Giant Leap Trainee, User Experience Design

Are you ready to take a Giant Leap? We’re looking for a User Experience Design Intern for our Giant Leap program – a project-based internship in our HQ in Vantaa. You will improve the usability and discoverability of our problem-solving tools by designing a centralized portal/tool that makes methods, templates, and guidance easy to find and easy to use, as part of the Problem Solving Tools for Everyone project. As a Giant Leaper, you will get your own project to lead for three months, starting in June.

Vaisala is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most – from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. For a second year running, Vaisala got recognized in TIME Magazine's World's Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2026 study. Our team of close to 2,500 experts and 62 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.

Giant Leap is a unique opportunity for you to be the project manager of your own project, with the support of your teammates and project supervisor. Every year, these projects are carefully selected by our leadership teams, meaning that you get to work on real-life questions that are important for us as a company.

We invest in your growth with training sessions throughout the summer. Along with lessons from your own field and work life in general, you have a chance to learn, for instance, presentation skills, project management and problem solving. Connections built with fellow Giant Leapers, Vaisala’s brilliant experts and our leadership form an invaluable network for your career. Many of our former Giant Leapers have also gone on to build impressive careers at Vaisala after the program.

What will your summer look like?

• The role includes shaping intuitive instructions, integrating access to coaches, and ensuring a consistent, user-centered experience that supports effective problem solving across the whole global organization.
• You will familiarize yourself with the problem-solving tools and methods used in the company and design a user-friendly way of presenting them to employees across the organization, including clear instructions, available coaches, and guidance on how to get started.
• You will create a centralized portal or tool, accessible to everyone in the company, that provides easy access to support for systematic problem solving.
• The project is vital because systematic problem solving is critical for efficiency and sustainable improvement; when tools and support are hard to find or difficult to use, problems are not solved effectively and tend to reoccur.
• You will learn about improving systems on a global scale, continual improvement and influencing an organization by user centric design.

You will work as part our global Quality team, which is focused on continual improvement. Your supervisor is the team leader of the Quality team, you will also work closely with the Continual Improvement Quality Manager. We know the tools and methods, you will help us make them accessible, intuitive, and easy to use for everyone.

The position is primarily on-site at our headquarters, with some flexibility for remote work.

What kind of skillset are we looking for?

• User experience (UX) design and user-centered design principles
• Human–technology interaction
• Ability to translate complex tools and processes into clear, intuitive user experiences
• Visual and graphical design skills, with attention to clarity and usability
• Problem-solving mindset and structured thinking
• Creativity and the ability to design practical, usable solutions

Are you ready to take a Giant Leap?

Please apply by February 1, 2026, and include your CV.
We’d also love to hear what inspired you to apply for this role and to Vaisala in a brief cover letter.

Schedule and steps of the recruitment process:

• Application period: January 12 – February 1
• Invitations to the interview events: during week 6
• Interview events at Vaisala, Vantaa (F2F): week 7

If you want to know more, feel free to reach out to the hiring manager Marika Svennas via email marika.svennas@vaisala.com. Please note that applications sent via email cannot be processed due to privacy reasons.

Kindly note that we are not able to provide support in relocation or work permit-related matters.

Interested in learning more about Vaisala and our Giant Leap program? Join us at Career Night on 20 January 2026, 16:30–19:00 at our Vantaa HQ to meet experts and explore real projects you could work on this summer. Read more and register to the event: www.vaisala.com/careernight