Stagira Inc.

Marketing, Advertising, Entrepreneurship and Communications Internship

Arbitrary quotation [that always leads stuff like this]:

“What’s good or bad doesn’t matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name and your Daddy’s name doesn’t mean a damn, it’s your talents and feelings that matter. You’ve got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you’ve got to know what goes between the notes.”

-Jimi Hendrix

Organization:Stagira,Inc. 

About: Stagira, Inc. is a full-service, ubiquity brand marketing™ and advertising agency founded on the principle of Purpose. Stagira, Inc. serves entrepreneurs and global enterprise committed to authentic, transparent, and virtuous leadership in the market place of ideas and exchange.

Location: Austin, TX

School of Athens by Raphael

Compensation: Paid Internship; hourly– commensurate with participation and experience; some candidates will be eligible for tuition reimbursement.

Duration: 2009 Winter Break thru the close of the 2010 Spring semester.

Benefits: Compensation; valuable hands on experience: direct client engagement, direct creative participation; experience in entrepreneurship and managing multiple projects, simultaneously; class credit if applicable

Employment Type: Part Time/ Internship (~20 hours weekly); Temp to hire

Application deadline: December 11, 2009

Submit Applications to:

Jason Stoddard

Stagira, Inc., Founder & Principal
Jason at StagiraInc dot com
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Qualifications:

• Generalists, welcome. Must be a college Junior, or higher, pursuing a degree in advertising, communications, Liberal Arts (specifically political science, philosophy/rhetoric, and/or [positivist] economics), Business (economics, entrepreneurship, marketing, finance), Radio/Television/Film (RTF). Bonus Points for University of Texas Plan II/ Honors student-candidates and/or those candidates that have created their own coursework/degree plan. (Hyper-specialization, as evident by the rising body count at large agencies named after dead white guys, is dead.)
• Strong desire to learn, create, and innovate with deference to leadership and oversight of agency owner.
• Advanced written, verbal and aural communication skills.
• Must be able to participate at work a minimum of ~20 hours a week
• Must maintain a fondness for high fives and fist pumps
• Must have a valid drivers license with no more than 3 moving violations and/or at fault accidents in the past 3 years.
• Internship is a 12+ week course depending on length of semester
  Must be proficient in MacOSX and MS Office (particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint (despite the fact that we love us some Keynote))
• Must have a strong attention to detail (like if “Rainman” and Martha Stewart had a baby, detail)

Duties: to include, but not limited to:

• Concept development and ideation;
• Assist with creative, strategy and implementation of integrated marketing campaigns;
• Assist and support management of partner, client, vendor, and internal processes/ relations;
• Research;
• Managing project tracking and metrics
• Copyediting and writing;
• interactive/web marketing duties as assigned with a heavy emphasis in social media marketing and cross-media lemming wrangling

Abstract, description and requirements:

Core Values: Ideation–>Execution | Passion | Integrity | Accountability | Innovation | Transparency

Stagira, Inc. is an appreciation for working hard and playing hard. Both beget the other.

We do not own a copier; we press all our own coffee; we often begin client meetings by dancing and/or playing a game of Connect Four. Our boiler plate documentation is created. Candidates will eat well, and learn to love the following: David Bowie; Otis Redding; esthetic services; the difference between American, German and Alsatian Gewürztraminer; the enjoyment of raw oysters with beer and/or sparkling wine from the Loire; cupcakes; and how and why the correct employment of the semi-colon is an immediate need in written communication.

All member of the Stagira, Inc. team are required to read Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, David Allen’s Getting Things Done and excerpts from Aristotle, Sennett’s The Fall of Public Man, Mises’ Human Action, Chris Brogan’s and Julien Smith’s Trust Agents, Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It, Sam Wyly’s 1,000 Dollars & an Idea and Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways. Additionally, all members of the team are required to study, compose and publish (to a blog) a public facing critical essay on Beethoven’s “Consecration of the House” as it relates to the binary theory inherent in Radiohead’s discography (1998-present). All members of the Stagira, Inc. team are required to complete and publish (to a blog) a 90-day action plan before their first day. Said action plan is public facing to ensure accountability with colleagues, friends and family only to drive conversation; this is also a very good demonstration of directional thinking so that clients, vendors, and competitors have the opportunity to cherry pick your skills and hire you away for truck loads of money and experience. (Once you realize you have been hired into a cabal of racketeering and misdirection, you will then be compelled to compose electronic messages in cipher to Stagira, Inc. owner about the travails of life as a young, urban denizen trapped in an antiquated world of anomie and alienation, only to be instructed to move to Quepos, Costa Rica, declare political asylum, found your own agency, and land the Costa Rican tuna industry as a client.)

Candidates will provide direct administrative support to agency owner, project management, creative development, and client services on an on-going basis. Candidates should have hands-on experience with social media applications – blogging, Twitter, facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, wiki, social bookmarking, and related areas, in addition to web-based productivity applications, content management systems (wordpress, drupal, joomla, etc.) and project management suites (basecamp, etc.). Candidates are required to have experience in a Mac environment (the computer stuff, not the noodle stuff.)

Candidates will provide marketing and communications support for a series of educational seminars and classes on integrated marketing with an emphasis in social media marketing. Specific tasks may include:

direct administrative support, scheduling, partner/vendor communication, authoring blog posts, posting tweets/updates and engaging users via social networks, researching and identifying potential PR opportunities (within and outside the framework of PR professionals with which Stagira, Inc. is currently engaged) and exploring ways in which Stagira, Inc. might engage clients’ and the agency’s communities within existing sites/web properties, through cross media execution, mobile marketing, event and seminar marketing, on external social media platforms, and sandwich at a restaurant on a Tuesday.

Should we find a match, please trust that agency, its partners and affiliates will do everything in their respective power to advance the candidate’s career and objectives both as a person and as a professional. All “We” ask in return is purpose, passion, enthusiastic (yet focused) execution and an attitude of “I GET to do this” rather than “I HAVE to do this.” After all, what we do is the highest order of the hierarchy of needs: the act of creation, creative fidelity.

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