People Intelligence Intern

Job Description

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

About The Role: People Intelligence Intern

The People Intelligence Intern will be an integral part of the Centre of People Intelligence (COPI). COPI is a crucial cross-functional capability dedicated to delivering decision-grade people insights, essential for building and sustaining a high-performing organization at Chainlink Labs. This team excels at transforming complex data—including employee communication metadata, behavioral signals, sentiment data, and people systems data—into predictive insights. These insights enable earlier and more effective talent decisions across the organization.

This internship presents a unique opportunity to work at the fascinating intersection of behavioural science, advanced analytics, and AI. You will directly contribute to critical predictive modelling efforts focused on understanding and addressing challenges such as burnout, collaboration effectiveness, performance optimization, and attrition. The intern will primarily support the People Insights & Analytics workstream, playing a key role in translating intricate behavioural data into actionable intelligence that informs strategic workforce decisions.

Your Impact

As a People Intelligence Intern, your contributions will be pivotal in shaping our understanding of organizational dynamics and talent trends. You will:

• Leverage statistical analysis and predictive modelling to generate deep insights on key talent themes including work-life integration, employee retention, organizational health, and collaboration patterns.
• Support the development and refinement of data-driven models that are instrumental in identifying emerging people trends and enabling proactive talent decisions.
• Analyze behavioural, engagement, and broader workforce data to surface critical patterns and identify opportunities for improving team effectiveness and overall organizational performance.
• Analyze employee communication metadata, sentiment signals, and survey data to detect and surface early-warning indicators of potential issues or areas for improvement.
• Translate complex business questions into clear, testable hypotheses and apply rigorous research methods to validate findings and ensure accuracy.
• Partner closely with People Team stakeholders to present clear, defensible, and actionable insights that drive strategic outcomes.
• Maintain the highest standards of documentation, methodological rigor, and data integrity, especially when handling sensitive employee information.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you should possess:

• A strong foundation in statistical modelling and research methods.
• Demonstrable experience with experimental design, hypothesis testing, and applied AI techniques.
• Proficiency in programming languages and tools such as Python, R, or similar statistical analysis tools.
• The ability to effectively clean, structure, and analyze complex datasets, including survey and behavioral data.
• Demonstrated capability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, concise, and actionable business insights.
• Unwavering high discretion and integrity when handling sensitive employee data.

Preferred Requirements

Candidates with the following qualifications will be highly regarded:

• An academic background in Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Psychology, Talent Management, Business Intelligence, or other related fields.
• Exposure to People Analytics methodologies and frameworks.
• Prior experience analyzing employee lifecycle, engagement, or performance data.
• Familiarity with HRIS (Human Resources Information System) or ATS (Applicant Tracking System) systems.
• Previous internship or research experience in analytics, consulting, behavioural science, or HR functions.
• A keen interest in predictive modelling, Organisational Network Analysis (ONA), and behavioural signal detection.

Internship Details & Logistics

Please note that this is a full-time internship requiring 5 working days per week.

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