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What You’ll Build
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Position Title: SAP iXp Intern - SAP Research Operations Specialist Intern

Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA 

Expected Start Date: March 1st, 2026 

Contract Duration: 12 months

Schedule: 40 Hours/Week

About the SAP Internship Experience Program: The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers. 

Three reasons to intern at SAP: 

• Culture of collaboration: Meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe, and create a thriving personal network. 

• Project-driven experience: Gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables. 

• Gain visibility: With the SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs, and career development opportunities at your fingertips. 

As a Research Operations Specialist Intern on SAP’s Global Survey Operations team, you will help power SAP’s survey research ecosystem. You will be central to enabling efficient, high-quality survey research at scale—supporting platform governance, data accuracy, dashboarding, and operational workflows that serve research teams across the company. This role is ideal for a curious, detail-oriented problem solver passionate about research, operational excellence, and supporting a global community of research practitioners.   

Your primary responsibilities will include: 

Survey Operations & Governance 

• Review and approve daily ARM requests; ensure accuracy of Qualtrics roles and follow-up on pending approvals.  

• Support user management, permissions, lifecycle management, naming conventions, and compliance checks. 

Platform Operations & Reporting 

• Maintain and update the Survey Overview Dashboard weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually; help streamline and automate reporting workflows. 

• Provide support for dashboard development in Qualtrics and assist with Work Zone and wiki page updates. 

Communications & Intake 

• Prepare and distribute the bimonthly Surveys by the Numbers newsletter, highlighting research impact stories and SAP wide survey metrics. 

• Triage and categorize inbox requests for platform access, permissions, methodology questions, alternative tool guidance, and research consultations. 

Cross Functional Collaboration 

• Partner with platform admins, research partners, satellite team owners, and operational stakeholders across global and regional teams. 

What You Bring: 

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.  

Education & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree (completed or ongoing) in Computer Science, Business, Economics, Statistics, Survey Research, Marketing, or related social sciences. 

• Prior experience in survey research, project management, and data analysis. 

Technical Skills 

• Required: Qualtrics XM Suite expertise across dashboards, survey design, text analytics, workflows, and automation. 

• Familiarity with BI & analytics tools (Excel/VBA, SPSS, SAS) and data transformation methods. 

• Experience with data visualization tools such as PowerPoint, Tableau, Power BI, and Matplotlib/Seaborn. 

Professional Skills 

• Strong problem-solving and synthesis abilities, with comfort building storylines and presenting findings. 

• Ability to work independently on multiple simultaneous projects. 

• Exceptional interpersonal skills for working across functions and geographies. 

• High degree of integrity, flexibility, and confidentiality. 

Where You Belong
Be part of SAP Next Gen, a global community for students, universities, schools and educational
partners, who are passionate about innovation and technology.
1. Culture of Collaboration: Partner with experienced SAP colleagues and expert mentors who will
support your growth. Grow professionally through personalized mentoring, coaching, and career
development support.
2. Project-driven Experience: Kickstart your career with hands-on learning experience, making an
impact from day one by contributing to meaningful projects that help the world run better. You’ll
have endless learning resources at your fingertips and gain future-ready skills from a variety of
virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning sessions, cultivated just for you, and aligned with our
learning approach.
3. Gain Visibility: Build relationships with leaders and peers across teams and functions. Showcase
your ideas, skills, and creativity in a global, fast-paced environment. Open doors for future career
opportunities within SAP and beyond.

Meet your team - What do we do?

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to be part of SAP’s – Survey Operations team. The SAP Research Operations Specialist Intern will engage across the CSG: Survey Operations and our global partners to help drive the implementation of SAP’s XM strategy and achievement of shared business objectives in creating world-class experiences. 

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