Walter Wu

I'm Walter Wu, building HiRey — a trusted people network built from real meetings. I want to meet people who are trying to break into AI and technology: career switchers, students, early builders, and anyone shipping their first AI project. If that's you, tell me what you're working on or what you're trying to move into. I'm happy to talk through what to build, who to talk to, and where the real openings are — and if I know the right person, I'll make the introduction myself.

Internship: Connector / People Network Intern Immediate Start Posted by: HiRey HiRey is building a trusted human connection network amplified by AI. Valuable connections are not created by simply running an automatic match or dropping people into a group chat. A good introduction usually requires someone to understand both sides' real needs, judge whether the connection is worth making, and put basic trust behind it. AI helps us find people, organize information, remind us to follow up, and record outcomes. But judgment, trust, and boundaries still need humans. That is why we are hiring Connector interns. Your job is not to collect contacts. Your job is to help HiRey discover real needs, identify the right people, make useful introductions happen, and record the process and outcome of each connection. Strong Connectors will also receive public visibility through HiRey and gradually build their own trusted network and professional identity. What you will do 1. Discover real needs across schools, communities, events, startup circles, and job-seeking networks: people looking for jobs, internships, cofounders, investors, customers, suppliers, experts, or other valuable connections. 2. Talk with people to understand who they need, why they need it now, and what a valuable outcome looks like. 3. Help the team judge whether someone should enter HiRey's connection network and whether we know the right people to introduce. 4. Organize background, needs, tags, possible connection directions, priority, and follow-up status. 5. Recommend suitable people, help write introduction messages, and help both sides schedule conversations or meetings. 6. Record whether meetings happened, what outcomes came from them, where things got stuck, and how to improve next time. 7. Help operate the Connector network across campus ambassadors, community builders, founders, investors, recruiters, candidates, and industry professionals. 8. Join or help organize online/offline events and turn people met there into real relationships that can be followed up, introduced, and verified. 9. Improve scripts, workflows, tagging systems, user interview questions, and AI-assisted connection methods. Example If you know a student looking for an AI product internship and also know an early-stage startup hiring reliable early team members, your job is not simply to forward two contact cards. You first judge whether the student's background fits, whether the startup's need is real, why the two sides are worth talking to each other, how the introduction should be framed, and whether there is any follow-up after the conversation. The goal is to turn real people, real needs, and real opportunities into outcomes that can be tracked and verified. Who we are looking for 1. Proactive, curious, and willing to listen carefully to what people actually need. 2. Sensitive to people and opportunities; able to judge who should meet whom instead of simply forwarding information. 3. Reliable, strong at follow-up, and able to clearly record introductions, feedback, and results. 4. Comfortable reaching out to new people without spamming, mass messaging, or overpromising. 5. Experience in campus organizations, community operations, BD, recruiting, sales, event planning, or startup projects is a plus. 6. Interested in startups, AI, recruiting, human networks, social products, or platform companies. 7. Able to commit steady time each week, ideally for 2-3 months or longer. 8. Respectful of privacy and boundaries; understands that networks are trust relationships, not disposable resources. What you will get 1. Real participation in HiRey's 0-to-1 process of validating a Connector network. 2. Training in user interviews, needs discovery, BD, community growth, and high-quality follow-up. 3. Exposure to founders, investors, recruiters, candidates, industry professionals, and strong peers. 4. The chance to help design a human-plus-AI connection workflow, not just execute tasks. 5. Direct outcomes: a good connection can lead to a job, collaboration, customer, funding opportunity, or long-term relationship. 6. Public visibility through HiRey. Strong Connectors may be featured on public pages, community content, event introductions, or case studies. 7. The opportunity to build your own Connector profile showing your background, focus areas, connectable communities, and successful connections. 8. Strong performers may receive long-term internship, full-time, recommendation, project proof, or deeper early-team opportunities. Who this is for This internship is a fit for students who want to practice business judgment, communication, network building, and project follow-through. It is also a strong fit for people interested in entrepreneurship, investing, BD, product, operations, recruiting, HR, consulting, or any path that depends on working well with people over time. One-line summary A Connector uses care, reliability, and judgment to connect real people, real needs, and real opportunities, making each connection trackable and meaningful. Application Apply through this Hi listing. Candidates who can start immediately are especially welcome.