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Messa

AI-powered evaluation layer for hiring

Generalist Intern

Fall 2026
No salary listed
Internship
Remote in USA
RemoteRemote within the United States; the Bay Area is a plus.
Business & Strategy

About the job

Requirements
  • Be a recent graduate, current student, or have 0–3 years of career experience.
  • Have built something personally meaningful, such as a side project, community, workflow, or campaign.
  • Be genuinely proficient with artificial intelligence tools, including building with them.
  • Write clearly and think quickly.
  • Work remotely with proactive and visible communication and without close supervision.
Responsibilities
  • Optimize internal tools such as Claude, Notion, and Slack to save time.
  • Conduct customer and market research, including identifying 500 target companies.
  • Support go-to-market activities such as outbound outreach, demo preparation, and customer relationship management.
  • Support the product by listening to user calls, identifying patterns, and documenting insights.
  • Write clear briefs, documents, and memoranda.
Desired Qualifications
  • A computer science, design, or business background.
  • Bilingual English and Spanish communication.
  • Human resources technology or recruiting exposure.

About the company

Messa provides an AI-powered evaluation layer that plugs into a company’s hiring workflow to help teams make clearer, more consistent decisions. It generates AI-based candidate shortlists, customized interview guides, and evidence-based scorecards, with an on-interview Sidekick that guides interviewers in real time. The system learns from each interview to progressively refine evaluation criteria, while final hiring decisions stay with the client. Its goal is to move organizations away from guesswork toward a structured, fact-based hiring process that yields more reliable outcomes.

Company Size

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Company Stage

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Total Funding

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Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2025

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Messa's April 2026 product refresh showed active shipping across shortlist scoring and interview assistance.
  • The site logged 280 evaluated candidates on April 24, 2026, proving real usage.
  • Messa was still hiring in July 2026, including engineering and product roles from its Ashby board.

What critics are saying

  • Messa stayed unfunded through early 2026, limiting runway against better-capitalized HR software.
  • GTM Lead posting on May 21, 2026 says Messa is still building its first playbook.
  • AI recruiting features from Greenhouse, Ashby, and Google threaten Messa's differentiation by 2027.

What makes Messa unique

  • Diego Meller launched Messa in October 2025 around evidence-based, human-decided hiring.
  • Messa integrates with Greenhouse, Ashby, BambooHR, and Lever without migration friction.
  • Sidekick and pre-filled scorecards embed structured interviewing directly inside live conversations.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options
  • Company Equity
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance