Our strategy department is responsible for identifying the opportunities in digital for our clients through understanding people and how digital technology affects their behavior, delivering strategies that move people closer to our client’s brand, and helping to develop creative solutions that meet the needs of both our clients and their consumers. The department relies on creative thinkers with a healthy obsession with digital technology, who are driven to discover what makes people tick.

The Strategy department at Mingle consists of designers, digital strategists, data analysts, UX specialists, and community managers and you’ll be given the chance to learn from all of them. However, you’ll really get to develop your skills and experience when you get to work with wider agency and take ownership of your own projects.

You’ll need to be a fast learner, who’s prepared to work across a range of work and embrace new challenges on a daily basis.

You must be interested in:

• Digital technology, social media, and platforms
• Getting under the skin of brands and consumers

Skills we’d love to see:

• A combination of analytical skills, curiosity, and a strong interest in people
• Experience with Lean UX, and Lean Startup Methodologies
• Super brownie points if you can code in HTML/CSS
• Written communication skills
• Ability to construct and deliver presentations quickly
• Competent numeracy skills and ability to work with large amounts of data
• Able to work as part of team
• Ability simplify and pull out key insights from large amounts of data and research
• Ability to work under pressure

Start Date: July 1, 2013

Duration:  2 months

How to apply:  Please send your CV and tell us in no more than 250 words why you should be our next intern. Applicants who submit creative videos will be given preference.

We offer you a great environment to work with passionate people in a dynamic and highly successful agency.

Mingle Media is an equal opportunity employer who encourages diversity! Send your resumes to careers@minglemedia.co

We’re looking for someone who’s as obsessed with clean design & data as we are. You’ll work under the direction of our expert Design and Marketing team leader to enhance our users’ visual experience. We look for people with bold ideas, opinions, and an interest in what we do. This is a great opportunity to learn loads in a super fast-paced environment and sharpen your teeth on the quick-growing market of social, & mobile advertising.

You:

• Are creative.
• Work well with others.
• Have a keen eye and attention to detail.
• Are passionate about typography.
• Have Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and preferably InDesign skills.
• Know what good photography looks like (bonus points if you’re a photographer yourself).
• Will get extra triple super bonus points if you’re an illustrator.
• Love to turn around work swiftly and efficiently.
• Understands & appreciates design thinking
• Pick things up quickly.

US:

• Offer the opportunity to join a promising company at an early stage of growth.
• Promise your input will make a difference. You’ll be involved in everything from brainstorming straight through to delivery and implementation.
• Have a diverse staff from various backgrounds and a great company culture.
• Awesome loft style office located in the heart of SOMA, the hub of startup activity in San Francisco

Email your resume to careers@minglemedia.co, and make sure you include a link to a portfolio, all resumes submitted with out a portfolio link will not be considered for the position. You can also follow Mingle on Twitter for more info!

Today, strategists have a world of data at their fingertips. They don’t have to just build something and hope customers respond. They can see in real time whether that market exists, as well as what they and their friends respond to most. Consequently, the successful businesses are those who pay attention to changes in customer behavior, then continually iterate their product or service to respond to those changes.

This concept formed the foundation of the Lean Startup movement – an idea popularized by famed Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Ries. In this video, Alistair Croll, Solve for Interesting founder and “Lean Analytics” author, explains how companies can leverage new technologies to find and use the data to support this startup process.

He suggests companies:

• Pinpoint the business’s most important metric for growth (e.g. revenue)

• Identify the business model’s riskiest aspect

• Establish a Minimum Viable Product, or a strategy to test the risk against the growth metric

• Analyze the results

• Modify the business model based on the results

• Repeat the process until you discover your market

Watch the video below to learn more about how companies such as Flickr, AirBnB.com and Twitter have successfully implemented this model.

http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/mvcumtjcy2

You will gain experience in the following areas:

• Marketing Communications: Assist with and lead marketing and outreach projects. Examples of the types of projects you will work on include: developing web site content, writing e-newsletter articles, designing e-newsletters, qualifying networking opportunities and working in social media. This role can grow or change depending on the interests of the intern. Possibility to work on graphic design projects.
• Membership/Visitor Relations: Be present in the space to answer resident, visitor and Drop-In inquiries. Help with general physical upkeep of the space. Other possible projects: Member Survey, Wiki redesign, Member lunches, misc research projects.
• Event Production: Assist with organization and coordination of evening (and occasionally weekend) events. This includes planning, answering questions, promoting, set up and clean up.
• Coworking: How coworking works (history and how to), current residents, entrepreneurial practices, small business management, community development, etc.

Terms: Internship: 15-18 hours/week (including occasional evenings/weekends for events); hours flexible. Small stipend available, plus use of Citizen Space for your own projects. You will also be part of this community and develop relationships with the 20 professionals that work in this space (who may offer paid work/internship opportunities as well)

Minimum commitment: 3 months. There is the possibility for this experience to turn into a paid part-time position at the end of the internship.

Qualifications. Mature, recent or soon-to-be college graduate or similar professional. Experience or interest in communications, marketing, community development or related areas. Must be detail-oriented, self-motivated, passionate, dependable, responsible and play well with others. Must be computer literate and have your own laptop. Sense of humor always appreciated.

To Apply: Email your resume and a cover letter explaining your work history, what you offer, what you hope to learn from Citizen Space, and why you stand out from other candidates.

No phone calls. Emails welcome. Email: Gina & Toby Morning, General Manager, & Owners at citizenspace@gmail.com (this is an email for internship applications/inquiries.)

Application deadline: asap
Internship to start date: June 15

Look forward to hearing from you!

A stealth creative services company working in Citizen Space is looking for freelance Senior Visual Designers for short and long-term opportunities.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Strong conceptual thinking
• Intimate Knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator
• 3-5 years of visual design experience.
• Strong leadership skills – ability to work with Art Directors and mentor Junior Designers
• A solid understanding of designing intuitive site functionality, interaction, site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation.
• Web development experience in an agency environment
• Great communications skills – both with internal teams and communicating with/presenting to clients.
• A great attitude – we value our creative talent tremendously and show it, but we operate a prima-donna free work zone.

Email us your resume, a link to your most recent portfolio, and your Linked In profile to be consider for this immediate position.

A total of 5 DOER’s will receive free full-time resident access to a Citizen Space for three months valued at $425-$500 per month. The Citizen-in-Residence can take advantage of both the physical spaces & the communal resources.

In exchange, they work on a project of their choosing that helps the “COWORKING” community at large, documenting their progress through our social presences on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.  At the end of the residency, Citizens-in-Residence do a presentation to members of local coworking spaces about their project.

Accepted Applicants will be announced June 15, two weeks prior to the residency start date.  Our first Summer residency will start July 1, 2013 and the application process begins today.

To qualify, you must fall into one of the following categories: Social Good, Female Founder, Educational, Gaming.

Apply now online>

We are also seeking support from local company’s to help us make this program a success. If your company or you personally would like to sponsor this program, please email us: manager@citizenspace.us for more information.

CITIZEN SPACE Art Directors report to the Creative Director and work alongside the Client Services, User Experience, and Technology Teams. They are responsible for developing creative concepts and approaches with the project team, developing original design concepts as well as oversee project design all the way through execution. They are also responsible for presenting work to executive level client stakeholders and representing CITIZEN SPACE’s visual design process and integrity at all stages of an engagement. Art Directors are also responsible for providing art direction and leadership to designers working on their project teams, scoping design phases of projects accurately and efficiently as well as attend pitches and industry events as required.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 5+ years of interactive experience
• 2 years experience at top digital agency in an Art Director role or similar
• Strong conceptual thinking– both visual and interactive
• A solid understanding of designing intuitive site functionality, interaction, user interfaces, and navigation
• Driven to define the look and feel of large, industry-leading sites
• Strong leadership skills- ability to lead a team, manage and mentor junior designers
• Strong communication skills- ability to interface with clients as well as work with teams internally
• A great attitude- We value our creative talent tremendously and show it, but we operate a prima-donna free work zone

Email us your resume, a link to your most recent portfolio, and your Linked In profile to be consider for this immediate position.

I mustache you to switch to Uber.

Standing outside of Citizen Space, the birthplace of coworking, I see an infographic style ad billboard drive by encouraging me to “shave the stache”.

For weeks I have been waiting on Kanye’s response to Ray J’s “I hit it first” single but now that Uber has taken a direct shot at Lyft, my attention is on the private driver services.

This is the first direct attack I have seen to date and it raises a bunch of interesting questions. How will Lyft respond to this? Is this a good move by Uber? Is Uber willing to say they will quit driving forever if they don’t outsell Lyft like 50 said he would quit rapping forever if he didn’t outsell Kanye?

I guess the best we can do is sit back and watch this play out!

Nick Ochoa, Mingle Media 

The topics covered provide the students with principles and best practices of Rails development, including:

* Introduction to programming with the Ruby language

* Step-by-step instruction in building a Rails application

* Techniques and practices of professional Rails developers

* Individualized plans for ongoing Rails training

At the end of the class, you will have the skills to begin building Rails applications on your own, with knowledge of the resources used by professional Rails developers, and a solid foundation to pursue a career or launch a startup.

Instructor:

Daniel Kehoe is known for his popular RailsApps project which offers tutorials and example applications for professional Rails developers. He is a former writer and editor at PC WORLD and NeXTWORLD magazines who has been working with Rails since 2006 as a developer and CTO in various startups. He is known for a dynamic and enthusiastic teaching style and a commitment to empowering students to become successful Rails developers.

Is It for You?

This course is suitable for someone who:

* has never worked with any programming languages before

* or, has some experience with programming and has never written a web application in Rails

Typical participants are interested in making a career transition from jobs as a graphic designer or social media person, or are entering the workforce with a desire to work as a developer or launch a startup. This class is ideal for people who have previous experience building websites using HTML, WordPress, or PHP.

Prerequisites:

You should have basic familiarity with HTML and CSS as taught in a typical “Introduction to Web Design” class or book. You must bring your own laptop computer.

Schedule

Friday: 6pm to 9pm

Ruby and Rails Installation Workshop

Dinner and Drinks Served

Saturday 9am to 6pm

Rails Fundamentals

Ruby Programming Skills

Breakfast & Lunch Served

Sunday 9am to 6pm

Building Rails Applications

Database Applications with Rails

Breakfast & Lunch Served

Pricing

$399

Meals Included: Friday Night Dinner,  BreakFast, and Lunch for Saturday and Sunday

Get your tickets on Eventbrite: http://citizenruby.eventbrite.com/

Terms and Conditions:

Customer may cancel a class at any time. If Customer notifies Citizen Spaces Coworkingin writing that it will not attend the class at least fourteen business days in advance of the class, Citizen Spaces Coworking will refund to Customer the amount Customer paid for the class. If Customer notifies Citizen Spaces Coworking in writing that it will not attend the class less than fourteen but more than seven business days in advance of the class, Customer must still pay for the class and Citizen Spaces Coworking will provide Customer with a credit for the amounts paid for the class that Customer may apply to any other class offered within one year from the date of the cancelled class.  If Customer fails to notify Citizen Spaces Coworking that it will not attend the class at least seven business days in advance of the class, Customer must still pay for the class, and Citizen Spaces Coworking is not required to issue Customer a refund or a credit.

Citizen Spaces Coworking may reschedule or cancel the date, time and location of a class at any time, and may freely replace any personnel who may be scheduled to teach the class. Should Citizen Spaces Coworking cancel a class, unless such cancellation was for circumstances beyond Citizen Spaces control, Citizen Spaces Coworking will refund to Customer any amounts paid for said class. If Citizen Spaces Coworking has to cancel a class for circumstances beyond its control, Citizen Spaces Coworking will issue Customer a credit for the amounts paid by Customer for the class that Customer may apply to any other class offered within one year from the date of the cancelled class. Otherwise, Citizen Spaces Coworking is not liable to Customer for any other costs, expenses or amounts incurred by Customer in relation to the class (for example, any travel expenses or lost business time).

At Citizen Space, I am working on creating online legal resources for social enterprises. The first resource is a library of articles explaining the myriad legal issues that social enterprises, as well as for-profit companies and non-profits face in starting their companies. www.jeremychenlaw.com/articles

The second resource is a legal blog, which I intend to be a more accessible forum dedicated to social enterprises and new ways of doing business. I will be posting topics regarding the intersection of business and law, social change, marketing, art and music, culture, and good ideas. Please check it out at: www.jeremychenlaw.tumblr.com

Having never worked in a co-working space before, I will be documenting my experience at Citizen Space on this blog.  So far, Citizen Space has been a great place to meet cool people, who just happen to be focused and self-motivated entrepreneurs. I look forward to the next few months at Citizen Space, and encourage new folks to give it a try.

Jeremy Chen, Attorney at Law