Covive

Covive is a startup that started a coliving operation in Mexico City on November 2018. They believe sharing is the future for making more sustainable and efficient cities. Their vision is making it so that sharing a house can be simple, fun and with no hassles. Right now, they offer furnished rooms for long-term rent with shared common areas (kitchen, dining, living and laundry room) in dwellings smartly operated for community life. One-monthly fee. Everything included.

Internship Description

They are currently preparing the company to go from 16 rooms to 80 rooms in 2020. Interns will be welcomed during the launching preparation of new locations and their new web app, which is an opportunity to add immediate impact and tangible value to their business. They are looking forward to receiving interns willing to choose, design and implement experiments to improve their marketing or product design. They are also very open to receiving an art intern focused on doing creative work (illustration, photo, writing, etc) that can be assembled in houses, social media or blog.

Intern Responsibilities

  • Deep dive into the startup challenges, learn our business model and present an experiment

  • Report directly to one of the two co-founders of Covive

  • Present findings at the startup sprint meeting on a biweekly basis

  • Provide written reports of their work on a weekly basis 

Intern Qualifications

  • Believer in the sharing economy

  • Build-Learn-Measure Mindset

  • Willing to talk with potential or current customers (in Spanish or English)

  • Excited to find opportunities and implement to add tangible value

  • Curiosity in low-cost automation, A/B Testing, Prototyping, or Customer Validation

  • Interest in archictecture, housing, interior design, innovation, marketing, web-design, learn methodology, product design

  • Skills: Doer and problem solving with time and resource constraints

  • Experience: Has lived alone, abroad, with roommates or in a co-living project (ideal)

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