Hospitality Business Intern (AI Startup)
Role Description As a Hospitality Research Intern at Multimodal Ventures, you will help us uncover real-world insights from the ground to inform new venture ideas in hospitality. This role is less about desk research and more about learning directly from people in the field. You’ll spend time speaking with frontline hospitality staff and operators to understand how things actually work day-to-day — what’s broken, what’s inefficient, and where opportunities exist. Your work will directly shape which ideas we explore and build. This is a remote, part-time internship (~3–6 hours/week) with an initial one-month commitment and potential for extension. New York based only.
What You'll Do
- Speak directly with hospitality professionals (servers, baristas, restaurant staff, hotel managers) to understand day-to-day challenges
- Proactively reach out to people (in-person or online) to gather insights
- Capture and summarize key takeaways from conversations in a simple, structured way
- Identify recurring pain points and contribute to potential product or venture ideas
- Use AI tools to help synthesize interviews and spot patterns faster
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience in hospitality (F&B, cafes, restaurants, hotels)
- Comfortable talking to new people and initiating conversations
- Naturally curious — you like understanding how things actually work behind the scenes
- Observant and able to notice patterns across different experiences
- Reliable and able to follow through on outreach and conversations
- Interest in startups, product thinking, or how new ideas get validated
- Open to experimenting with AI tools in your workflow
About Multimodal Ventures Multimodal Ventures is a venture studio building the next generation of AI‑native startups, focused on the future of work and education. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies like generative AI, the studio helps transform ideas into scalable ventures. With a world-class team based in Hong Kong and the United States, the studio's mission is to create AI‑native ventures that prepare individuals, teams, and institutions for this transformation, bridging technological possibility and human potential. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job