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We hire rarely. We read everything.

There is no pipeline here, no recruiter and no portal that asks you to retype your CV into eleven boxes. When a seat opens it goes on this page, and it comes down the day it is filled.

01What we look for

Bring something you made.

We are small enough that one hire is a large fraction of the company, which is why we take our time and why the thing we look hardest for is not experience. Show us something you built, wrote, shot, designed, or took apart to see how it worked — the side project, the spreadsheet that got out of hand, the account you grew for a friend. Two odd things you finished tell us more than five ordinary ones you were assigned.

01You make things unasked
Nobody here is waiting to be handed a task. The best signal you can send us is something that exists only because you decided it should.
02You finish them
Starting is cheap. We would rather see one small thing that is actually done than four that got interesting and then stopped.
03You say what went wrong
Everything we build breaks in its first month. People who can describe their own mistakes plainly are the ones we can build with.
02Open roles2 open

What is open right now.

Both of these are internships, both are real work from the first week, and neither of them is a coffee run. You will be given a job the company actually needs doing and the room to be bad at it for a fortnight.

What these pay, before you read any further

We are a young company and these two seats are voluntary and commission-based. There is no basic salary attached to either of them right now — you earn on what you bring in or what you ship, and nothing on top of it. That is not what we want it to be and it is not permanent: these become paid roles when the revenue they help build arrives. If that does not work for your situation, it does not, and we would rather you knew that in the first minute than the third interview.

01InternshipPakistanCommission only

Sales Intern

You build the lists the rest of the work runs on. If the sheet is wrong, everything downstream of it is wasted — which is why this is not the junior job it sounds like.

What you'd do
  • Build lead sheets: who the company is, who to talk to there, and how to reach them.
  • Work Apollo, Hunter, LinkedIn and Google Maps until a row is complete rather than nearly complete.
  • Find and verify emails and phone numbers. A bounced address costs us more than an empty cell does.
  • Keep the sheet clean — one format, no duplicates, and a note of where each row came from.
  • Tell us when a list is not worth building. Half of this job is knowing which segment is a dead end.
What you need
  • The basics of how outbound works. You do not need to have done it at scale, or at all professionally.
  • Enough Apollo, Hunter or LinkedIn to find a person and their address without being walked through it.
  • Google Sheets properly: filters, dedupes, and a formula or two of your own.
  • Patience for small facts. Most of this work is being right about details nobody will thank you for.
  • Written English good enough that a first-line message does not need rewriting.
Apply — Sales Intern
02InternshipPakistanCommission only

Marketing Intern

You run the accounts and you make what goes on them. Not a scheduler and a designer — one person who can have the idea and then build it.

What you'd do
  • Run the day to day on Instagram and LinkedIn: posting, scheduling, and answering what comes back.
  • Make the creative yourself — the post, the carousel, the short cut — to a brief and to a deadline.
  • Turn what we build into something a person outside this industry would stop scrolling for.
  • Keep a calendar a week ahead and stick to it, so nothing goes out at midnight because it was forgotten.
  • Watch what worked and say so honestly, including when the thing you made was the thing that did not.
What you need
  • Working Canva, Figma or the Adobe equivalent — whichever one you are actually fast in.
  • Basic video: trim, caption, and export at the right size for the platform without being told which.
  • You have run an account before. Yours, a friend's, a university society's — all of it counts.
  • An eye for when something looks cheap, and the willingness to argue for a version you believe in.
  • Enough writing to make a caption land in one line.
Apply — Marketing Intern
Attach a CV and one thing you made. The second one is what we read first
03Write anyway

The best hires never matched a posting.

Every person here arrived with something odd attached — a project nobody asked for, a tool built to scratch one itch, a portfolio with no job title anywhere near it. If you have something like that and none of the roles above fit you, that is a reason to write rather than a reason not to.

Tell us what you would build here.Send it to — jobs@godwinausten.org

04Let's talk

Let's build something that works.

Tell us what you're doing by hand that shouldn't be. We'll tell you if an agent can take it.

Work with ushello@godwinausten.org
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