Job Description

Greetings. My name is Jeff Hall, CEO of TheLatest.com (and OUR NATIONAL CONVERSATION).

TheLatest.com is working in cooperation with our nonprofit, OUR NATIONAL CONVERSATION (OurNationalConversation.org).

“THE LATEST” is a great brand name because it’s so versatile:

• EVERYONE wants to know the latest ;
• In today’s attention economy, everyone wants to BE the latest ;
• Marketers all want their goods and services to be PERCEIVED as the latest ;
• And if someone asks you, “Heard the latest?” right away, you want to know what it is.

We have a very specific idea for what we want to do with this URL. There is an AI angle to our concept. We seek a handful of AI programming/data/computer science interns to jump on board and bring this idea to life.

Let’s not become totally fixated on this “one big idea”; we think our idea is good, but we want to build a platform that’s very flexible, so as the AI world evolves, TheLatest.com can evolve with it.

We like working with students because young people understand tech better than old people. Young people – or some of them, anyway – are willing to take a risk, because they don't have to worry about paying the mortgage.

If you are looking for an assignment where we say to you, “Here, take this plan, follow it and bring it to life,” that will get us started.

But that’s NOT really what this assignment is all about.

What we really want is a team of HIGHLY CREATIVE technologists who can tell US what we should do next. Many programmers are brilliant but lack creativity; we seek brilliant programmers who are ALSO creative.

We don’t want to say too much more about our idea at point. But we look forward to an action-packed interview in which we will go deep on all this. When we are ready to share our idea, you will be required to sign an NDA.

There is no pay at this time; you are doing this for the learning experience. But if TheLatest.com takes off, we intend to be fair with everyone who helps make this happen. We have content teams, marketing teams and administrative teams working on this, also.

If interested, please send a cover letter and a resume detailing:

• Your qualifications, particularly as they pertain to AI;
• An example of your demonstrated creativity, if you have one (maybe you don’t yet have one because you are still young, so this isn’t a requirement); and
• A statement telling us why “you’re the one.”

If you want to score extra brownie points , send us your ideas on what YOU would do with this amazing URL. Those with good ideas automatically rise to the top of the heap. You will just have to trust us to be fair if and when we adopt some or all of your ideas.

If you have a truly amazing idea that would benefit from use of the URL “TheLatest.com” or “TheLatest.ai,” we’ll happily sign YOUR NDA and listen to YOUR proposal.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to hearing from you.

Qualifications

Tech prowess. Creativity. Vision. Will power. Connections in the tech/VC worlds, if you have them.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.