Social Media Intern

Positions available: 1 We are looking for a creative Social Media Intern to work in our marketing department. The Social Media Intern is responsible for planning social media calendars, creating social media posts, and assisting the social media team with brainstorming campaigns. To be successful as a Social Media Intern you must have excellent knowledge of various social media platforms. A good Social Media Intern combines creative campaign ideas with analytical skills to create successful posts. Social Media Intern Responsibilities: Manage the social media calendar. Brainstorm campaign ideas. Post on various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Analyze analytics to gauge the success of campaigns. Social Media Intern Requirements: Excellent knowledge of social media platforms. Knowledge of analytical tools. Creative mindset. Ability to multitask. Ability to work in a team. A degree in Communication or a related field. Prior experience with marketing or social media.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Software Development

Positions available: 3 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3 computer science students or teams. CustomerDiscovery.co is a two sided marketplace dedicated to helping founders build tech driven products that people love and connecting them to the people that love them. We aim to be the #1 customer discovery platform that every early stage founder goes to. when they have a new idea that they want to validate and iterate upon. The primary focus for the student will be: to create our. two sided marketplace platform that helps founders validate and iterate their ideas with direct user research. Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable for our website; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization. Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application. Our goal at the end of this experience is: We need to have a fully functional website created from the designers prototypes and have several core features. These core features include 1) news feed 2) a native video chat feature (like zoom but coded with something like twilio) 3) a matching. algorithm that matches founders to early adopters based on. profile data/tags Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning website. Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application. Database Analysis - For the student(s) to help us improve our data storage and querying. Other duties the student may complete could include : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Software vendor research and evaluation Assisting with other process improvement projects Unit and integration testing We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: (company slack, email) Student's primary contact : (Ethan Halfhide, Founder & CEO, ethan@customerdiscovery.co, ‪(804) 504-1084 )

Digital Content Creation

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. CustomerDiscovery.co helps early stage founders build products that people love by connecting them with potential early adopters for idea validation and alpha user testing. We believe that by helping founders with customer discovery they can validate or disprove their assumptions more efficiently which will help them iterate and develop their ideas to reach product market fit successfully! We have a podcast called 'The Customer Discovercast' that is posted on apple, Spotify and Youtube. We need help creating tiktok, instagram, linnkedin, twitter, and/or YT short content to widen our reach. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Write blog articles, email newsletters/sequences and other content pieces on assigned topics Assist with a social media video launch to promote our organization Evaluate recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our sector Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story Ultimately, you will be working on content creation for our organization, including video, social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. If you like the sound of our culture, and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you. A student or team with excellent writing and video skills would be the ideal candidate for this project.

UI/UX Design

We are looking for a dynamic UI/UX Designer who will be responsible for the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design of our various digital assets. You will ensure that all elements of the online user experience are optimized for improved usability, usefulness, and exceptional visual design. The successful candidate will evidence a passion for delivering adaptive and creative solutions to UI/UX design problems by staying up to date with best practices and emerging trends in user experience design and user interface technology. UI UX Designer Responsibilities: Investigating user experience design requirements for our suite of digital assets. Developing and conceptualizing a comprehensive UI/UX design strategy for the brand. Producing high quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes. Designing UI elements and tools such as navigation menus, search boxes, tabs, and widgets for our digital assets. Testing UI elements such as CTAs, banners, page layouts, page designs, page flows, and target links for landing pages. Collaborating with the marketing team, and internal and external designers to ensure the creation and delivery of tailored experiences for the digital user. Providing advice and guidance on the implementation of UX research methodologies and testing activities in order to analyze and predict user behavior. Adhering to style standards on typography and graphic design. UI UX Designer Requirements: A Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years’ UI/UX design experience for digital products or services. A portfolio of professional UI/UX design work for both web and mobile platforms. Working knowledge of the following technologies and software: Sketch, InVision, Visio, HTML, CSS (SCSS), iOS, Android, Design Systems and Adobe Creative Suite. A team player but can work independently too. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

Product Management

We are looking for multi-skilled candidates with excellent interpersonal skills for the position of Product Manager. Product Managers improve customer experiences, generate new product ideas, and outline detailed product strategies, among other duties. Product Managers will need to manage diverse teams spanning engineering and marketing, requiring both a strong technical background and excellent interpersonal skills. Product Manager Responsibilities: Determining feature requirements. Researching customer experiences and demands. Improving customer experiences. Outlining a detailed product strategy. Managing cross-functional teams. Managing product road maps and releases. Understanding product selling points. Identifying and filling product gaps. Generating new product ideas. Developing product pricing and positioning strategies. Working alongside engineering teams. Working with PR and marketing teams to manage product launches. Acting as a product evangelist and representing the company at public events. Product Manager Requirements: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Previous experience in a product development or management role. Proven product development ability. Technical background with experience in software development or web technologies. Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills. Excellent interpersonal skills. Good written and verbal communication. Exceptional leadership skills.

Startup Operations

Our expanding company is seeking to hire an Operations Manager to join our leadership team. You will be in charge of providing inspired leadership for the operation for one of our organization's lines of business, which involves making important policy and strategic decisions, as well as the development and implementation of operational policies and procedures. You will also be assisting our Human Resources department with recruiting, when necessary, and help promote a company culture that encourages morale and performance. Successful candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in operations management (or a related field) and have prior experience in a management or leadership position. A deep understanding of financial management is also a plus. Operations Manager Responsibilities: Provide inspired leadership for the organization. Make important policy, planning, and strategy decisions. Develop, implement and review operational policies and procedures. Assist HR with recruiting when necessary. Help promote a company culture that encourages top performance and high morale. Oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing. Work with senior stakeholders. Ensure all legal and regulatory documents are filed and monitor compliance with laws and regulations. Work with the board of directors to determine values and mission, and plan for short and long-term goals. Identify and address problems and opportunities for the company. Build alliances and partnerships with other organizations. Support worker communication with the management team. Operations Manager Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in operations management or related field. Experience in management, operations, and leadership. Understanding of general finance and budgeting, including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow management. Ability to build consensus and relationships among managers, partners, and employees. Excellent communication skills. Solid understanding of financial management.

Data Science

2 individuals positions available. We are looking to hire a highly creative Data Scientist to address data analytics challenges in our organization, to collect large volumes of data from varying sources, clean and interpret data, create solutions to overcome challenges and communicate with interested parties. To succeed in this position; you need to be curious, creative and tech savvy. You need to stay up to date with data programming software and apps, have outstanding understanding of statistics and mathematics, and be proficient in writing algorithms. Top candidates will be persistent, and have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Data Scientist Responsibilities: Having meetings with team members regarding projects. Collecting and interpreting data. Automating and integrating processes. Researching solutions to overcome data analytics challenges. Developing complex mathematical models that integrate business rules and requirements. Creating machine learning models. Communicating and meeting with engineers, IT teams and other interested parties. Sharing complex ideas verbally and visually in an understandable manner with non-technical stakeholders. Data Scientist Requirements: A MSc or PhD degree in Applied Mathematics or Statistics. 5+ years industry experience. Advanced coursework in machine learning and programming. Experience using data visualization tools. Experience with data querying languages, and statistical or mathematical software. Proficient in writing algorithms, and knowing when to apply them. Excellent understanding of statistics, multi-variable calculus and linear algebra. Outstanding communication skills.

Talent Acquisition

Positions available: Four teams of up to three students We are looking to provide students with HR and Talent Acquisition skills by letting them bring on new interns and use our HR software to gain experience with using HR skills for internal teams. Students will get experience conducting screening interviews and monitoring internal conflicts to gain experience in the HR field. HR Project Deliverables: Offering counseling services to employees. Participating in recruitment processes. Communicating policies pertaining to Human Resources, compensation and benefits. Conducting exit interviews. Collecting and analyzing employee data. Using data to create employee profiles. Organizing and updating employee files. Representing the company at job fairs and college campuses. Overseeing employee orientation and training. Liaising between employees and management. Managing employee complaints. Undertaking communications and interpersonal skills training.

Marketing Specialists

Positions available: 20-30 (5 teams of 3-6 students each) We are excited to provide ambitious Marketing Students with Projects related to developing and managing all aspects of our marketing strategy. You will focus on creating, implementing, tracking and optimizing our digital and traditional marketing campaigns across various marketing channels. To be successful as a Marketing Specialist, you must be highly self-motivated, proactive, and have a working knowledge of current marketing tools and strategies in order to execute successful marketing campaigns. Potential Marketing Project Deliverables: Developing and implementing marketing plans. Undertaking competitor research and analyses. Conducting market research to establish customer trends and habits. Establishing goals and objectives in order to reach our customers through appropriate marketing channels (digital and traditional). Building and maintaining relationships with new and existing customers through prospecting and networking. Promoting brand awareness through marketing efforts. Creating marketing materials for our website and other marketing platforms. Supporting the marketing team with marketing activities by demonstrating expertise in various areas, including optimization, advertising, social media, direct marketing, and event planning. Marketing projects for CustomerDiscovery.co include: Content marketing. Students can write a series of content pieces for your business, based on your business needs. SEO. Students can complete a Search Engine Optimization analysis of your web presence, making recommendations to optimize your usage of keywords, your website and your content Marketing Launch Planning. Students can gain experience with marketing launch skill sets such as niche outreach, relationship building, and adding potential users to our waiting list. Branding and graphic design. Students can complete graphic design pieces using your logo and branding, such as a branded whitepaper, slide deck, and other assets. Alternately, students can undertake a logo redesign for your business.

Professional Sales

Positions available: up to 15 students (3 teams of 3-5 students each) Our company is looking for a Sales Representative Interns to gain experience generating leads and meeting sales goals. Project tasks will include sales presentations and product demonstrations, as well as negotiating contracts with potential clients. Sales Representative Interns Responsibilities: Generating leads. Meeting or exceeding sales goals. Negotiating all contracts with prospective clients. Helping determine pricing schedules for quotes, promotions, and negotiations. Preparing weekly and monthly reports. Giving sales presentations to a range of prospective clients. Coordinating sales efforts with marketing programs. Understanding and promoting company programs. Obtaining deposits and balance of payment from clients. Preparing and submitting sales contracts for orders. Visiting clients and potential clients to evaluate needs or promote products and services. Maintaining client records. Answering client questions about credit terms, products, prices and availability. We want you to investigate our sales process to help us iterate our sales process. You will have access to our Sales Manager for information and we will provide all current sales collateral for review. You will also be provided high level data, but not individual account information. Focus may include, but is not limited to: Mapping our customer journey. Identifying problem areas where prospects disengage from the sales funnel. Developing recommendations of how we can improve our sales process. The final project deliverable is a 10-page written report detailing our current sales process and your recommended changes. The report should include: A visual graphic of current sales process. Current touchpoints between prospect & sales team. Current sales collateral that is exchanged. Drop-off rates between each sales stage. Recommendations for improvement.

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Software Development

Positions available: 3 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3 computer science students or teams. CustomerDiscovery.co is a two sided marketplace dedicated to helping founders build tech driven products that people love and connecting them to the people that love them. We aim to be the #1 customer discovery platform that every early stage founder goes to. when they have a new idea that they want to validate and iterate upon. The primary focus for the student will be: to create our. two sided marketplace platform that helps founders validate and iterate their ideas with direct user research. Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable for our website; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization. Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application. Our goal at the end of this experience is: We need to have a fully functional website created from the designers prototypes and have several core features. These core features include 1) news feed 2) a native video chat feature (like zoom but coded with something like twilio) 3) a matching. algorithm that matches founders to early adopters based on. profile data/tags Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning website. Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application. Database Analysis - For the student(s) to help us improve our data storage and querying. Other duties the student may complete could include : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Software vendor research and evaluation Assisting with other process improvement projects Unit and integration testing We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: (company slack, email) Student's primary contact : (Ethan Halfhide, Founder & CEO, ethan@customerdiscovery.co, ‪(804) 504-1084 )