TechHub

TechHub, the hub for technology entrepreneurs from around the world is launching early July. We need great staff to help us greet members, manage the space, set up events and more. We're have two permanent, long-term Reception/Host jobs available for the London space

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves people and is keen to work in a start-up environment and have the opportunity to move up within the company. 

Core duties of the roles:

Reception

• Greet members and guests, assign & monitor guest passes
• Manage the physical sign-in process
• Manage the online booking processes for the co-working space, meeting rooms and device-testing room
• Answer queries
• Book taxis

Facilities management

• Set up the co-working space in the morning
• Ensure kitchen is clear and cleaners have done their job
• Check meeting rooms & set up
• Oversee printing, consumables & maintenance
• Manage any technical issues & order tech support visits where necessary

Event management

• Oversee setting up the event space and catering (you’ll have assistance with the space/catering set-up)
• Greet speakers and attendees
• Manage the guest list

Role description

• TechHub is open 8am – 10pm, so you can choose from core working hours of either 7.30am – 3.30pm, or 2.30pm – 10.30pm, to suit your family arrangements or other commitments.
• Working on-site at TechHub London in City Rd, London EC1Y 2BJ

You’re an essential member of the TechHub team and we’ll be relying on you to be the friendly, professional face of the space. You’ll be genuinely valued – we want the benefit of your experience, skills and expertise to help us shape how the space is run, the processes that need to be put in place, and to come up with ideas to make TechHub even better.

You are:

• Punctual, with excellent time-keeping and completely reliable – you’re such an important member of the team as you’ll be opening up in the morning or closing up at night and trusted with important responsibilities. We need to know you’ll be there when you say you will and are totally trustworthy!
• Super organised – great at managing your time and workload to ensure everything gets done and that handovers with your counterpart are smooth and seamless.
• Friendly and personable with great communication skills – you love interacting with people and helping make their day the best it can be. Our members are lovely people and we know you’ll enjoy meeting them.
• Excellent at remembering names and faces – you’ll be getting to know the people who visit TechHub and everyone loves to be treated like a valued member, rather than a membership number!
• Great with using computers and the internet - you'll need to quickly get to grips with our booking and member-management systems, so good skills with the ability to learn new software, applications and technology is a must.
• Ideally enthusiastic about technology and entrepreneurship – this is what we’re all about and we’d love our staff to understand why tech companies need TechHub and to gain an insight into what it’s like to start-up run a company.
• Happy to muck in – as these are new roles, some duties might be unexpected, or there might be times when it’s all hands on deck. We’re looking for people who want to see TechHub succeed and will get the job done.
• Innovative, creative and proactive – you’ll be developing processes and working out the best ways of doing things. If you think something could be improved, we want to hear your thoughts, and we’d love you to anticipate issues before they arise, and take action where it’s needed.
• The kind of person who goes the extra mile – you’re genuinely helpful and committed and these qualities won’t go unnoticed at TechHub, we believe in giving credit where credit’s due.

While we're seeking people who will really love these roles, there are great opportunities to move forward with TechHub in time, either into events planning and management or into a more senior club management role for one or more TechHub spaces.

As these roles are very important to the company, we're looking for people who want to join the TechHub team and who are interested in full-time, long-term work  (not suitable as holiday temp jobs).

Important: To apply, make sure you do the following:

• email your CV to Elizabeth at hostjobs@techhub.com
• include a covering email telling us why you're interested in the role
• briefly detail your relevant experience and skills in the email. We want to see that you're excited by this particular opportunity.
• include your salary expectations
• tell us which role you're interested in (early or late)
• and include your earliest start date 

 

Had a great final planning meeting with the designers and builders about the TechHub interior. We're not doing loads to the space (putting in some meeting rooms, getting rid of the old ceiling tiles and a few other things), so that we can get up and running asap and work's about to start - very exciting!

Watching Steve, Alice and Nick peering above the tiles to plan out the cabling, I couldn't resist taking a picture!





 

The lovely Alex is doing a great job as a TechHub intern, but we have so much going on, we're looking for another!

This will be involved in specific projects: to help us build out the additional member benefits that TechHub members can enjoy, and help in compiling a special TechHub guide to the local area.

TechHub member benefits project

• Co-ordinating and collating all the great offers we get for free and discounted products and services 
• Finding out more information about what's on offer and what the benefits are
• Helping to make decisions about which offers to accept
• Proactively contacting companies who's products or services we'd like to offer to members
• Visiting businesses local to TechHub to help arrange discounted services (like hotels, restaurants, taxi firms etc)   

We've started this process, and are looking for someone motivated, organised, outgoing and with great communication skills to get involved.

TechHub local guide project

• Where can you get the best coffee, breakfast, selection of beers?
• Which websites will tell you about very local cinema listings and gigs?
• How long does it take to walk to each station, bus stop, hotel?
• Where's the closest cash machine, mobile top-up, post office?
• you get the idea...

As TechHub's members will come from all over, we want to make sure that when they arrive they can find all the info they might need and how to get where they need to go right from TechHub's front door.

If you're good at research, with initiative and writing skills this would be an interesting project for you to get involved with.

What can you learn from interning with TechHub:

• How to think about your audience and what they need
• How to measure options against a set of criteria
• Time-management skills
• Planning skills
• Extra research, writing and editing skills
• How to craft and present a proposal 
• You can develop some skills in project management too if that's something you're interested in 
• You'll also gain an insight into running a business from working alongside a busy entrepreneur, and some useful contacts.

You can intern partly from home, partly in central London (Covent Garden & Old St),  and if you happen to know Old St/Shoreditch like the back of your hand, so much the better!

You'll be learning mostly from Elizabeth Varley director of TechHub (and former editorial director), and Alex Good who's gained some great experience and knows a thing or two about the workings of the business.

You can be involved with one or both of the above projects depending on your time and skills, and we anticipate the duration of your internship will be around 2-4 weeks. We'd love it if you could start immediately, and could intern with us full time, but let's talk about dates and days.

Email elizabeth at techhub dot com to apply.

Wow! Well we've had a massive response to our Founder Membership offer! Thanks so much to everyone who's applied, and and we'll be in touch with everyone by next Monday.

Also next week, we'll be opening up applications for standard TechHub Membership and Deskspace Membership  - I know there are lots of you itching to get your hands on our permanent desk spaces, so keep an eye out here and on twitter.

It's been a really busy week. We've been having some great conversations with companies interested in our three founding sponsor partnerships and we're very close to announcing the first of these.

After our very positive meeting at Downing St, we've been having some really interesting chats with the UKTI about how they can help support TechHub members in taking their businesses to an international level and break into new markets, and how non-UK businesses can get support for doing business in the UK. We're looking forward to hosting some advice sessions and events for TechHub members and guests.

Other organisations are also starting to get in touch about hosting their events in the TechHub event space - we'll have room for about 150 people seated, and more if it's a standing event. Looking forward to adding these to the TechHub events programme that's in the works.

It's so great to see that so many share our vision for how TechHub can help tech start-ups to be better businesses and grow faster. There's lots going on and to all those giving such wonderful support to the project, thank you!

Today sees the launch of the new TechHub website and a massive thanks goes to Mike Marcus (who was up til 2am tweaking the site!), Jase Cooper (responsible for our lovely logo & site design) and the guys from  SocialGO for making it happen.

I'm sure we'll see a few tweaks here and there, and the design will evolve too, but I'm so pleased with our shiny new look and logo.

We're in the process of populating the blog with previous posts (especially those fantastic video entries from all of you TechHub supporters), so bear with us, but do let us know if you spot any bugs or have any problems using the site.

Chris Steiner from Siondo likes TechHub for the opportunities it presents to connect entrepreneurs, investors and the media, also because TechHub Rocks!

Apparently his driver thinks TechHub rocks as well, and they're in India. It's possible that the driver is acting I suppose, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Make your own video and tweet it @TechHub to go into a draw to win free membership of TechHub for a year - somewhere to work and connect with tech entrepreneurs from all over the world.
 
originally published by Alex Good 

Shaa Wasmund has five reasons why she wants TechHub:

1. A place to beat the Americans
2. Good, affordable office space for startups.
3. As a place for face to face collaboration.
4. To extend 'Silicon Roundabout'.
5. Because you're worth it!

Make your own video and tweet it @TechHub to go into a draw to win free membership of TechHub for a year - somewhere to work and connect with tech entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Originally published by  Alex Good