Spring 2027 Co-op, Human-AI Work and Organization

About the Role

The Vertex Human-AI Work and Organization Design Co-Op is a 6-month experiential training program for students currently working towards an advanced degree. This role is well-suited for a graduate or doctoral student interested in conducting applied research at the intersection of Future of Work, artificial intelligence, work design, organization design, and enterprise transformation.

Program Dates: January – July 2027

Application Deadline: November 15th, 2026

Key Responsibilities

• Capture and synthesize lessons from Vertex’s AI Transformation:
• Partner with Human-AI Design Leads to document design decisions, methods, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Review outputs from pod-level work, including future-state processes, task and work inventories, role definitions, team structures, organization designs, and workforce impact analyses.
• Identify recurring patterns, differences, and unresolved questions across transformation initiatives.
• Translate pod-level experience into concise case studies, research summaries, design guidance, and recommendations for methodology improvements.
• Evolve Vertex’s Human-AI design methodology:
• Help refine the methodology used to analyze work at the task level and identify opportunities to automate, augment, simplify, or reallocate work.
• Support the development of frameworks for determining which activities should be performed by people, AI agents, or a combination of both.
• Help improve methods for translating future-state processes into role definitions, team structures, decision rights, workforce implications, and organization designs.
• Support the continued development of Vertex’s playbook for executing end-to-end human-AI work transformations.
• Advance Organization Design for the AI era:
• Research how AI-enabled work may affect roles, team composition, organizational structures, coordination mechanisms, and spans of responsibility.
• Explore how teams may evolve when people work alongside AI assistants and autonomous or semi-autonomous agents.
• Help adapt established organization design principles and tools for work environments in which AI performs a meaningful share of tasks.
• Research measurement in the age of AI:
• Research emerging approaches for measuring the impact of AI-enabled work and organization redesign.
• Help distinguish measures of AI deployment or usage from measures of sustainable business and organizational impact.
• Work with Human-AI Design Leads to identify measures that can be applied consistently across pods.
• Facilitate organizational learning and knowledge transfer:
• Research effective approaches for transferring learning among groups participating in Vertex’s AI transformation.
• Help establish a recurring process through which Human-AI Design Leads share methods, findings, challenges, and reusable solutions.
• Support workshops, retrospectives, working sessions, and communities of practice focused on human-AI work design.
• Prepare cross-pod learning summaries, presentations, research briefs, and playbook updates.
• Surface emerging questions that require additional research, experimentation, or leadership decisions.
• Collaborate across the transformation:
• Build productive working relationships with Human-AI Design Leads and selected partners across business functions, HR, technology, data, transformation, change, and learning.
• Participate in selected pod working sessions to observe how human-AI design methods are applied in practice.
• Conduct interviews, working sessions, artifact reviews, and structured retrospectives to capture knowledge.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Currently pursuing a master’s degree, doctoral degree, or equivalent graduate-level program.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States, now and in the future. Vertex does not provide sponsorship for internships/co-ops.
• Must be enrolled in an advanced degree program if graduating before May 2027.
• Must be available to work full-time, 40 hours per week from January – July 2027.

Qualifications

• Fields of study include:
• Organizational Design or Organizational Behavior.
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
• Human-Computer Interaction.
• Management, Strategy, or Operations.
• Sociology, Anthropology, or Organizational Sociology.
• Learning Sciences or Organizational Learning.
• Systems Design, Service Design, or Process Design.
• Information Systems, Data Science, or another interdisciplinary field focused on human-AI interaction.
• Strong interest in the future of work, artificial intelligence, human-AI collaboration, organization design, and/or workforce transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct structured research and synthesize findings from academic research, practitioner experience, interviews, and work products.
• Experience in using AI tools to evolve own ways of working (e.g., reviewing/synthesizing information, developing deliverables, automating tasks).
• Strong conceptual and systems-thinking skills, including the ability to connect task, process, role, team, workforce, and organization-level implications.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex information into practical frameworks, tools, playbook content, and executive-ready materials.
• Ability to work effectively in an environment where methods, technologies, and organizational requirements continue to evolve.
• Ability to manage defined work independently while collaborating with experienced practitioners and cross-functional partners.

Program Details

• Full-time, paid co-op: $30.00 – $50.00 USD/hour.
• Hybrid work designation: work three days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
• Benefits:
• Free 24/7 onsite gym access and free access to group exercise classes.
• Subsidized commuter benefits.
• Provided meals—free breakfast daily.
• Career development opportunities and events.
• Social events.
• Location-specific perks and extras.
• Recognition of National Intern Day.
• This job posting is for a temporary role with a third-party agency partner that provides services to Vertex. The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of that third-party agency.