Your Title: Product Research Intern
Job Location: Christchurch, NZ
Our Segment: AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, & Owner)
Internship Period: 17th November 2025 to 13th February 2026
Number of Positions: 1
Are you interested in an internship opportunity where you gain valuable product & customer research experience with world-leading technology solutions across various industries?
What You Will Do
As a Product Research Intern with Trimble, you will contribute to a dynamic team of product & design research professionals, assisting with a broad spectrum of customer research activities that inform Trimble’s cross-product strategies and new technology initiatives such as AI.

You will be working within the NZ arm of a global team, collaborating with members across multiple locations, and you will gain practical experience in a range of customer and strategic research areas:

• Collaborate with design and product teams to translate research insights into actionable recommendations
• Contribute to the creation of research reports and presentations
• Assist the research team in identifying user needs and market trends
• Support customer research methods, such as interviews, surveys, and usability testing
• Help analyze research data and synthesize findings
• Support the team in understanding customer pain points and opportunities.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Curiosity, and a passion for understanding people, their context, and why they do what they do
• Currently studying a diploma or bachelor’s in a design, market research, or customer research-related field
• Some experience or study in Voice of Customer, or Qualitative and/or quantitative research methodologies
• Good communication skills with the ability to tell ‘human’ stories
• An ability to tell stories visually through graphs, or graphics
• Some interest in user-centered design principles and practices
• Familiarity with research tools (e.g., survey platforms, data analysis software) is helpful but not essential.

Please note: Only applicants who are students and legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered.
About Our AECO Segment

Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Owner (AECO) is comprised of five divisions responsible for different products and services related to the construction lifecycle, including:

• Design & Engineering
• General Contracting
• Civil Contracting
• Trade Constructions

We are actively leveraging these industry-leading capabilities to deliver a unified Trimble Construction One (TC1) offering to our customers. Internally, TC1 represents a significant evolution for our product platform and our go-to-market capabilities. Externally, TC1 represents our customers’ opportunity to embark on a digital transformation journey of their own. The advent of TC1 allows our customers to engage with more of Trimble’s capabilities in a streamlined and integrated way.
About Your Location
Based at Trimble’s NZ headquarters in Christchurch, New Zealand (handily located on the Little River Link Cycleway), enjoy free parking, securely covered bike sheds, an onsite gym, showers, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.
At Trimble, you’ll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.
Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment
We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed, and most importantly, that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.
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• Design & Engineering
• General Contracting
• Civil Contracting
• Trade Construction