

Kaleidoscope Innovation™ is a full-service insights, design and development firm innovating across medical, consumer and industrial markets. Our Cincinnati studio is staffed with experts in UX and industrial design, user research, human factors, engineering, and visualization.

As a design research intern/co-op, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills while working alongside an innovative and highly collaborative team. In this role, you will help product development teams uncover insights to incorporate the voice and needs of end users and other stakeholders into the design of physical and digital products.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the needs of the design research team by contributing to the planning and execution of qualitative user research, including exploratory, generative, directional, and evaluative studies
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for improving the design of physical and digital products to optimize user experiences
• Assist in the creation of research documents, including protocols, discussion guides, participant screeners, data collection and analysis tools, and visually compelling findings presentations
• Conduct secondary research to help the team build foundational and contextual knowledge within specific project spaces
• Participate in collaborative brainstorming activities with cross-functional teams
• Take ownership of assigned work from inception to delivery, keeping the team abreast of progress, challenges, and opportunities along the way
  
  

Qualifications

• Knowledge and skills at a level acquired through pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Design or related field; talent at a junior, senior, recent graduate, or postgraduate level preferred
• Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong critical and conceptual thinking skills demonstrated by clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance, logic, and fairness on project work
  
  

Education/Experience

• In Bachelor’s (or higher) program in Design, Marketing, Research, Social Science, Human Factors, Psychology or related fields
  
  

WORKING CONDITIONS

Tools and Equipment Used

• Microsoft Office
  
  

Travel

• Minimal: ~5% of the time
  
  

Physical & Mental Demands

• Frequently required to sit at a desk for long period of time
• Digital dexterity and hand/eye coordination in operation of office equipment
• Light lifting and carrying of supplies, files, etc.
• Ability to speak to and hear employees/clients via phone or in person
• Body motor skills sufficient to enable incumbent to move around the office environment
• Ability to analyze unique situations and develop appropriate response
• Additional Physical Requirements: file, speak, write, hear, read, type, see
• Additional Mental Requirements: compare, decide, direct, problem solve, analyze, instruct, interpret
  
  

Environment

Work typically performed in an office setting.