--- title: 'Product Intern at Hook Music' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-intern-hook-music-new-york-4aqkxqcm301k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Product Intern at Hook Music - **Company:** Hook Music - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hookmusic/fb45d28d-625f-490d-8a59-701d53fa22c1 ## 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. We turn the songs people love into sounds they can play with — enabling fans and creators to reimagine music through intuitive, remix-friendly experiences with zero learning curve. By partnering directly with artists, labels, and rightsholders, Hook ensures music is discovered, shared, and expressed in ways that respect and reward the people behind it. At Hook, music isn't just consumed — it's experienced, expressed, and made personal. ## Role Overview We are looking for a Product Intern to work directly alongside our product lead on Hook's consumer app across iOS and web. In this role, you will assist with day-to-day product operations as the app scales. You will own incoming marketing requests, product trackers, and follow-through across projects, and take on workstreams of your own as you earn trust. You will work with Hook's product, engineering, design, marketing, and growth teams. You must be detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines at once. ## What You'll Do - Oversee incoming marketing requests: scope them, route them to design or engineering, and track them to delivery - Build and maintain the trackers product, engineering, and marketing work from, such as launch checklists, request queues, and status boards - Keep Jira tickets accurate, run follow-ups after meetings, and flag blockers and slipping dates early - Help pull and analyze product data to answer questions from the product and growth teams - Check event tracking and follow up on growth experiments with the product lead - Represent product in cross-functional calls with engineering, design, and marketing, and drive decisions to closure Required Skills & Experience - Currently a senior undergraduate or a master's student - Project management experience from an internship, job, student organization, or side project - Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines - Excellent written communication and organizational skills - Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment - Able to work in person from our TriBeCa, NYC office ## Preferred Skills & Experience - A previous product management internship - A data or engineering background, such as SQL, analytics tools, or a technical degree - Familiarity with Jira, Figma, or product analytics tools like Mixpanel - 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 shape how Hook's product team runs as the consumer app scales and help define the processes product, engineering, and marketing use to ship. ## 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. ## 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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