HR & Employee Experience Intern

🌱 About us

Greenly was founded in 2019 by Alexis, Matthieu and Arnaud with one mission: make carbon management as essential as financial management.

Today, we are a global leader in carbon accounting, proudly B-Corp certified and part of the French Tech 120. Our climate suite combines smart data collection with intuitive automation, helping companies measure, reduce, and report their emissions with ease — supported at every step by our in-house climate experts. 💚

More than 3,500 companies in 20+ countries use Greenly to manage their climate strategy: from carbon assessments and life-cycle analyses to SBTi trajectories and compliance with CSRD and CBAM.

We are now a team of 200+ people from 40+ nationalities, based in Paris, London, Barcelona, and New York. 🌎

To date, we’ve tracked over 200 million tons of CO₂ through our platform. Our next milestone: 10,000 clients and one billion tons of CO2 under management.

🌱 Our Values

• Ambition for climate: Minimize GHG emissions, maximize climate impact

• Deliver with agility: Work in small increments: fail fast, learn fast, win fast

• Own your opportunities: Achieve outstanding results by showing initiative and accountability

• Feedback paves the way: Succeed as a team by helping others progress

Curious to know more ? Check out our Culture Book, blog , and youtube channel 🎥

🌱 About the role

Greenly is looking for a curious, rigorous, and proactive HR Intern to join our People team in Paris!

This is a unique opportunity to discover the reality of HR in a fast-growing climate tech scale-up, where no two days look the same. You will work closely with the HR team on a wide range of operational and strategic topics, helping us support 200+ employees across multiple countries. 🌍

🚀 The challenge: Supporting people at scale

At Greenly, the HR team plays a central role in employee experience, compliance, recruitment, culture, and internal operations. We are a lean team, which means you will quickly gain ownership and visibility on meaningful projects.

This is not a “coffee & photocopy” internship. We are looking for someone who wants to contribute concretely, learn fast, and grow in a demanding but supportive environment.

📣 Internal Communication & Culture

Focus: Creating an engaging and people-first employee experience.

• Help prepare internal HR communications, newsletters, and employee initiatives. ✍️

• Support culture-building projects such as surveys, Lunch Roulette, onboarding activities, and wellbeing initiatives.

• Participate in organizing office life and internal and/or external events. 🎉

• Bring new ideas to improve employee engagement and HR processes.

🤝 HR Operations & Employee Support

Focus: Making sure employees have a smooth and high-quality HR experience.

• Support day-to-day HR operations and help maintain accurate employee documentation and HR processes.

• Prepare HR documents such as certificates, contract amendments, onboarding documents, and administrative follow-ups. 🗂️

• Answer employee questions with responsiveness, empathy, and attention to detail.

• Coordinate HR requests and follow-ups with different teams internally.

• Contribute to payroll and compliance-related checks to ensure operational accuracy. ✅

🎯 Recruitment & Talent Support

Focus: Helping Greenly attract and hire top talent.

• Support recruitment processes across different teams and departments.

• Review applications, conduct CV screenings, and participate in interviews.

• Help with sourcing efforts and candidate coordination.

• Ensure candidates have a smooth and positive experience throughout the recruitment process.

• Contribute to employer branding initiatives and recruitment communication.

📊 Projects & Continuous Improvement

Focus: Building smarter and more scalable HR processes.

• Support HR audits, reporting, and process documentation.

• Use tools like Google Sheets, Notion, and AI tools to improve efficiency and organization.

• Contribute to ad hoc HR projects depending on business priorities.

• Identify ways to improve HR operations and proactively suggest solutions.

🌱 Required Skills

✅ Must-haves

🧠 Strong organization skills and attention to detail.

💬 Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both French and English (C1 minimum).

📊 Good Excel / Google Sheets skills.

⚡ Comfortable working on multiple topics in parallel in a fast-paced environment.

🤝 Employee-centric mindset with a strong sense of service and professionalism.

💡 Curiosity for HR, people topics, and startup environments.

✨ Creativity and an eye for continuous improvement, with the ability to proactively suggest new ideas and better ways of doing things.

🤖 Positive attitude toward AI and willingness to use new tools to work smarter.

➕ Nice-to-haves

• Previous internship, student job, or experience in HR, recruitment, operations, or administration.

• Experience with Notion, Slack, LinkedIn, ATS, or HRIS tools.

• Interest in labor law, compliance, or employer branding.

• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment.

🌱 What success looks like

By the end of the internship, you will have:

• Become autonomous on key HR operational tasks. 🧩

• Contributed meaningfully to recruitment and employee support. 🤝

• Owned internal HR and culture initiatives. 🌟

• Learned how HR operates in a fast-growing international scale-up. 🚀

• Built strong operational, communication, and organizational skills. 📈

🌱 Perks & benefits

📍 Beautiful offices in the heart of Paris (9ᵉ arrondissement)

💰 Compensation: €1,200 gross per month

🏠 Flexible remote work policy (with strong office presence expected)

⚒️ Top-notch tools to help you do your best work

🚅 50% Navigo reimbursement for public transport

🥗 Sustainable lunch vouchers via Ekip

🤸 Partial coverage of your Gymlib subscription

🤝 A culture of autonomy, transparency, and collaboration with a team of highly talented, committed people

🌱 The recruitment process 

📞 First introduction call with Franka to get to know each other and learn more about the role

🧠 Prepare and complete a case study with Franka & Svenja focused on HR reasoning, organization, and creativity

🚀 Final interview and case study discussion with Karel, our Head of HR

📋 Provide us with references to complete the recruitment process

🥳 We welcome you during our onboarding week!

We’re a team shaped by diverse experiences and ideas. If you’re excited about the role but don’t match every requirement, we still encourage you to apply — you may be the right person for the team. 🙏