Strategic Design Internship - Sao Paulo

Applications must be submitted in English to be considered

WHERE YOU'LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

Bain AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) brings top data, design & engineering talent, and a wealth of real-life experience. We advise our clients on their most challenging problems in AI and data, including development of leading-edge solutions by our six guilds:

• Design
• Primary Research 
• Insights 
• Product Management and Innovation
• Data Science & Machine Learning Engineering 
• Engineering

AIS brings together a diverse mix of Innovation Consultants, Strategic Designers, Product Managers and Tech specialists to ensure that we are supporting our clients throughout their digital transformation and innovation journey. Together, we create bold new ventures, radically improve customer experiences, driving commercial growth

with our clients by embracing digital innovation and new ways of working.  

Common stages of work include: 

• Discovery: Help clients understand the business, user and technology landscape. Identify priorities and assess risks to generate a transformative path forward.
• Ideation: Use design principles to guide ideation, continue to refine priorities and focus on highest potential opportunities.
• Design and Validate: Create concept experiences based on deep user ethnography to bring an idea to life, and test customer desirability, commercial viability and tech feasibility. 
• Create and Launch: Build experiences, products, services, and launch full-scale new businesses/business models
• Scale: Drive commercial growth of the corporate startup, product, or service.  
• We work with our clients to fully understand the impact of digital on their business and set priorities that will transform their vision into value creation and help them create new innovative businesses.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Working within AIS as a design intern provides an unparalleled opportunity to work on big, impactful challenges for leading brands and businesses, and to experience and learn from multiple different types of projects across industries.

Essential Functions

Participate in the full strategic design process hands on to transform customer insights into impactful opportunities for growth

• Conduct qualitative research and synthesize learnings into actionable insights and tangible artifacts (e.g. personas, customer journey maps, opportunity maps)
• Support planning and execution of ideation workshops and creative sessions
• Envision and conceptualize new business ideas and services with game changing potential and bring them to life through creative storytelling
• Iteratively design and refine solutions through low to high-fidelity prototyping 

Team with and learn from a diverse group of designers and innovation specialists with deep expertise in human-centered design and product development

• Contribute to the collective growth and experience of the AIS team by sharing your experiences and unique perspective
• Gain experience working in a client services environment
• Benefit from 1:1 mentorship from AIS team members with a broad range of experiences and backgrounds

Support case team on cross-functional process management and project delivery and ensure that I&D delivers successfully

• Help ensure that AIS is successful at delivering high impact results
• Independently own pieces of design work, take direction and feedback to evolve the work, and manage time effectively
• Effectively collaborate, co-create, and build relationships with multiple stakeholders (case team, client team, experts, outside partners)

Help to bring Bain to the next level as a business

• Build the AIS knowledge base by capturing learnings from client engagements
• Teach and transfer knowledge, expertise, and capabilities to Bain teams and client teams
• Contribute to AIS culture creation and take on team, office, or firm initiatives

ABOUT YOU

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s design program at an accredited university or institution and set to graduate no later than June 2026
• Must submit a design portfolio (linked or attached) for your application to be reviewed
• Must be able to work physically from the Bain & Company Sao Paulo office located at Av. Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek, 1909 - Vila Nova, Sao Pualo from start date until the end of the internship.

Successful candidates will have:

• Hands-on experience shaping digital products, services, and/or new ventures (or equivalent experience)
• A thorough understanding of Design Thinking
• Skillset and interests focused on areas within strategic design, research, UX/UI, service design, omnichannel experience design, and/or digital product design
• Comfort with and passion for the end-to-end design process, from early-stage insights gathering, to strategy definition, concepting, and prototyping
• Fluency in working with state-of-the-art collaboration and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, GenAI tools)
• Excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills
• A highly ambitious and entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• A basic understanding of product and business strategy
• Understanding of and/or experience using Agile work methods

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.

Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from Eco Vadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.