Intern - Product Archive & Collections

**Location**:Zurich
- Product Design

**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.
- Start date: September 1st 2025
- Duration: 6 months
- Prerequisite: Interest in area relevant to the internship, passion for On, right to work in EU / Switzerland
- Note: This is a paid internship

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.

**Your Mission**:

- 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.

**Your story**:

- You are enrolled in, or have recently graduated from, Museology, Archival Science, Library & Information Science, Museum Studies, Fashion Studies or a related field.
- You work confidently with a collection-management or DAM system, and you are an Excel/Sheets power-user.
- You handle têxtiles, footwear and accessories with care, bringing basic preventive-conservation know-how.
- You think in systems—detail-oriented and self-driven, you keep projects moving.
- You have a strong interest in footwear & fashion; experience in exhibition design or copy-writing is a plus.
- You communicate clearly, stick to deadlines and stay organised; you are fluent in English, written and spoken.
- You bring an entrepreneurial attitude, a hunger to learn and the courage to tackle new challenges.
- You possess an explorative mind coupled with excellent presentation skills that engage diverse audiences.
- You can safely lift up to 15 kg archive boxes—those shoes add up

**About the Team**:
You’ll report directly to the Chief of Staff, Design Studio. The studio drives all of On’s disruptive product design - footwear, apparel, accessories, design direction and innovation. Designers collaborate daily with developers, product managers, innovation and go-to-market teams, making the Archive team the connective tissue that keeps our product history actionable and inspiring.

**Most lived Spirit in our team**:
**Athlete**:
**Athlete**:
The difference is in the detail. So we push boundaries. Mark those marginal gains. All in pursuit of designing ever better looking products. That’s what we do - what’s best today, can be improved tomorrow.

**Zürich**:
Just by the banks of the Limmat you’ll find our largest global hub in Zürich West - On Labs - where you can hike up 12 floors through our custom-built spiral trail.

Förrlibuckstrasse 190,
8005
Switzerland

**What we offer**:
On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically - to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrim