job vacancy: join our team as a Marketing & Sales Intern

We have some great opportunities for intelligent, passionate graduates to get in on the ground floor of an exciting marketing & sales career as part of a successful start-up. For this job, we are looking for a motivated, bright and enthusiastic graduate to join Skills Matter's Marketing team in an intern role at our London HQ.

about us...

Skills Matter helps a community of passionate developers, technologists and agilists learn and share skills to write better software. We collaborate with the world's leading innovators in software and thousands of passionate developers meeting up at Skills Matter, to produce some 450 intensive workshops, 500 talks & meetups, 2,000 hours worth of skillscast video's and 4 (quarterly) OSJ magazines per year.

We are 16 strong team and are a creative, quick-thinking graduate with a natural sales ability to join our team and help grow revenue from our expert workshops for our partners and Skills Matter.

if you are...

looking to channel your creativity, your natural sales & marketing ability and your passion for social media marketing into a product that provides thousands of people with endless opportunities to learn and share skills in very advanced technology
a people person who can talk to anyone; both flexible and fearless?
self aware, well spoken, a great communicatorr and a great listener
able to assume responsibility and accountability for successfully reaching individual and team goals
have an eye for visual marketing and enjoy playing with graphics software
in the possession of a university degree in the field of business or marketing

then we would love to hear from you!

We have some great opportunities for intelligent, passionate graduates to get in on the ground floor of an exciting marketing & sales career as part of a successful start-up.

the opportunity

You will develop leads by engaging with tens of thousands of members in our community, providing them with timely and targeted updates on opportunities to learn new skills.
You will open doors to London's most innovative Tech companies, including start-ups, software houses, betting & gaming companies, investment banks and digital creative agencies to raise awareness of our expert workshops and other learning opportunities
You will assist with incoming enquiries.
Grow membership and traffic of skillsmatter.com
You will grow results, leads and revenue from our workshops to our partners and to Skills Matter.

This position is located in Clerkenwell, a funky and vibrant area with lots of eateries, restaurants, pubs and bars and a great mix of people and superb transport links, with Barbican, Faringdon and Kings Cross stations all close by.

Compensation includes basic salary, performance based bonus, and great career opportunities. Join our team and grow into superstardom in business development, social media marketing and/or channel management - we love to support your career aspirations, through encouragement, by listening to your ideas, by sharing our skills and through training!

requirements for success

Creative, quick-thinking graduate with a natural sales and marketing ability
A people person, both flexible and fearless, who can talk to anyone and can also listen
Results-focused can-do attitude, collaborative style
Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever needs to be done.
Deep understanding of social media, open source- and internet technology and culture.
Inspired by Skills Matter’s mission.

Every member of the Skills Matter Team is expected to be an Innovator; a Collaborator; a Champion for their ideas; an Expert; a Collaborator; Graceful and Dedicated to our mission to help our community learn and share skills to innovate and write better software.

sounds exciting? get in touch!

If you work well in such an environment, and if the profile above describes you, then get your skates on and send us a cover email and CV! In your cover email, please clearly explain why you think you can make a difference in this job and why you would like to work with us, both illustrated with some examples to demonstrate your point.