Early-Stage Member Experience Intern - 1871
1871 Member Companies, United States

About Us

The story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 isn't really about the fire. It's about what happened next, A remarkable moment when the most brilliant engineers, architects, and inventors came together to build a new city. Their innovations born of passion and practical ingenuity shaped not just Chicago but also the modern world. What started 140 years ago continues to this day.

1871 exists to inspire, equip, and support founders, growth scalers, and innovators in building great businesses. We deliver unfair advantages at scale s. The team supports ~420 young companies. 300+ growth stage members and 100+ partners made up of Chicago's brightest digital designers, engineers, and leaders shaping new technologies, disrupting old business models, and resetting the boundaries of what's possible.

Come to a place where you can share ideas, make mistakes, partner with others, work hard, grow professionally, and change the world with a bit of luck. If that sounds like you, join us!

1871 seeks a professionally driven, detail-oriented, and highly motivated intern to support its Early-Stage Member Experience Team. The 1871 Early-Stage Member Experience Team works closely with all parts of our business to ensure an impactful end-to-end experience for our early-stage members and startup founders.

Duties and responsibilities

This intern will be working with the Director of Membership and Manager of Membership to manage the current Early-Stage Member CRM + database and the Early-Stage Alumni database. Project components are:

1. Streamlining data migration from Hubspot (lead generation) to our member CRM
2. Streamlining data migration and coding APIs from CRM to trackers in google spreadsheets
3. Developing processes to update Alumni data better and the progress alumni startups are making
4. Creating a better mechanism to tack the demographic breakdown of our community
5. Develop a data report to track member engagement

Responsibilities:

• Track and manage data on airtable, 1871 CRMS, excel and google sheets
• Managing data from CRM and knowing to pull and create reports
• Understand the ins and outs of the 1871 CRM
• Be able to propose new processes and ideate on better ways to stitch together data

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal, verbal (including phone work), and written communication skills
• Basic computer processing skills, including Microsoft Office and Internet
• College coursework or comparable work experience preferred
• Previous internship experience is preferred
• Preference will be given to college juniors and seniors
• Interest in the Tech/Entrepreneurship and Non-Profit Sectors
• Experience coding APIs and coordinating plug-ins to streamline data processing
• Can pick up new platforms and complicated processes quickly and identify areas for improvement
• Proficient in data analytics

Benefits

Benefits: Letters of recommendation from our leadership team, college credit ( upon school approval), work with the best and brightest entrepreneurs and startups in the country, develop in-demand skills, and flesh out your resume with Context, Action, and Results

Time: Monday - Thursday, 10 am-4 pm (hours and time commitment may be flexible if agreed upon by the supervisor and the internship candidate prior to the start of the internship)

Job Rewards and Benefits