Marketing Internship at Art Focussed Tech Start Up

Are you interested in marketing, technology and the arts?

We are offering an opportunity to gain experience with an exciting start-up based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. 

Magnolia Box create custom print on demand solutions for visual content owners.

Our software helps artists, photographers, and museums sell their content online using their own dedicated e-commerce website, in-store touch-screen kiosk or iPad app. Our clients include Tate, British Library, National Galleries of Scotland, Natural History Museum.

We are currently developing a new platform designed to capture a diverse range of emerging opportunities. The business possibilities are endless and there are a huge number of potential niche markets we might explore.

To help prioritise our strategic direction we are now looking for exceptional candidates to help shape the future.

The 3 month internship role will be project specific, with tangible deliverables:

  • Identify potential strategic opportunities;
  • Producing quantified analysis assessing market sizes ;
  • Conduct market research with potential customers;
  • Developing and executing new marketing campaign strategies;
  • Developing marketing collateral to test marketing strategies;
  • Exploring the competitive landscape for arts based social marketplaces;
  • Designing and executing meaningful social marketing strategies.

Your time will be spent learning various skills and getting some genuine practical experience.

We will pay £100 per week to cover expenses.

Candidates are likely to be degree educated, highly motivated, proactive and possess excellent communication skills.

Please email a one-page CV and covering letter by 29th February, 2012 to james [at] magnoliabox [dot] com. 

Junior Web Developer Placement

We are looking for a highly motivated junior web developer wanting to experience life in a venture backed Internet start-up.

Our ideal candidate is someone who’s interested in art, photography and has a passion for developing web software.

You should have a real attention to detail and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where you will be expected to rapidly develop complex new skills.

The role will primarily involve working with our cutting-edge API, helping to create new features, functions and applications designed to commercialise digital imagery.

Experience to be gained

  • Experience of working in a start-up
  • Experience of working with scalable, cloud based Internet applications
  • Experience developing mobile applications
  • Experience developing social applications

Technical & professional skills to be developed

You will develop experience with some of the most in-demand, and highly rewarded technologies currently available:

  • Ruby, Rails, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, AWS, EC2, Mongo DB.
  • You will also develop an understanding of API’s.
  • You will gain experience using Agile development processes.
  • You will lean about the lean start-up methodology and have the opportunity to apply this methodology to your own personal projects.

Essential technical requirements

  • Very high standard of technical competency
  • Very high commitment to learning about developing consumer or mobile web apps

Desirable technical requirements

  • A passion to create ambitious, quality software using the latest technologies
  • Familiarity of working with Git

Necessary personal attributes

  • High work ethic
  • Huge self-motivation to learn new skills
  • Willingness to go the extra mile
  • Proactive in soliciting input and feedback from mentors and supervisors.
  • Active application of feedback to help improve performance

Desirable personal attributes

  • Interest in art, photography.

Salary (per annum)

  • £16,000 per annum

Method of application

  • Single Page CV + Online portfolio examples (Github account very desirable)
  • Email to james [at] magnoliabox [dot] com

Closing date

  • 28th February 2012

Driving Licence / car required? 

  • Not essential, location very close to train & bus station.

About Us
We create custom print on demand solutions for visual content owners.

Our multi-tenant SaaS app helps Artists, Photographers, Galleries, Museums, Publishers and Picture Library's sell their content online using their own dedicated e-commerce website, in-store touch-screen kiosk or iPad app.

We are currently developing a new platform designed to capture a diverse range of emerging opportunities in numerous image–related niches.

JavaScript Developer for Yorkshire / London Incubated Start-up

JavaScript Developer for Yorkshire / London Start-up

Magnolia Box is a specialist web business with offices in London and Harrogate. Our clients include Tate, Natural History Museum, British Library, News International and many others.

Our primary focus is art, digital imagery and print on demand. It’s a cool, fast moving space with huge potential. 

We are currently incubating a venture-backed start-up with the aim of commercialising the world’s digital imagery. 

We are now looking to recruit a high calibre developer (we don't use embarrassing names likes 'Ninja' or 'Rock Star' but equally we don't want any journeymen) to help architect and develop applications on top of our REST API using client-side JavaScript technologies such as Backbone.js, Ember.js or similar. You will contribute to all areas of design, development and UX and take ownership of the new projects, applications and features.

You will take a fundamental role in the selection of libraries and tools used to develop robust and state-of-the art applications.

You Must Have

  • Excellent JavaScript skills with extensive experience building modern AJAX applications;
  • JavaScript TDD/BDD development experience;
  • Strong UI design / development skills with CSS & HTML5;
  • Ability to create high performing applications at Internet scale;
  • A passion to create ambitious, quality software using the latest technologies;
  • Familiarity of working with Git;
  • Awareness of current libraries and technologies;
  • Experience working with cross-domain REST APIs in JavaScript, ideally with frameworks such as Backbone, Ember/SproutCore, etc;
  • Examples of work through a blog, portfolio or GitHub account.

In addition, it would be really great if you:

  • Have contributed to / released open source projects;
  • Have experience of provisioning API platforms and supporting libraries;
  • Take pride in writing elegant and robust code;
  • Have experience with working with Ruby, CoffeeScript, Node.js;
  • Have a strong, clean design aesthetic; and
  • Have good understanding of UX/UI design.

Practical details

We are happy to consider both full-time and part-time positions. 

In a perfect world this will be an on-site role. However, we are realistic and flexible: we are thus happy to consider remote workers or whether you wished to be based in either London or Harrogate. 

We are also able to sponsor one non-EU developers using an existing licence so we can also consider International developers seeking to relocate to the UK. 

In terms of salary and benefits, these are obviously competitive and can be flexed to your individual requirements.

About Us

We create custom print on demand solutions for visual content owners. 

Our multi-tenant SaaS app helps Artists, Photographers, Galleries, Museums, Publishers and Picture Library's sell their content online using their own dedicated e-commerce website, in-store touch-screen kiosk or iPad app.

We are currently developing a new platform designed to capture a diverse range of emerging opportunities. 

If you are interested in finding out more then please send an introductory email or CV directly to me, including relevant links (Github, portfolio, etc): james [at] magnoliabox.com

ABSOLUTELY NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES. 

WE DO NOT WORK WITH AGENCIES.

SERIOUSLY, DON'T EVEN BOTHER.

 

Top Albums of 2011 From The Team

Who has some suggestions for their favourite albums of 2011? Hit us with them in the comments, we won't be snobby...

Here's a list of our team's favourite albums of 2011.

Little Roy - Battle For Seattle

Did you know that Nirvana's Nevermind was 20 years old in 2011? Little Roy has made this totally unexpected awesome album of reggae'd Nirvana covers! If you missed the band on Jools Holland, then check out Heart Shaped Box on YouTube; bloomin' brilliant. This got played a lot in the office and since it was on everyone's list and the ONLY album on Alex's list, it goes at the top!

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Each of James, Ian and myself are really excited about just how good this album is. A very worthy winner of the Mercury Music Prize.

DJ Shadow - The Less You Know The Better

Mind-bogglingly brilliant. This is my top pick of the year. It's a big dose of eclectic sounds and impecible production from a dude with the ridiculously huge record collection! Amazing.

The Roots - Undun

This album reminds me of Curtis Mayfield's 'New World Order', which is one of my all-time favourite albums. It's much more downbeat than their last (also brilliant) album 'How I Got Over'; a really immersive and soulful beauty!

Wild Beasts - Smother

Woah man, that's some mellow chilled out album. I've listened to this a LOT!

Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

One on both Stuart's list and mine. It's really hard to describe this FAT album without using the word FAT in-between every other word. It's the production, it's really really FAT, you'll know what I mean if you listen to it!

The Full Lists

James

  • The Black Keys - El Camino
  • PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  • Various - Kitsuné (Kitsuné Parisien, Kistsuné Tabloid remixed by The Twelves, Kistsuné Maison Complations 11 & 12)
  • Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo, - , .
  • The Girls - Father Son, Holy Ghost
  • Feist - Metals
  • Little Roy - Battle For Seattle

Stuart

  • Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
  • The Black Keys - El Camino
  • Little Roy - Battle For Seattle

Nick

  • Saint Vincent - Strange Mercy
  • Feist - Metals
  • Pete and the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
  • Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys
  • Metronomy - The English Riviera

Ian

  • Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
  • Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
  • Kate Bush - Fifty Words For Snow
  • Camille - Ilo Veyou
  • Feist - Metals
  • Bjork - Biophilia
  • PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Alex's Massive List

  • Little Roy - Battle For Seattle

Me!

  • DJ Shadow - The Less You Know The Better
  • PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  • The Roots - Undun
  • Wild Beasts - Smother
  • Patti Smith - Outside Society
  • Plaid - Scintilli
  • Warpaint - The Fool
  • Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
  • Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
  • Black Keys - El Camino
  • Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie Xx - We're New Here
  • Ziggy Marley - Wild And Free
  • Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  • Bootsy Collins - Tha Funk Capital of the World
  • Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell - Ghosts Outside