HR Operations Intern

Streaming, podcasts and newsletters reach millions of people each month. São Paulo Times owns more than 100 newspapers, TV stations and websites across Brazil. Copy editors read everything twice before it publishes.

Internship overview:

São Paulo Times is hiring an HR Operations Intern for Spring 2027. The People Team is small and growing. You will help onboard new joiners, update policies, run surveys and keep records clean. We are headquartered in São Paulo and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will intern remotely with our team in São Paulo. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Your projects:

• Assist with performance review cycles by sending forms and chasing pending ones.
• Support the payroll team with input sheets and document checks.
• Run online engagement activities like virtual quizzes, birthday shoutouts and town hall polls.
• Prepare offer letters, appointment letters and experience letters from templates.
• Track attendance and leave data and flag gaps to managers before the payroll cut-off.
• Coordinate onboarding for new joiners: documents, laptop request, welcome email and first-week schedule.

Basic qualifications:

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Clear written English for letters, emails and policy drafts.
• Good command of MS Excel or Google Sheets: VLOOKUP, filters, basic pivots.
• Laptop with MS Office or Google Workspace and stable internet.
• Basic understanding of HR functions from coursework: recruitment, onboarding, payroll, labour law.
• Organised and comfortable with routine documentation work.

Nice to have:

• Interest in HR analytics.
• Exposure to an HRMS like Keka, Zoho People, greytHR or BambooHR.
• Previous internship or volunteer role in a college placement cell.

What you get out of it:

• Exposure to employee engagement in a fully remote company.
• You will draft at least one policy that goes to the leadership team.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion.
• How onboarding, attendance and payroll inputs connect to each other.

Program dates: Spring 2027, 12 weeks.

Pay: $21.00-$23.00/hr

Benefits for interns:

• Company laptop.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Flexible hours.
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Return offer opportunities.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at São Paulo Times S.A..