Level Up Ventures Intern at Hearst in New York, NY

Summary: Hearst is a leading global, diversified information, services, and media company dedicated to innovating and informing audiences. The intern will build a functional AI tool to help the team find and evaluate founders more efficiently, including responsibilities such as scraping data, prompt engineering, and creating an internal dashboard. Responsibilities: - Scrape & Structure: Build simple, effective scripts to pull and organize data from public sources (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, news, niche databases) - Prompt Engineering: Use large language models (LLMs) to analyze that data and extract signals of "entrepreneurial drive" and unique founder perspectives - Ship a Tool: Create a simple internal dashboard (using something like Streamlit or Retool) that helps our team prioritize our deal flow Required Qualifications: - Comfortable in Python and enjoy developing prototypes that deliver practical results - Have experimented with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs and understand how to write a good prompt to get structured data out of unstructured text - Can take an open-ended goal ('find me founders in the Midwest doing X') and figure out how to get the data Required Skills: Python, Prompt Engineering, Data Scraping Important Skills: OpenAI API Nice-to-Have Skills: Independent Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and life insurance, 401(k), Paid holidays, Paid time off, Employee assistance programs, And more.