Level Up Ventures Intern at Hearst · 300 West…

Summary: Hearst is a leading global media and information company dedicated to innovation and integrity. The Level Up Ventures Intern will build an AI tool to help identify and evaluate founders, focusing on data scraping, prompt engineering, and dashboard creation. Responsibilities: - Build simple, effective scripts to pull and organize data from public sources (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, news, niche databases) - Use large language models (LLMs) to analyze that data and extract signals of "entrepreneurial drive" and unique founder perspectives - 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