Human Resources Internship | Graduate - Summer 2027

Endeavor; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Endeavor's Summer Internship Program offers a 10-week HR internship with high-visibility projects that impact our global People team. You will work side by side with headquarters in NYC, gaining real responsibility and exposure, while helping modernize HR tools and processes.

This role requires a graduate student in HR/People with hands-on experience in scaling HR processes, and comfort with HR tech and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Graduate student with HR/People experience, ideally in a startup or high-growth organization.
• Experience building and scaling HR processes, playbooks, systems, or tools.
• Comfort with HR technology and AI-enabled workflows; experience with HR/recruiting platforms is a plus.
• Strong judgment and communication skills; ability to turn complexity into clear, practical solutions.
• Highly organized and able to work independently across teams and cultures.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the U.S. for 2027 year.

Responsibilities

• Assess current People practices; evaluate hiring, onboarding and offboarding; identify gaps and opportunities to scale.
• Strengthen hiring approach; redesign guidance, interview practices, tools and workflows with external best practices.
• Build scalable People tools; improve playbooks, tools, and systems; explore recruitment platform and AI/MCP integrations to simplify workflows.

Skills

HR experience

Process design

HR tech familiarity

Communication

Independent worker

Education

Graduate student in HR/People field

Tools

HR recruitment platform

AI/MCP integrations

Job description

About the Role

Endeavor's People and Transformation team sits at the heart of how we grow, develop, and support our global organization. From our headquarters team of ~80 to nearly 500 colleagues across 45+ markets, we focus on building the capabilities that allow Endeavor to better serve high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

We're looking for a detail-oriented, people-first graduate intern with a passion for HR to take ownership of high-visibility projects that strengthen how our People team operates day-to-day. This is not a shadowing role – you'll actively build, refine, and modernize the tools and processes our HR team and hiring managers rely on across the employee lifecycle.

In this role, you'll help revamp Endeavor's HR toolkits of best practices spanning hiring, onboarding, and offboarding, work hands‑on with our HR recruitment platform (including exploring MCP integrations to help our team use it more effectively), and support a range of additional HR duties as they arise. By the end of the internship, you'll have delivered tangible, adoptable resources that make a real difference for how our global People team – and the colleagues they support – get things done.

This internship is ideal for someone with a background in Human Resources or a related field, genuinely passionate about people operations, and excited to gain real responsibility and visibility inside a mission-driven organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility #1: Assess Our Current People Practices Evaluate how key HR processes work today, particularly hiring, onboarding and offboarding. Identify gaps, friction points, and opportunities to make them more effective and scalable.
• Responsibility #2: Strengthen Our Hiring Approach Help redesign priority parts of our hiring process – from manager guidance and interview practices to tools and workflows – bringing external best practices and a fresh perspective to how we attract and select talent.
• Responsibility #3: Build Scalable People Tools & Systems Turn recommendations into action by improving the existing playbooks, tools, and systems into helpful resources to the team. Explore how technology, including our recruitment platform and AI/MCP integrations, can simplify workflows and improve hiring managers and managers experience

Skills and Qualifications – Who You Are

• Graduate student with significant prior HR/People experience, ideally in a startup or high‑growth organization.
• Experience building and scaling HR processes, playbooks, systems, or tools – not just operating them. Strong knowledge of the employee lifecycle, particularly hiring, onboarding, and offboarding.
• Comfort with HR technology and AI‑enabled workflows; experience with HR/recruiting platforms is a plus.
• Strong judgment and communication skills, with the ability to turn complexity into clear, practical solutions.
• Highly organized and comfortable working independently across teams, seniority levels, and cultures.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the U.S. We will not be able to interview or select candidates without valid U.S. work authorization for the 2027 year.

Hiring Timeline

• Applications close: October 7, 2026 at 11:59pm
• Interview process: Interview 1 with Hiring Manager, Assessment, Interview 2 with Head of People
• Offer extension: November 16, 2026

Internship Program Overview

The Endeavor Summer Internship Program gives students 10 weeks to do more than just watch from the sidelines. You'll be put side by side with our Headquarters teams in NYC, San Francisco, London, Dubai, or Singapore, owning meaningful projects that move Endeavor forward.

You'll contribute to real work from day one, and by the end of the summer, you'll present it directly to our CEO. Along the way you’ll get access most internships can’t offer, including fireside chats with our CEO, candid conversations with category-defining Endeavor Entrepreneurs, and face time with executives across our global HQ. You’ll leave with new skills, relationships across 50+ countries, and a much deeper understanding of how entrepreneurship works around the world.

This is your front‑row seat to how a global organization helps ambitious entrepreneurs build, scale, and shape what’s next.

• Program Duration: June 7th, 2027 to August 13th 2027
• Pay: New York State minimum wage ($17/hr), up to 40 hours/week
• Structure: This is a hybrid internship in New York City, with three days per week to be spent at Endeavor Global’s HQ office in Downtown Manhattan
• Read more about out program here

About Endeavor

WHO WE ARE: Endeavor is the leading network of entrepreneurs scaling exceptional businesses around the world.

OUR MISSION: We exist to develop thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in places where talent is abundant, but capital and opportunity are not.

OUR MODEL: At Endeavor we:

• Select the highest‑potential scale‑up founders as Endeavor Entrepreneurs (EEs), including some of the fastest‑growing AI companies in our markets.
• Support EEs through pivotal moments as they go big.
• Invest in EEs through our pioneering co‑investment fund, Endeavor Catalyst, with $840M+ AUM across five funds.
• Elevate the top entrepreneurs as role models.
• Advance the field of global entrepreneurship through data‑driven research and thought leadership, including measuring entrepreneurs’ Multiplier Effects across ecosystems.

Endeavor Entrepreneurs (EEs) prove that category-defining companies can come from anywhere in the world. Since our founding 29 years ago, Endeavor has selected 3,100+ Endeavor Entrepreneurs across 50+ countries, including the founders of 100+ Unicorns (companies valued at $1B+)