UX Designer Co-op/Intern

Job Description

Position: UX Designer Co-op/Intern

Number of Position(s): 1

Duration: 4 Months+

Date: Sept 2nd - Sept 2nd 2026

Location: Flexible

The team you will be a part of

You will join the User Experience and Reporting (UXR) team focusing on our product design system, the Nokia Design System. You will work closely with our team of experts, bringing your exceptional design skills and user-centric approach to design. Your experience with design best practices will help us achieve innovation, consistency, and scalability across our design system and the Nokia products that use it.

Educational recommendations

Currently a candidate for a Master’s, Bachelor's degree, or Diploma in User Experience Design or a related field with an accredited school in Canada.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

As a part of our team, you will:

• Produce designs to help the entire product team grasp the desired user experience: sketches, storyboards, wireframes, visual mock-ups, and prototypes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to explore and translate business and user requirements and technology constraints into simple yet meaningful design solutions.
• Engage with product managers and peers in UX and development team members to solve user and business goals using user-centered design principles.
• Collaborate and discuss prototyping outcomes with fellow designers, PMs, and developers to ensure high-quality implementation of your designs.
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.

Key Skills And Experience

• Exceptional interaction design skills that will help us define, visualize, validate, and communicate design solutions
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Miro, and Adobe CC
• Excellent communication skills, strong reasoning abilities, and effective people skills

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience using or building a Design System
• A solid foundation in user-centered design principles
• The ability to conduct user research

About Us

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

Additional Information

US/Canada Nokia Offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to:

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program

The above benefits exclude students. Disclaimer for US/Canada

Nokia Maintains broad annual base salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, and with consideration to internal peer equity.(Check the salary ranges in the job info section for this role)

All North America job posts will post for a minimum of 7 calendar days and up to 180 days or until candidate/s identified.

About The Team

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.