Careers at MindValley

Where Happiness is The New Productivity

Why do insanely smart people from around the world give up traditional job ideas and instead come and work for MindValley?

Because J-O-B is a dirty word. Work, we believe, needs to be fun, educational and something that makes you excited that you jump out of bed each morning.

Screw the Traditional 9-5 Job. Instead, get paid to Play, Create, Learn and Grow. It’s like Being a Child Again. But with a Salary.

Over the last few years MindValley has won awards and accolades for creating one of the most unique and desirable work cultures in the world.

We’re reinventing “work”. Read on to see how…

1. Freedom

We understand that brilliant people hate rules and shackles, and desire the freedom to do their work – in their way.

2. Great People

Our work culture, high salaries and employee development programs attract brilliant applicants from around the world. Make it in, and you’ll be working with some of the best minds in the business. We understand that “A” people attract “A” people.

3. Culture & Perks

We treat our employees well. Team retreats to paradise islands, annual dinners and parties, generous bonuses, a designer office, monthly social events, mentorship, training programs, access to a personal development library and more.

4. Training & Education

Your typical work week is 45 hours. Of this time, we allow you to spend 5 hours a week studying a new skill. You get access to a massive library of coaching and training material plus mentorship from senior employees. In addition, we frequently get world-class entrepreneurs, authors and speakers visiting our office as guest speakers for our weekly company meetings.

5. Stability

We have never taken a drop of investment and so have no investors to pull the plug on us. We’re fully private, self-funded and profitable. We started with $500 and a laptop in January 2003 and have grown rapidly since.

6. Fun

We put the “Fun” in “Business Fundamentals”. Don’t get us wrong—we’re a disciplined, well-oiled engine of growth. But we believe that business should be fun and people should look forward to going to work each day. And so we create a work environment that is designed to make your tasks, your team mates and even company meetings, a ton of fun.

7. Giving Back

Many of our employees have spent significant time volunteering or working for non-profits. We started this business to change the world. Money came naturally. As a result, we will devote our time and attention to causes that may not bring in short term profits, but may result in positive social change. In our spare time MindValley folks volunteer their time to charitable causes that have so far include education programs for refugees in South East Asia, funding for schools in Africa and life training skills at orphanages.

8. Entrepreneurship

We understand that great people dream of starting their own companies. We help you attain this dream. We provide training and mentorship to help you grow. We do not require any employees to sign a bonding contract. Simply put, you are free to learn from us and then move on when you are ready to start your own business. We respect entrepreneurship.

9. Thinking BIG!

With small ideas, we aim for big impact. When we build a web app, we want it to change the way people use the web. When we start an eCommerce venture, we aim to be either #1 or #2 in the market. We aim to be as influential in improving people’s lives through technology as Yahoo, Google or Apple. We love Big, Scary, Audacious Goals.

10. Profitability

We’re fully profitable and continue to grow each year at impressive rates. This translates into huge monthly bonuses and generous employee perks.

MindValley works with authors and thought-leaders in the field of personal and business transformation and we publish their works in the form of new media. This means going beyond traditional books and instead developing software, website, membership sites, movies, audio and video training and more.

We combine marketing and technology to then get these products out to a wide audience.

Learn more about the products, software and films we’re creating here »

We hire poets, writers, mathematicians, entrepreneurs, web application developers, DJs, programmers, video artists—from around the world. At MindValley, you find yourself surrounded by insanely bright people, with fascinating lives and hobbies, doing work that they’re passionate about.

We discovered that brilliant people get burned out by normal 9-5 jobs. So at MindValley we built a company culture that allows our employees the freedom to work on things that make them happy, allow them to grow, provide them enough free time to pursue their own hobbies, and help them move towards their own personal dreams.

Alexandra Business Manager

An experienced PPC goddess who’s cranked out wildly profitable 6-figure Google AdWords campaigns, Alexandra is responsible for studying and executing the latest profit-boosting internet marketing trends, corresponding with partners and managing her business unit’s million dollar properties.

Her charisma and charm makes her a pro at maintaining a profitable relationship with her customers and has been known to get upwards of 900 comments on a single blog post.

Apart from managing her team and growing her current business, Alex is also experienced in launching exciting new products and sites, the most recent of which pulled in $101,512.95 in just two days flat.

Her constant positive attitude and passion for “living it up” make it no wonder that Alex is also MindValley’s Fun Fund Manager. She is a networking genius and is responsible for throwing company parties that have been previously described as “legendary” in the press.

Having been a ballet, hip hop and jazz dance lover for 13 years, it’s not uncommon to find her busting serious moves on the dance floor on the weekends.

Although she misses regular snowboard trips to the Rocky Mountains, the trilingual “Canuck” spends her time in Asia indulging in her other passions of traveling, writing and awe-inspiring professional photography.

Amir Social Media Strategist

Having been invited for conferences co-organized by Harvard University and attended international ones, Amir is a blogaholic and a passionate observer of the blogosphere. In fact, he’s currently busy writing a book on the subject in relation to spirituality and freedom of conscience.

His blog-related work has been featured on CNN, BBC, USA Today, Reuter’s AlertNet and Aljazeera International. Moreover, his own blog has also been nominated and handpicked as a top 10 finalist out of thousands, three times in a row, for the world’s largest blog competition, The Weblog Awards. It was his stepping stone into the exciting world of social media.

On top of that, the public speaking champion and passionate music lover is obviously a full-time web junkie at MindValley where he’s responsible for bringing in over a million dollars of annual revenue, and helping grow the company using cutting-edge relationship marketing and viral social media strategies that leverage blogs, SEO, YouTube, email promos and even Facebook.

Prashant Director of Engineering

Prashant brings many years of experience with technical operations, software engineering and product development from across a variety of Internet companies. He enjoys working in a fast-paced and engineering-driven environment, loves envisioning projects, and is always happy to wear multiple hats in development and systems administration.

He maintains a strong commitment to quality and reliability as well as an enthusiasm for developing MindValley’s technology infrastructure for future growth.

Wu Han Chief Designer

Wu Han is MindValley’s design superhero and user interface ninja. He is devotedly obsessed with user experiences on web sites and applications as he is with the cutting edge technology that drives it. He can conduct the symphony orchestra with CSS and HTML and weaves ideas and copy into beautiful web pages.

His technical and aesthetic abilities are bolstered by his varied career experiences which sees him blazing a trail through the kitchen of a top Australian restaurant, a leading pre-publishing firm, a high profile dot-com, an award winning e-learning company and a super-premium interactive agency. He’s designed for K-12 educators, doctors, university professors, consumers, marketers and the rest of the typical 80% demographics—Wu Han has a pretty good idea of what he’s doing and proud of it.

This LEGO-loving, young dad of two still finds the internet exciting despite having been in the industry for over 10 years. Wu Han wants to be famous one day doing what he enjoys everyday—making the web more awesome and inspiring others to do the same.

Justyna Business Manager

Graduating with the highest grade for her Masters in Marketing from Poland and B.A. in Management from U.K., it is of no surprise that this little energy-packed Polish wonder is always striving for higher ground. Justyna’s refusal to accept the sky as the limit has become one of MindValley’s most valuable assets as time and time again, she drives projects to record-breaking ground.

Aptly in charge of overseeing business growth, Justyna brings crucial entrepreneurial skills to the table with her exceptional work experience, ranging from the prestigious Accenture to her own offline and online jewelry making business. With sharp intuition and excellent communication skills, Justyna also negotiates quality partnerships for MindValley, building million dollar businesses in 6 months flat.

Other than making her mark in everything she touches, Justyna’s other passions include impressionism art such as Van Gogh and letting her hair down on the dance floor.

At MindValley, Justyna, an expert in relationship marketing, oversees the growth of her multi-million dollar online business units. She also runs a team that identifies hot new niches ripe for new product offerings via Search Engine Marketing and Google PPC.

Juan Chief Operating Officer

Made in Argentina, Juan is our resident execution evangelist and productivity junkie. He simply loves “Getting Things Done” in record time and more importantly with awesome results.

He joined MindValley as project manager and together with his teammates was able to pull off the company’s biggest launch (so far) in just 45 hours of work flat.

Nowadays as our rock-star COO, Juan is fully dedicated to making MindValley run smoothly and creating a high-speed implementation and ambitious results-oriented work culture.

While working for corporations in several industries from Steel and Oil & Gas Corporations to Telecommunications and IT Firms (such as IBM), Juan always had and continues to run side businesses to feed his entrepreneurial soul. From teaching super learning techniques, exporting hardwood charcoal to tennis racket imports, Juan’s interests are diverse.

He focuses his “free” time on growing his real estate investments, his Spanish Internet properties, traveling in Asia and building his personal brand as furious marketer.

Despite his average English, his burning passion for achievement made him accomplish a lot in his 28 years.

Why did Vishen and Mike move MindValley from New York and San Francisco to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?

Our head office is in Malaysia for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is one of the hottest economic growth regions in the world. Within a 4 hour flight of Kuala Lumpur, you can access 3 billion people. 90% of our business is in the USA and Europe right now… but we see Asia as a rapidly emerging market.

The other reason is that Malaysia is an incredibly fun country to run a company in. MindValley people spend their weekends visiting exotic islands, exploring rain-forests, working on non-profit courses, partying in the bars and clubs of Kuala Lumpur, and visiting amazing tourist destinations like Phuket, Bali, Tioman or Angkor—all within a few hours flight. This is one of the most amazing tourist destinations in the world—land of perpetual summer and exotic nature.

See how the MindValley team spend their time here in Malaysia »

Much of the work we do is on the cutting edge of marketing and technology. You can’t get an education in blogging, internet marketing, creating viral YouTube videos or Ruby on Rails programming. So we hire people based on their ability to think, to grow, and to strive to be the best in their fields.

We hire programmers, database engineers, writers, bloggers, DJs, videographers, artist, poets, mathematicians, marketers, NGO workers. Your education isn’t important. Your life story, personal accomplishments, personality, skills and goals are what we really look for.

Our available positions change monthly, but here’s what we’re recruiting for right now.

Click here to view all the available positions currently at MindValley »

Careers @ MindValley

Everything you need to know about pursuing your dream career with us:

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• What We Do
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