About Nordic Valley

Nordic Valley is a Scandinavian AI innovation hub, currently building our flagship product, Nordly. An AI-powered hiring infrastructure platform designed to help startups and SMEs discover and hire the right tech and design talent faster.

Nordly combines intelligent matching, talent profiles, and hiring workflows to make recruitment more efficient for both companies and professionals. Our goal is to help startups scale with the right teams while enabling talented people to work on projects and companies that truly excite them.

Role Overview

This is a hands-on internship for someone who wants genuine end-to-end experience, not peripheral tasks. You’ll work across both sides of our dual-sided platform: the employer-facing B2B product and the candidate-facing B2C experience. You’ll collaborate directly with team leads, developers, and the founding team, contributing to live design and testing work from day one.

This role suits someone who is curious, takes initiative, and is comfortable with ambiguity in an early-stage startup environment, someone eager to learn how design and product thinking come together in building real, human-centred AI products.

Key Responsibilities

• Design communication: Translating product vision and platform features into compelling pitch deck presentations to support fundraising and stakeholder conversations.

• UX/UI design: Conducting competitive analysis to benchmark Nordly against the market and identify design opportunities. Designing user flows, wireframes, and mid-fidelity prototypes in Figma to solve design problems across both the employer-facing and candidate-facing platform. Iterating on designs based on user testing findings and developing high-fidelity prototypes ready for development. Contributing to building and maintaining the design system.

• User testing: Planning and conducting user testing sessions on the live developed platform, documenting findings, identifying usability issues, and feeding insights back into the design iteration cycle.

• Collaboration and handoff: Working closely with developers to bridge the gap between design and implementation. This includes preparing detailed handoff documentation in Figma, annotating components, defining interaction states, specifying spacing, typography, and behaviour, so developers have everything they need to build accurately. You’ll also support QA by reviewing the developed platform against design specs, flagging discrepancies, and communicating fixes clearly with the engineering team.

What We're Looking For

• Degree in UX/UI Design or a related field (preferably based in Denmark)

• Proficiency in Figma and other design tools

• A portfolio with UX case studies (required)

• Approach design with intention and thinking through problems before jumping to solutions

• A fast learner who takes ownership of your work and genuinely enjoys the focus and autonomy that comes with remote work

• Collaborative by default, open to feedback, and driven by personal standards rather than needing to be managed

• Good communication skills in English, both written and verbal

  
  

Bonus Points

• Attention to detail in visual design, typography, and interaction

• Αbility to connect design decisions to user needs and business goals

• Familiarity with user research methods and usability testing

• Basic frontend principles

• Interest in AI-driven product or recruitment technology

• Based in Denmark / Europe or flexible with CET hours

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a cross-cultural founding team building a real AI product from the ground up

• Get genuine end-to-end experience across UX design, prototyping, user testing, and product collaboration

• End-to-end experience in user research, UX, and product design for a real AI platform

• Learn how to turn raw insights into product-defining experiences

• Mentorship from cross-functional leads in design, product, and engineering

• The opportunity to contribute directly to a live MVP and influence its evolution

A Few Notes

• This is an unpaid internship for 3 months

• Weekly commitment: ~15 hours (flexible schedule)

• Internship can be used for academic credit or internship approval

• Upon successful completion, there may be opportunities for extended collaboration and a full-time position as we grow