2027 Legal Summer Intern

Location: New York, New York, United States Department: Internship

The Role

We are looking for an intern to join our Legal team for Summer 2027. This role sits where the legal practice meets technology: your main project will be using AI tools to change how the team captures, organizes, and applies its knowledge.

At the center of the internship, you will build and maintain a dashboard to both memorialize/categorize as well as produce/query investor documentation. This dashboard will importantly provide the firm with a single, clear view of investor commitments currently spread across various documents.

You will also use AI to streamline other legal functions. That includes building playbooks that capture the team's negotiating positions and systems to preserve institutional knowledge.

By the end of the summer, you will have delivered a lasting, practical tool. You will also understand how in-house legal work supports a leading investment platform.

What You’ll Do

You will work across functions with colleagues outside the legal department to design and build the investor documentation dashboard. That means turning legal concepts into a tool that is structured, easy to use, and valuable to the whole business.

You will also develop and refine legal playbooks and knowledge management tools on your own. You will be expected to take ownership, use good judgment, and bring a clear point of view on how the team's knowledge can best be organized and shared.

Throughout the summer, you will apply AI technologies to automate, organize, and improve legal workflows. The goal is to replace manual processes and free the Legal team for higher-value work.

You will also have the opportunity to take part in one-day rotations through different sub-teams within Legal, which will show you the full range of the team's work across funds, corporate, trading documents, and portfolio management

What You’ll Bring

You are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Law degree (with 1- 2 years left in your program).

You are highly skilled with AI tools and have shown that you can apply them creatively to complex, open-ended problems.

You solve problems well and work comfortably both in collaborative settings and on your own, whether you are aligning stakeholders across teams or driving a project forward independently.

You are deadline driven and can complete the dashboard, playbooks, and any other assigned work by end of summer.

You are excited to spend a summer working where legal expertise, technology, and investment strategy come together.

Our Internship

Kick-start your career in finance with the Schonfeld Summer Internship! Over the course of 10 action-packed weeks, you will have the opportunity to build solutions that tackle real-world challenges and leave a lasting impact on the firm. As an intern, you’ll join a close-knit team that is ready to support your growth and accelerate your career. We will pair you with a dedicated manager and a mentor who’ll guide your development over the course of the internship and beyond. Throughout the program, you will have the chance to connect with senior leaders through a series of learning sessions, attend hands-on skills workshops, network at social events and get a behind-the-scenes look at how various functions power the firm. We’ll empower you to bring your ideas to life and make an impact.

Who We Are

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture

At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.

The annual base pay for this role is expected to be between $85,000 and $95,000 which will be prorated based on internship start and end date. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications and experience and level of education.

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