Doctoral Research Intern
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Job Description
About Slack:
Slack is a company on a mission to make working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. They are hiring for a Doctoral Research Internship for Summer 2025 focused on understanding and guiding the future of work. This internship offers hands-on experience with qualitative and quantitative research projects impacting millions of users. Interns will define and conduct research providing insights to internal stakeholders and the broader academic and business communities.
About the Slack Workforce Lab and the Internship:
This internship is a partnership between Slack’s Research & Analytics team and the Slack Workforce Lab. The Workforce Lab is a multidisciplinary group of researchers and writers studying and developing new ways of working. The internship provides access to resources and events for professional and personal growth, including global onboarding, research-specific training, intern-specific onboarding, an Executive Speaker Series, AMAs, Volunteer Time Off, workshops, socials, recruiter check-ins, and bi-weekly homerooms.
Job Description:
The intern will conduct a research project from start to finish, encompassing:
• Forming research questions.
• Developing and analyzing data.
• Sharing findings with stakeholders.
Ideal research topics relate to how workplaces can best support employees by improving work flexibility, inclusivity, and connection. The intern will collaborate with researchers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to identify research questions and organize datasets for hypothesis testing. Results will be prepared for submission to academic journals or conferences.
Required Qualifications:
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to create compelling narratives based on research insights.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative methods, including at least two of the following: interviews, focus groups, observation, ethnography, surveys, diary studies, usability testing, and concept testing.
• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, Communication, Information Sciences, Computer Science, Design, Organizational Science, Social/Organizational Psychology, Sociology, or a related field.
• Expected graduation in December 2025 or later.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Background in R or Python.
• Experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Experience designing and executing complex research projects independently.
• Experience with product usage/interaction data from social networks or collaboration tools.
