Product Design Intern

Linkyn is looking for a strong Product Design Intern to help design the user experience for an AI-powered relationship-aware outreach platform. This is a hands-on, founder-led internship for designers who want real ownership across user research, interaction design, visual systems, and shipped product features.

Remote - U.S. only, Eastern Time preferred

Internship

Fully remote, with preference for candidates in New York / New Jersey or Eastern

$30–$40/hour

Linkyn is an early-stage startup building an AI-powered relationship-aware outreach platform that helps students, founders, and marketers find relevant people, identify warm connection signals, and generate personalized emails, Linked In DMs, and follow-ups.

We are looking for a Product Design Intern who is a strong visual and intentional thinker and wants to work on a real, live product rather than abstract prompt concepts. This role is end-to-end product design; you should be comfortable moving from messy user research and wireframes into polished, high-fidelity UI designs. You will work on dashboard interfaces, outreach workflows, data visualization for connection signals, onboarding flows, and internal tools.

This is a full-time Summer 2026 internship. The role is remote within the United States, with a preference for candidates based in New York, New Jersey, or Eastern Time. Exceptional performance may lead to semester employment or a return offer.

The first week will include onboarding resources, user persona deep-dives, and architecture walkthroughs, but this role is best for someone who already has strong visual design fundamentals, experience building functional prototypes, and deep comfort with Figma. We care less about flashy, non-functional concept designs and more about whether you can reason through user edge-cases, design logical flows, and improve an existing product experience.

• Design user-centric interfaces, flows, and experiences for Linkyn's core product
• Translate complex, AI-driven data inputs into intuitive dashboard visualizations and connection signal feeds
• Map out comprehensive user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for new product features
• Maintain, scale, and contribute to Linkyn's component library and design system in Figma
• Collaborate directly with the founder on product strategy, feature scoping, and UX tradeoffs
• Work closely with the software engineering team to ensure high-fidelity implementation and seamless design handoffs
• Conduct lightweight user research, competitive analysis, and usability testing to validate design decisions
• Identify current UX friction points and design intuitive UI iterations to improve product retention and setup velocity
• Write clear documentation or design specs explaining the logic behind complex flows and interaction patterns
• Ship production-ready design files with deep care, pixel-perfect ownership, and attention to typographic hierarchy

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in integration design, human-computer interaction (HCI), computer science, or a related field
• An online portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX/UI project case studies and attention to clean visual craft
• Deep technical proficiency with Figma, auto-layout, component states, and interactive prototyping
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to map out complex user flows with multiple edge cases
• Basic understanding of product strategy, user psychology, and how to design for business goals
• Experience collaborating on projects and handling design feedback constructively
• Ability to reason through usability tradeoffs and clearly articulate the "why" behind your design choices
• Strong communication skills and willingness to ask questions early
• High ownership, strong work ethic, and interest in early-stage startups
• Available full-time during the Summer 2026 window
• Authorized to work in the United States; F-1/CPT/OPT candidates will be considered

• Basic understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS, Tailwind, or React) to ease engineering collaboration
• Experience designing complex B2B SaaS platforms, dashboards, CRM workflows, or data-heavy interfaces
• Experience designing with AI constraints, LLM outputs, or conversational AI interfaces Hackathon projects, startup projects, agency work, or shipped personal digital products
• Strong GPA combined with meaningful side projects or practical design work
• Experience with micro-interactions, motion design, or basic web…