We expect interns to spend at least 50% of their working hours inside the office. We believe in-person work is conducive to building a strong company culture and deeply enriches the intern experience. General intern program meetings and intern track meetings are in person and account for three to four hours of your in-person hours. The onus is on you to schedule the remaining in-person hours. In total, we also expect interns to work ~12-20 hours/week, with flexibility granted for the occasional ‘hell week.

Every Engage intern learns about what it means to be an excellent professional in a workplace, how to conduct oneself in the presence of startup CEO’s and senior corporate executives, how to produce an effective presentation, and how to think and speak with clarity and precision. However, every internship track also teaches unique skills:

Operations Analyst – Operations interns handle a broad array of tasks revolving around our bi-annual Enterprise Go-To-Market Program for selected entrepreneurs. From this experience, interns learn a keen sense of time management and taking creative ownership. Incredibly organized and detail-oriented individuals thrive in this track to work collaboratively and implement learning goals and objectives. Excellent writing, effective communication, and organization skills mesh into an end-to-end program experience that is the crux of the value Engage offers its founders, executives, and team.

Design & Communications Analyst – Design interns strengthen Engage’s brand identity. This responsibility requires an interplay between aesthetics underscored by a design language to share how outsiders perceive our firm. Interns can expect to become equipped with a strong working knowledge of Adobe’s Creative Suite to build graphics and videos for display on Engage’s website, newsletter, and social media accounts. Interns in this track learn to use composition, color, typography, and hierarchy to create coherent visual stories.

Insights Analyst – Insights interns will become effective at synthesizing unstructured information while sifting through startups that may potentially resolve our corporate partners’ business problems. This also conveys lessons on extracting pertinent information from conversations, interpreting subtle company signals, researching competitors, and discerning which information is prudent to executives. Furthermore, interfacing with our corporate partners and startup founders conveys lessons on professional conduct that helps you regardless of your future occupational trajectory.

Investments Analyst  –  Investment interns conduct due diligence on startups interested in Engage’s program. This track teaches interns how to employ data to find promising startups quickly. Then during the diligence process, you learn to evaluate a startup’s product and market fit, competitive landscape, market sizing, and financial diligence which quickly teaches you how to make judgments in situations with incomplete information.

Operations Analyst – Operations interns execute Engage’s ten-week Go to Market Program for startup founders. This execution includes everything from scheduling events to building experiences for our founders and corporate executives. Along the way, you will refine your business and technical skills while generating content for Engage’s online presence and intern database. You will facilitate Engage’s largest events, working on the backend to help host both in-person and online events for our executives, and portfolio companies. Finally, you will have the opportunity to work on interdisciplinary projects, incorporating the work of the Design and Insights teams to create finished deliverables.
Common Traits: Organized, meticulous, strong communicator (both written and oral).

Design $ Communications Analyst – A typical day involves working in the Adobe creative suite with apps like Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Though, during video and animation projects, After Effects is workhorse. Projects change over the semester and include image and video projects. For example, a common project will require creating social media graphics and brochures/ magazines for outbound communications. This creative process is iterative and requires collaboration with your manager to receive feedback and refine your ideas and techniques.
Common Traits: Creative, meticulous, independent.

Insights Analyst – 80% of your responsibilities involve finding startups that are relevant to Engage’s corporate partners. In a typical day, you can expect to chat with your manager about the priorities of our corporate partners, collate a list of startups that fit these strategic themes, and lead outreach for promising candidates to explore whether they are a good fit for our program. After confirming a fit, you flesh out a detailed one pager that will be reviewed by our executive working groups.
Common Traits: Curious, independent, confident public speaker, professional

Investments Analyst – Investment interns commonly find themselves sifting through investment candidates or financial metrics to decide whether a company is a good fit for Engage or our sister organization, Tech Square Ventures. Investment and insights interns share a common sourcing process, but they distinguish themselves in the due diligence process: crafting competitive market landscapes and pouring over financial reports to understand the fundamentals of a company.
Common Traits: Analytical, independent, quantitative.

Inter-track mingling takes several forms. Most often, we intermingle during our ‘Friday Intern Meetings’ where we learn practical lessons on how to reach success in venture capital, academic pursuits, and our personal lives. Additionally, interns lean on one another for projects that require a diverse array of skills. For example, our annual report to investors and corporate partners requires contributions from all internship tracks.

Most crucially, our Go-to-Market program is all hands on deck, requiring support for all interns, especially for the in-person section of the program.

Engage interns get out what they put in. For those that go the extra mile, are accountable, and consistently offer valuable contributions will grow in their responsibilities. Additionally, interns who extend their commitment with Engage will see more face time and potential internship opportunities with our corporate partners. Similarly, there are opportunities for summer internships at Engage for those who wish to deepen their relationship to the firm.

Many interns return to work with Engage for many semesters and even years. Especially as older interns graduate or move on to other opportunities, Engage encourages younger interns to fill their shoes by taking on greater responsibilities. These leadership opportunities include running intern meetings, working on individual one-off projects for corporate partners, and managing interns in your track.

Maddie Rohrer entered Engage in the fall of her senior year. Already intrigued by the startup ecosystem’s dynamic schedules and tight-knit teams, Engage offered her an added opportunity to gain exposure to a diverse array of corporates. Maddie took full advantage of the opportunity. She extracted lessons from every interaction and improved her organization, leadership, and soft skills as a result. Her “willingness to learn” and “over-communication” coalesced into her rapid ascension up the learning curve and making her an invaluable part of Engage team. In fact, Maddie became such an integral part of the team that Engage offered her a full-time offer after she graduated, where she supports the Enterprise Go-To-Market program as an Operations Analyst.

Yashovarman Singh joined Engage at the onset of his junior year with one goal in mind: enriching his understanding of the innovation economy. Yasho knew early on that he wanted to climb the ranks at Engage. His leadership style was distinct. Yasho unapologetically insisted that his team always surpassed expectations while still delivering on time. Outside of his team, he tracked the heartbeat of the firm and dedicating himself to both predicting and acting on the firm’s looming needs. After two years at Engage, Yasho now leads the Insights Track and directs sourcing initiatives across the six strategic themes. In the fall, Yasho will be headed to New York to work with Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking practice.

Additionally, Engage interns have secured internships and full-time roles at Cloverly, Create-X team, Canary (GT student startup), Heartbeat (GT alumni startup), Accenture, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, The Home Depot, Square/ Block, Tesla, Cruise, Nuro, Stord, Google, Anthos Capital, Microsoft, Bain & Company, Georgia-Pacific Ventures, and AT&T.

No. If you have an interest in a role, display strong leadership potential, and a strong interest in venture capital you are a strong candidate for the track. Engage has had successful interns with a range of experiences, majors, and backgrounds across all tracks.

For context, in the past, we’ve had interns from 12 different majors including Business Administration, Master’s in Business Administration, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Design, Architecture, Computer Science, Computational Media, Fine Arts, Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Design, Literature, Media, and Communications.

With that said, each track tends to attract people from certain majors:

• Operations Analyst – Business, Mechanical Engineering, BME
• Design & Communication Analyst – Artistic Majors: LMC, Graphic Design, Architecture, etc.
• Insights Analyst – Business, CS, and Industrial Engineering
• Investments Analyst – Business, Economics, and Finance