Spring 2027 Co-op, Human-AI Work and Organization Design at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, MA

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Job Description Kickstart Your Career at Vertex! Are you ready to make a real impact? At Vertex, our mission is to tackle serious diseases and to change lives, for the better, for the future. Our aim is to give you the skills, insights, and career guidance to be an important part of that future; to turn your potential into progression. As a Vertex intern or co-op, you’ll work on meaningful projects, collaborate with talented teams, and learn from industry leaders. We’re passionate about innovation, inclusion, and supporting your growth—inside and outside the lab. Why Vertex? Real Projects: You’ll work on assignments that make a real impact, not just busy work. Mentorship & Networking: Connect with leaders and peers who want to see you succeed through professional networks, connections, and collaborations that will shape your longer-term career. Flexible & Supportive: We offer flexible work options with Flex @ Vertex and prioritize your wellbeing. Inclusive Culture: Collaboration and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. Career Launchpad: Build skills, explore career paths, and get guidance for your future career. Your Impact The Vertex Human-AI Work and Organization Design Co-Op is a 6-month experiential training program for students currently working towards an advanced degree in Organizational Design, Organizational Behavior, Industrial-organizational Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Strategy, Management, Operations, Sociology, Anthropology, Organizational Sociology, Learning Sciences, Organizational Learning, Systems Design, Service Design, Process Design, Information Systems, Data Science, or other related fields focused on Human-AI interaction. If you are passionate, collaborative, and growth-minded, a co-op at Vertex will help you gain meaningful experience in our Workforce Strategy & Innovation functional areas and serve as a launchpad for your career. The application deadline for this co-op is November 15th. Please note that Vertex reviews applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close this job posting prior to the listed deadline. Applicants can expect to receive an update about their application before or shortly after the application deadline. Ready to apply? Submit your application and let’s turn possibilities into reality! What you will be doing: Vertex is advancing an enterprise AI transformation that will evolve how work is performed, how teams operate, and how Vertexians collaborate with AI agents to deliver value. Human-AI Design is a major component of our transformation, and involves analyzing work at the task level, designing future-state human-AI processes, and translating those processes into roles, team structures, workforce plans, and organization designs. The Graduate Co-op, Human-AI Work and Organization Design will report to the Senior Director of Human-AI Process Design and work closely with Human-AI Design Leads and other stakeholders within HR and beyond to capture lessons from active transformation work, synthesize insights across initiatives, and translate emerging experience into improved methodologies, tools and standards. The co-op will also conduct research on human-AI collaboration, the future of work, AI-enabled organization design, team evolution, organizational learning, and measurement. By connecting external research with evidence from Vertex’s transformation initiatives, the co-op will help Vertex develop a rigorous and practical approach to redesigning work for an AI-enabled future. This role is well suited for a graduate or doctoral student interested in conducting applied research at the intersection of Future of Work, artificial intelligence, work design, organization design, and enterprise transformation. Key Responsibilities: Capture and synthesize lessons from Vertex’s AI Transformation Partner with Human-AI Design Leads working across transformation pods to document design decisions, methods used, challenges encountered, and lessons learned. Revie