People Strategy Intern

Dandelion Energy is an energy innovation company working to electrify home heating. We create and install geothermal heat pumps to replace fossil-fueled furnaces and boilers. Since spinning out of Google X in 2017, we’ve grown into an organization of over 100 employees and have become the largest residential geothermal heat pump installation company in the US. Our carbon impact to date is the equivalent to taking over 25,000 cars off the road, and that impact is accelerating with our growth! 

Our cross-disciplinary team consists of experts in geothermal, drilling, heat pump and software engineering, HVAC installation, solar and solar financing, behavioral economics, and high-growth operations, among other backgrounds. With the potential to catalyze and scale a widespread transition to sustainable and affordable heating and cooling, our work is both exciting and complex. We are working to create a wholesale shift in how people heat and cool their homes — join us!

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As a Dandelion People Strategy Intern, you will have the opportunity to help craft an intentional employee experience at a renewable technology company backed by leading investors like Google Ventures, Comcast Ventures, NEA, and Lennar. We are looking for a driven individual with a passion for motivating and inspiring teams who is ready for real-world experience. Under the direct supervision of our Head of People, you can expect to create company-wide communications and newsletters, work on employee engagement initiatives, put together benefits related analyses, and assist with other activities to grow the team. This is a paid six month, part-time internship with a minimum expectation of committing 15 - 18 hours a week remotely.

What you’ll do

• Work as part of a dynamic corporate team to compile and analyze data, track information, and support our day to day field operations
• Learn how the employee journey is shaped at a fast-growing startup in the renewable energy space   
• Support our employee onboarding process 
• Create company-wide communications and employee newsletters
• Conduct benefits related analyses 
• Perform analysis on training opportunities for our current employees 
• Review and help draft employee job descriptions
• Perform research on salary ranges for certain positions
• Draft and research company policies to support our values and support a great employee experience
• Organize and facilitate employee team bonding events  
• Take on additional tasks or projects to learn more about training and developing skilled workers in the renewable energy space 

About you 

• A student actively working towards a Bachelors or Masters with some coursework or previous internship experience in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology or Business Administration  
• Passion for understanding the employee experience. You are thoughtful and empathetic in gathering information and interacting with employees. 
• Strong communication skills. You are able to form and express your opinions in a collaborative way
• Creative problem solving. You have a strong desire to take on new challenges and learn as much as possible. 
• Prioritization and resilience. You understand when and how to manage a tight timeline while maintaining standards of excellence. 
• Integrity. You must be able to handle sensitive or confidential information with honesty and integrity. 
• Experience in the following platforms is a plus: Excel, Google sheets, Greenhouse, Goodhire.

You’ll love working at Dandelion because:

We’re solving the world’s hardest problems. You’ll have the opportunity to pioneer renewable heating and cooling from the ground-up (literally). There’s no established playbook for fighting climate change, so your work will be messy, challenging, and build a better, cleaner world.

We’re good people. It sounds simple, and it is. We are passionate, vision-driven, low-ego, and treat one another with kindness and respect. We challenge ideas here, not people.

We hold each other accountable. We celebrate our wins and learn from our losses. We’re honest, realistic, and transparent across all areas of the business, every day -- not just at our monthly all-hands meeting.