Social Media & Events Intern

Culdesac is a real estate and technology startup that builds cities for people, not cars. Our goal is to create the first car-free city in the US. We started by creating the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US - Culdesac Tempe, a $200 million mixed-use neighborhood development for 1,000 residents, which opened in 2023. The neighborhood covers 17 acres and features 55% open space, shared courtyards, and 10+ retailers including the James Beard-nominated Cocina Chiwas. Culdesac is the co-developer and property manager.

Read more about our vision, our product, and how we are changing how people live, work, and move:

Introducing Culdesac: Building car-free neighborhoods from scratch by Ryan Johnson (CEO & Founder)

The Capital of Sprawl Gets a Radically Car-Free Neighborhood by The New York Times

Watch New Car-Free Neighborhood in Arizona - NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

Paying Rent Will Get You Wheels in New Car-Free Complex by Bloomberg

Listen to the conversation about designed environments to improve healthspan, mobility, and positive habits - Ryan Johnson and hall-of-fame basketball player Steve Nash on the Good Traffic podcast

11 rules for buying an ebike. Ebikes are about to change the world. By Ryan Johnson (CEO & Founder)

We’re headquartered in Tempe, AZ and were founded in 2018. CEO Ryan Johnson was previously on the founding team of Opendoor and has been managing property since 2003. Our investors include Khosla Ventures (led OpenAI’s seed round), Lennar (#2 homebuilder in the US), Zigg Capital, and Y Combinator.

The Role

Culdesac is growing our team and looking for a Social Media & Events Intern at Culdesac Tempe to help with our mission. This is an onsite Tempe-based role.

You will help shape the local and national conversation around urbanism, planning, transportation, and community in the US.

You will help oversee our weekly Thursday night market, as well as its social media presence and content.

You will be an integral part of our digital marketing vision and help elevate Culdesac’s brand awareness.

You will act as a Culdesac ambassador who is creative, solution-oriented, marketing-savvy, adept at cultivating leads, and capable of running events smoothly.

The Requirements
While this list represents what we are ideally looking for, we encourage you to apply even if your resume includes strengths and experiences that don’t match everything listed here. You ideally have 1-2 years of experience developing high-quality content such as blog posts, emails, and you are an extraordinary writer and an even better editor. Additionally, you have 1-2 years of experience in event planning and programming.

You have experience executing quality content projects from start to finish - ideation, writing, researching, editing, and distribution.

You have experience overseeing event planning, connecting with vendors, and managing logistics.

You can creatively and visually advertise our weekly night market on social media.

You have excellent communication skills and use best practices in messaging, terminology, writing, and style.

You are passionate about the spaces in which Culdesac operates - urbanism, mobility, transportation, planning, and community.

You have experience collaborating with teammates to create and execute marketing initiatives.

You strategically plan both content and distribution and align it with our mission and vision.

You have a strong knowledge of social media principles and best practices.

You prioritize a lifestyle leveraging public transportation, micromobility, and other alternatives to private cars.

Locations

We are headquartered in Tempe, AZ, and our office is located in the heart of downtown Tempe. We encourage employees to visit and work in our beautiful Tempe office. This position is an onsite role at Culdesac Tempe and our Tempe office.

Our Story

Culdesac Tempe isn't a typical multifamily property. Here's our vision for the community:

Imagine a community. Where neighbors know each other by name.

Think of a neighborhood. Where shared spaces are a‘plenty.

Think of a city block. Where courtyards and parks and communal spaces are spread throughout.

It’s where you can hang your hat, to knock your socks off, to make space for quality time. It’s a place to rest your head, or your laurels, thanks to all the shared courtyards.

Every path leads not just to a destination, but to moments. Genuine connection or serendipitous encounters, and everything in between. It's all part of the blueprint that makes this community so special.

It’s a wonderful place to come back to after a busy day, but it’s also pretty easy just to stay put. That’s because nearly everything you need is within just a few strides of your front door. When you’re ready to explore, easy connections to public transit, rideshare and e-bikes are at your disposal.

This is a community designed to connect. Connect residents to one another. Consumers to artisans. Commuters to their place of work. This is life where everything connects. It’s where we live.

Culdesac.

Life Where Everything Connects.

Our Values

At Culdesac, we:

Work as a team

Be inclusive, drawing on the strengths of people who bring a different perspective.

Find ways to work together that overcome disciplinary and geographic separations.

Act from ownership

Be output oriented. When we see a problem, we roll up our sleeves and fix it.

Don’t let blockers stop you from seeing your work through to the end.

Rule 0, then iterate

Don’t start from scratch: learn from our own and others’ previous attempts.

Before mass private car ownership, all cities were models of walkability. We learn from the designs of the past and make them beautiful and relevant to today.

Then, we learn from our own designs to continually improve.

Design for humans

Ask people for feedback and observe behavior. Only users know if we’re creating value for them.

Human paradoxes and contradictions are our opportunity to create joy.

Respect the limits of what we can know and plan. In the complex organism of a city, emergent behavior rules.

Create and capture value

Focus on what our residents value: profitability is essential for sustainability and allows us to scale.

Great places create positive externalities for ourselves and our neighbors, unlike the negative externalities of cars.

We build value by executing on the fundamentals and excelling at mobility, community, and open space.

Next Steps

If you think Culdesac might be a good fit, we encourage you to apply! If we move forward, here's our typical process:

• A 15-minute call with a recruiter to understand your high-level background and cover logistics & expectations
• A 30-minute video call with our Business Operations & Site Activation hiring manager to dig more into your background & experience
• A 30-minute video call with our People Team to understand how you would fit in Culdesac’s mission, vision, and culture
• A 30-minute video call with our Marketing Director to to share more in-depth about the project and upcoming needs
  
  
  
  
  

At each step, we leave time for you to ask us questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

Culdesac is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.