UI/UX Design Internship (NYC)

About ZOVU ZOVU is a global online startup building the Operating System for the modern restaurant. We are on a mission to unify the fragmented hospitality industry. Our vision is simple: One OS that covers everything a restaurant needs—Point of Sale, Loyalty Systems, Reservations, Staff Planning, and a Customer App. We are disrupting the industry by saying “No” to expensive monthly contracts. While competitors charge high SaaS fees, ZOVU operates on a partnership model: we charge strictly a transaction margin on sales. We only grow when our customers grow. We operate as a fully remote, global team. We are at the start of an exciting journey, adding new features and growing rapidly.

At ZOVU, we’re all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive. If you are ready to hustle and build something from the ground up, we want you on board.

Note: We don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role and the Horeca industry, we encourage you to apply!

The Role

We’re looking to hire an ambitious UI/UX Design Intern to join our global product team. In this role, you will learn the ropes of SaaS product design by helping craft intuitive and seamless experiences across the ZOVU platform.

You will act as an advocate for our end-users restaurant owners, staff, and their guests—ensuring that complex tasks like managing POS transactions, reservations, and loyalty programs are simple and efficient. Because our software needs to be used in fast-paced environments, your design choices will directly impact the daily lives of hospitality workers.

This is a fully remote role. You manage your own time, your own projects, and your own success. As we are an early-stage startup, you will have a direct line to the founders and the development team, giving you the opportunity to shape our product’s visual identity and user experience from the ground level.

What Excites You

• Total Freedom: You love working remotely and managing your own schedule without micromanagement.
• Building the Future: You are excited to design a product that is evolving. You can shape the visual and functional vision of the “One OS” and help us bring these features to life.
• User-Centric Disruption: You want to challenge clunky, traditional restaurant software with sleek, modern, and highly usable interfaces.
• Solving Complex Problems: You love the thrill of taking complicated user flows and simplifying them into beautiful, intuitive screens.

What Excites Us

• Eagerness to Learn: Experience with design tools (like Figma), UI/UX principles, or the Horeca industry is great, but your attitude matters most. We need passionate individuals ready to hustle.
• Resilience: You understand startup life. Things move fast, features are added constantly, and you need to be adaptable to feedback and iteration.
• Self-Discipline: Since this is 100% remote, you have the internal drive to work consistently and hit your learning goals.
• Communication: You can explain the “why” behind your design choices simply and collaborate smoothly with developers and founders.
• Industry Empathy: You understand the restaurant business. Maybe you’ve worked in hospitality before—you know that Friday nights are busy, screens get messy, and interfaces need to be fast and foolproof.

Internship Details & Growth

This position is an internship designed to give you hands-on, high-impact experience in product design and startup growth.

• Hands-on Experience: You will receive direct mentorship and learn real-world UI/UX strategies, from wireframing and prototyping to handing off designs to developers.
• Future Growth: As ZOVU grows, successful interns will have the first opportunity to transition into permanent, full-time product design roles within our team.

The Good Stuff!

• 100% Remote: Work from anywhere in the world. Digital nomad friendly.
• Startup Speed: No corporate bureaucracy. We implement ideas fast.
• Career Acceleration: Join a fast-growing startup on the ground floor. The learning and growth opportunities are limitless as we scale globally.
• Be Part of the Vision: You aren’t just a number; you are helping build the “One OS” for the Horeca industry.

Life at ZOVU

We are a global online organization defined by our ambition. We don’t need a fancy office to make an impact; we need passion. We make it happen, working with urgency and …