Application Advisor Intern 8 Months - Fall 2026

Dayforce, a global leader in Human Capital Management (HCM) with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, operates across North America, EMEA, and APJ regions. Our Cloud HCM platform, recognized for its unified database and continuous calculation engine, enhances efficiency, productivity, and compliance for global workforces. We are committed to "Making Work Life Better™" for employees, customers, and partners worldwide.

As an Intern at Dayforce, you’ll gain real-world experience with meaningful responsibilities, access to development programs, and the chance to collaborate globally, bringing new ideas and optimizing processes across multiple business units. 

Job Title: Application Advisor Intern

Location: Virtual

Duration: Fall 2026 – 8 months (September 2026 – April 2027)

Availability: *Full-time availability of 37.5 – 40 hours weekly is required to be eligible for this opportunity.

Benefits for Students: 

• Gain exposure to real-world competitive strategy in one of the fastest growing Human Capital Management technology companies.
• Develop practical skills in market intelligence, data analytics, and business storytelling.
• Contribute to projects that have a visible impact on company positioning.
• Build skills that will set you apart for a career in software marketing, product development, sales development or corporate strategy.

About the opportunity:

Dayforce is a global Human Capital Management leader committed to making work life better for employees, customers, and partners. As an Application Advisor Intern, you will support innovation projects within the Sales and Solution Advisory organization, with a focus on frontend UI/UX design, customer-facing digital experiences, conversational interfaces, and AI-enabled workflow improvements. You will help design, test, document, and improve tools that make information easier to access, understand, and use across customer engagement and sales advisory experiences, making this a strong opportunity for a student interested in UX, frontend development, enterprise software, and emerging AI technologies.

What you’ll get to do:

• Support the design and improvement of customer-facing, AI-enabled solutions across Sales and Solution Advisory workflows.
• Create wireframes, mockups, prototypes, user flows, journey maps, and interface recommendations.
• Review workflows and recommend improvements to navigation, interaction patterns, content hierarchy, accessibility, responsiveness, and visual polish.
• Translate business needs and feedback into frontend requirements, user stories, design ideas, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with Solution Advisors, Sales leaders, Product stakeholders, and technical partners to test, document, and refine new experiences.
• Evaluate AI-assisted experiences for clarity, usefulness, consistency, source alignment, and user trust.
• Support Application Advisor activities, including demo configuration and maintenance, documentation updates, sales enablement materials, and process improvements.

Skills and experience we value:

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Human-Computer Interaction, UX Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Business Technology Management, Data Analytics, Business, Commerce, or a related field.
• Strong interest in frontend UI/UX design, user-centered design, customer-facing digital experiences, enterprise software, and AI-enabled applications.
• Understanding of UX design principles, including user flows, usability, accessibility, information architecture, interaction design, responsive design, and content hierarchy.
• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, journey maps, mockups, or design recommendations.
• Familiarity with frontend concepts such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, component-based design, design systems, APIs, or web application behavior.
• Ability to learn technical concepts related to AI-enabled applications, including prompts, knowledge bases, retrieval, model outputs, citations, data quality, and response evaluation.
• Strong communication, critical thinking, attention to detail, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Nice to have:

• Experience with UX design and prototyping tools such as Figma, FigJam, Miro, Adobe XD, or similar.
• Exposure to React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, GitHub, design systems, reusable components, or accessibility best practices.
• Familiarity with AI tools, large language models, conversational interfaces, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, or knowledge management systems.
• Experience writing user stories, product requirements, acceptance criteria, usability notes, or technical documentation.
• Interest in enterprise software, SaaS, HCM, sales enablement, customer experience, solution consulting, or data/reporting tools such as Power BI.

We understand that no matter where you are, choosing a new employer is always one of life’s most stressful events. We encourage you to check us out at Dayforce.com or follow us on LinkedIn to learn more about how we are impacting the world of work for our customers, employees and you!

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