Venture Intern, AI Innovation

About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

Overview:

We are seeking a Venture Intern focused on AI Innovation to help ideate, validate, and launch AI-driven startups from concept to early traction. You will work at the intersection of technology, product, and entrepreneurship to turn emerging AI capabilities into scalable businesses

Roles and Responsibilities:

• This is not an “AI strategy” role — this is a 0→1 builder position for someone who can architect intelligent systems, validate markets, and spin out venture-scale businesses
• The ideal candidate must be able to do rapid prototyping, and readily build relationships across startups, venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and other ecosystem partners
• Discern how NewsBreak can support project/portfolio company growth trajectories through technical enablement (user acquisition, product-led growth, monetization etc.)

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Must have: Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields (undergraduate, masters or PhD) from top tier University, able to code.
• Previous working experience in Software engineering, ML engineering experience
• Founder’s mindset, builder’s mentality and strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills and strong executive presence with an ability to present thoughtful input to decision-making

Bonus point:

• Founder Experience
• Progressive business experience in early-stage venture investing or from top-tier MBA
• Existing network in the San Francisco Bay Area’s startup ecosystem
• Passion for innovative technologies and artificial intelligence, with a strong pulse on key trends, themes and players