Internship - HR Tech, Data & AI Enablement

This is a six-month internship at On, designed to offer exceptional growth opportunities, immediate impact, and a direct contribution to the company's global expansion. The intern will be fully integrated within a dedicated team environment and will support the HR Technology & Insights team, which powers On's global HR function through modern platform architecture, robust data stewardship, and forward-looking workforce intelligence. The team operates at the intersection of technical excellence and human-centred design, creating seamless digital experiences that support talent across every stage of their journey.

• Take direct accountability for assigned operational workflows and sub-projects, driving tasks from initial onboarding through to measurable business impact over the six-month tenure.
• Partner closely with mentors, cross-functional peers, and regional stakeholders across EMEA to align on shared milestones and execute business priorities.
• Assist with daily team operations, streamline routines, and optimise internal documentation to maintain premium execution standards.
• Present project learnings, campaign outcomes, or analytical findings to team leadership using structured storytelling and clear data insights.
• Audit, structure, and govern HR documentation across the Intranet and Google Drive, standardising formatting and taxonomies to ensure high-quality retrieval for conversational AI and search tools.
• Explore and map Workday's core data structures, business objects, and reporting logic to understand how structured employee data connects to automated workflows and AI context grounding.
• Assist in developing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and semantic data layers, creating the critical translation bridge that allows AI agents to securely query, understand, and reason across complex HR systems.
• Analyse historical and active HR helpdesk tickets to categorise high-frequency employee inquiries, evaluating and benchmarking what percentage of tier-1 cases can be accurately resolved or deflected by AI assistants.
• Run prompt evaluations, test bot responses against real employee scenarios, and identify knowledge or data gaps that cause hallucinations or dropped handoffs.

• Valid work authorization for the EU.
• Availability for the full six-month internship programme starting on 1 March.
• Highly self-motivated with a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset; comfortable taking initiative, navigating ambiguity, and driving solutions independently across a six-month commitment.
• Exceptionally organised and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and follow through on structured processes.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills in English, with confidence to interact, share updates, and collaborate with diverse stakeholders across levels.
• Foundational interest in enterprise data models and reporting (e.g., Workday, SQL, Excel/BI), paired with an eagerness to understand how backend HR systems integrate with front-end tools.
• Strong curiosity about LLMs, prompt engineering, and conversational AI, backed by analytical rigour to measure deflection rates, accuracy, and process efficiency.

• Onboarding voucher.
• Exclusive On product store credits for apparel, accessories, and footwear.
• Full access to mental wellbeing counselling and coaching via Kyan Health.
• Dedicated internship learning sessions and workshops.
• Comprehensive accident, disability, and income protection coverage.
• Access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being.