In short

Whether you’re looking to jump start your career or gain first hands-on experience in a new field, an internship at On offers you a unique growth experience, the chance to make an impact from day 1 and contribute to On’s growth journey. We are looking for fresh ideas, curious minds and passionate individuals ready to make a difference. Our internships generally last 6 months and you will be fully embedded in a team.

We’re transforming fifteen years of boundary-pushing footwear, apparel and accessories into a living archive that fuels tomorrow’s design.

During your six-month internship you’ll rotate through physical, digital and storytelling workstreams, gaining a 360° view of how a fast-growing sports brand preserves — and re-activates — its product heritage. As part of a tight, hands-on team you will:

• Bring the archive to life across footwear, apparel, accessories, colour & material and innovation
• Translate stories from our world-class athletes and communities into narratives that inspire future collections.
• Act as the bridge between the archive and product teams — welcoming visitors, barcoding shoes, refining metadata or curating the physical space.

If modern object archiving excites you, you thrive in a fast-paced, design-driven environment, and are eager to gain valuable experience in the sports industry, this internship is the perfect opportunity for you to kickstart your career.

• Inventory & documentation: Accession, photograph and describe incoming samples; generate barcodes and apply controlled vocabulary in our Admin Panel.
• Digitisation & data: Batch-upload images and metadata, run consistency checks, and refine + prep datasets for migration to our new digital platform.
• Sample-workflow guardian: Serve as the go-to contact for teams borrowing or returning items; track movements and maintain the “chain of custody”.
• Facility fit-out: Help test object housings, optimise shelving layouts and monitor climate data for the new archive space.
• Curation & storytelling: Surface hero objects for exhibitions, draft object blurbs and timelines, build mood boards and support internal comms.
• Research & reporting: Answer archive queries, compile usage stats and flag data patterns that can spark future briefs.
• Explore and innovate: Use our facilities to develop a mini project of your own – present it to the Design Studio at the end of the internship.