We’re Looking!

thehappycorp global is hiring!

Are you looking for a job that motivates, inspires and makes you excited to get up in the morning? If that sounds good to you, then come join us. We are looking for the following positions:

Creative Programmers:  Multi-disciplinary programmers who love working in creative environment and making great design come to life.

Designers: Multi-disciplinary designers (interactive, print, video, events) of all experience level. Talent required.

Copywriters/PR/Media Mavens: Jnr writers, bloggers, and those with experience pitching to the media.

Producers: You’ve conquered some combination of websites, print projects, videos, motion graphics, and events. You might not have much experience, but you have an insatiable appetite for organization and process.

Fall Apprentices: Are you a student, or just getting started in the industry? We are looking for a new crop of recruits for our Fall Apprenticeships. Designers, producers, writers, sales people, etc all welcome to apply. If you think you have what it takes, then tell us your story. Ambition required.

For all positions, click through to learn more and send all resumes and cover letter to jobs@thehappycorp.com

thehappycorp seeks design apprentice

We are a young, successful, and fun creative studio looking for a talented interactive design apprentice.

This special someone will have strong interactive design and communication skills with an interest in media, marketing, design, art, fashion, music and culture.

We value all kinds of experience; html/css, flash animation / action script, video editing, experimental art, design, magazine layout, etc.

Check out the application.

thehappycorp seeks Video Apprentice

We are a young, successful, and energetic creative studio looking for a talented Video Apprentice to join us at our new location, thehappycorp global re-education center on Broome Street.

This special someone will have strong design and communication skills with an interest in media, marketing, design, art, fashion, music and culture.

You will play a big part in developing our weekly video podcast series, documenting the rise of NYC’s semi-secret society LVHRD.

LVHRD’s VDO series promotes and covers their monthly event series, as well as spotlights the life and art of LVHRD members. Check out these two examples:

DNCHRD III: VNYL (event promotion)

VDO Profile: Paul Pope (member spotlight)

You should be familiar with Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and be ready to take it to the next level with After Effects.

If you really want to blow us away, consider the design apprentice tasks as well.

Apply: jobs@thehappycorp.com with your resume and cover letter. PDF and Apple Pages documents preferred. Please include the position in the subject line

thehappycorp global seeks Design Apprentice

We are a young, successful, and fun creative studio looking for a talented design apprentice to join us in our brand new office on Broome Street. This special someone will have strong design and communication skills with an interest in media, marketing, design, art, fashion, music and culture.

We value all kinds of experience: html/css, flash animation / action script, video editing, experimental art, design, magazine layout, etc.

Check out the application and see if you’ve got what we’re looking for.

Rishi Desai, new LVHRD Business Production intern

Today Rishi said, “So how come all the other new hires got new hire posts? Where's my new hire post?”

To which Dave Franzese replied, “Son, when we started here we didn't get no new hire posts! I had to write my new hire post on the internet with a ballpoint pen uphill both ways in the snow.”

But we like Rishi, and he only had to ask, so, here goes:

When Rishi started at thehappycorp a couple weeks ago he had a broken face, just like the song. He still has a broken face, but it's less puffy now: he made us feel the fracture under his right eye, a little boney gap.

“My last night in Lima I stayed up all night drinking and decided to go out for the good waves when the sun came up,” said Rishi. It was bad. My board came up underneath me into my cheek. I was in bed two weeks after that, my whole face in a cast”

We imagine the immobility was the worst part for Rishi. He's been to South America four times and almost all the corners of the world, including Antarctica.

He's the founder and director of the Sustainable Design Review, an internationally recognized sustainability competition for Parsons students, where Rishi is a Design & Management degree candidate at the School of Design.

Rishi has more ideas for LVHRD than he can hold in his hands. He's constantly spreading out reams of paper in front of us, pointing at keynotes, sticking graphs on the bulletin board, reading at least two newspapers at once. Guy means business.

Today he came in with a streamlined haircut because, oh–wait for it–he's training for a triathlon. That's right. Go see Transformers, take a nap, and when you wake up Rishi will have spun the time you spent doing those things into golden straw with which he will buy your life purpose.

Dov Hoschander, thehappycorp global production intern

You have no idea what our hiring process is like (check out our Private Area to get a better idea.) If we told you it involved massive games of capture the flag in the near pitch blackness at a secret training facility in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire you probably wouldn't believe us.

Just so happens that's where we found our new production intern Dov Hoschander. Dov (pronounced like the past tense of “dive”) says his prowess for camp games mired in poison oak comes from being Color War General at sleep-away camp.

“The hell is Color War General?” we asked.

But Dov's phone rang and he held up the silent-all finger. That's the thing about Dov. He's always got 72 things going on at once. Ask him what time it is and he'll say, “Where?”

“I stepped on a squirrel once,” he said. “But it was dead before it met my foot.”

“What?” We pointed to the phone.

“No, I'm not on the phone. I just hold it like this so it's quicker to answer.”

Dov comes to thehappycorp from Long Island. He graduated from Queens College with a degree in Studio Art and has since put that degree to good use waiting in line for 14 hours to try out for American Idol.

“I was president of the a cappella group at my college, so I thought I'd give it a try. Obviously it didn't go so well.”

thehappycorp welcomes new design apprentice, Catalina Girón

With the arrival of our newest design apprentice thehappycorp global is truly living up to its international namesake. Catalina Girón comes to us from a family of painters in Santiago, Chile where she studies design at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. For her senior year she flew north to San Diego to see what the University of California could teach her about Visual Arts. And just a few weeks ago she caught thehappycorp’s big winking eye and we insisted this huasita pack her bags and join us in New York.

If you meet Catalina you’ll probably pick up on her magenta aura, the aura of luck. Bring Catalina along with you on an outing (like what you would go on with Mary Poppins) and you’re likely to get the best parking spot and the biggest scoop of ice cream. We can only speculate that Catalina’s gift comes from eating magic Chilean pony meat. When she was a little girl in Santiago she wouldn’t eat beef. Since red meat is a cornerstone of the South American diet, this presented a bit of a problem. Catalina’s parents told her beef was actually magic pony meat (as in My Little Pony). This pleased young Catalina. She wanted their powers of prophecy and luck. Magic pony’s are quite common (somewhat of a nuisance) in the Andes, so Catalina pursued her new favorite food with great gusto. It seems like it worked: Catalina glides around thehappycorp on enchanted air.

Look for Catalina waving her wand at the next LVHRD event, or on the back patio at our next happyhour. Don’t be fooled by the plethora of cute that augments her outfits. Catalina has been to Patagonia and back, that part of the world where the wind blows so hard trees grow out of the ground sideways. To get a better idea of how talented this young lady is, check out her graphic design work and experimental videos. We’re happy she’s on our side.