--- title: 'Data Intern at Hook Music' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-intern-hook-music-new-york-z0sf44qkkcnx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-29' --- # Data Intern at Hook Music - **Company:** Hook Music - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hookmusic/47054fff-7117-4c31-9298-7698c79999af ## Job description ## About Hook Hook is a social music platform, backed by top-tier investors, building the next generation of music discovery, fan expression, and creator growth. Fans use Hook to legally remix, mashup, and reimagine the songs they love, then share their creations with the world. We work with artists, labels, and rights holders to turn passive listening into active participation. ## Role Overview We are looking for a Data Intern to work directly alongside our Data Insights lead, keeping our tracking accurate, our reporting current, and supporting analyses across the company. You will own day-to-day tracking QA and recurring reports, then take on analysis projects as you earn trust, working with our product, engineering, growth, marketing, business development, and content teams. This is a 10-20 hours per week role based at our TriBeCa, NYC office. ## What You’ll Do - Check that event tracking is implemented correctly across iOS and web, and flag gaps or broken events to engineering - Maintain tracking documentation, such as event specs and naming conventions - Build and maintain recurring reports and dashboards for product, growth, and leadership - Pull data to answer ad hoc questions, then summarize findings and caveats in plain language - Support analyses for Marketing, Business Development, Content, and Product, spanning user behavior, conversion and acquisition, content management, and industry-wide trends Required Skills & Experience - Currently a senior undergraduate or a master’s student - Strong analytical thinking - Detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines - Clear written communication, including the ability to explain results to non-technical teammates - Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment ## Preferred Skills & Experience - Working knowledge of SQL or another way of querying and analyzing data (Python or advanced Excel/Sheets) - A previous analytics or data internship - Familiarity with event tracking, attribution, or A/B testing concepts - Experience working at an early-stage startup - Passion for music and technology. Music industry experience is not required. ## Why This Role Matters This role will help make sure Hook’s teams are working from numbers they can trust as the consumer app scales, and will shape how we track, report, and analyze across the company. ## Compensation This internship is unpaid and available for school credit. The internship offers the opportunity for exceptional interns to grow into a longer-term or full-time role at Hook. Work authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Hook is unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of an employment visa (e.g., H-1B) for this role, now or in the future. Gain hands-on experience at the intersection of music, data, and creativity—and help shape the future of how fans connect with music. ## About Hook Music ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Hook Music is a venture-backed social music platform that lets users remix and mashup songs with intuitive creative tools and share them across social networks. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; last raised $10M in February 2026) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Gaurav Sharma ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Social music technology / AI-powered audio remixing - **Target customers**: B2C – music lovers, content creators, artists; B2B partnerships with labels and rights holders - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Turn the songs you love into sounds you can play with.” – Hook empowers fans to express themselves by remixing music with zero learning curve, while ensuring artists and rightsholders are respected and rewarded. ## Products & Services - **Hook App (iOS/Android)**: A social music app that provides remix and mashup tools, video editing capabilities, and direct sharing to platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Integrates with SoundCloud and Snapchat Lenses. - **Creative Tools**: Intuitive, AI-assisted audio manipulation (pitch, tempo, effects) designed for both casual fans and creators. - **Partnership Platform**: Licenses catalog from major labels and artists to enable legal remixing and user-generated content. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metrics**: - Annual Revenue: ~$200,000 (as per LinkedIn) - Total Funding: $22.3M across 4 rounds (Seed rounds in 2023–2025, Series A in Feb 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Lead Series A investor: Khosla Ventures - Other investors: Point72 Ventures, Waverley Capital, Imaginary Ventures, The Raine Group, Palm Tree Crew Investments (Kygo’s fund) - Partners: SoundCloud, Snapchat, Too Lost (distribution) - **Growth Signals**: - Named by Billboard as one of the Top AI Music Companies Leading the Future of the Industry in 2026 - Headcount grew ~26% YoY to 33 employees (as of mid-2026) - Launched interactive remix Lenses on Snapchat - 6 active job postings as of July 2026 ## Competitive Advantages - **Licensed Content**: Partnerships with major labels and rightsholders allow legal remixing, differentiating from unlicensed competitors. - **AI + Creative Tools**: Proprietary AI for audio analysis and remixing combined with a frictionless mobile interface. - **Social Integration**: Deep ties with SoundCloud, Snapchat, and TikTok enable viral sharing loops. - **Founding Team**: Led by CEO Gaurav Sharma with strong engineering, AI, and music industry talent (e.g., Katerina Kosta – Head of AI; Prash Mistry – Head of Audio Development). ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Enhancing mobile remixing and video editing capabilities; building out the creator community. - **Partnership Growth**: Scaling label integrations and exploring new distribution channels (e.g., Snapchat, SoundCloud). - **Talent Acquisition**: Hiring across engineering (Android, iOS, backend), product management, brand communications, and creator partnerships. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast-paced startup with a mission to make music participatory; emphasis on creativity and technology. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Headquartered in New York, NY; hybrid likely (not explicitly stated). Roles may require presence in NYC. - **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: - Work with cutting-edge audio AI and mobile tech (tech stack includes GraphQL, Python, PyTorch, Kotlin, TypeScript, Terraform, etc.) - Lean engineering team (~9 technical staff) offering high ownership and impact. - Opportunities to shape the future of music interaction in partnership with major artists and labels. - **Recent departures**: COO/CPO Simmi Singh left in Jan 2026 – may indicate restructuring or growth pivot. ## Sources 1. [hookmusic.com](https://www.hookmusic.com/) 2. [hookmusic.com/careers](https://www.hookmusic.com/careers) 3. [hookmusic.com/about](https://www.hookmusic.com/about) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hook-media) 5. 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