Operations

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Title and seniority is essentially meaningless at the early stage, and so this role (like many others) can be extremely senior or relatively junior. We will compensate accordingly.

Running an in-person school involves a ton of operations. So does running a startup. We need someone who can do both. I think this role will be insanely fun so I thought I'd just list a bunch of the things I need right now as an example:

• Find a campus for the school. Negotiate the contract. Potentially build a co-working space inside of it and manage all of those subtenants. I already have lots of leads here btw but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

  • Then of course you'll need to build it out :). Create a robotics lab, furnish it, etc.

• Figure out housing. I want students to have the opportunity to live in the same place. I already have a good option here, but want more before we lock it in. Then you'll need to figure out furnishing, costs, contracts, etc.

  • Then of course you'll need to help students get access to the housing, design the systems to answer questions students may have, etc.

• Finance, accounting, legal, HR (recruiting, onboarding, and ongoing management). As much as you're capable of, I'd love for you to take these things over immediately.

• Business Development. I'm posting a separate job description for this, but a senior person might also be capable of managing our corporate and hiring partnerships with our insane set of logos. That means wrangling them, negotiating with them, and most importantly, delivering them value!

• Student life. There will be a social side of student life and an operational side. This is more about the latter. You'll build systems so our students can study abroad (literally anywhere - including the Amazon or Antarctica or Tokyo or Paris).

• Regulatory. There's a lot of paperwork involved in being a school. You should be able to build an internal AI system that can easily fill this stuff out and deliver it to the right people.

• CRM. Look at our website. Someone needs to organize all of that into a massive database so our students have access to the network in the easiest way possible. Some venture firms do a great job with this and I'd expect you figure out how they do it and replicate it.

There is likely a lot more. What you can tell is we need a jack of all trades. MBA-type (but obviously not necessary). Super organized. Super sharp. Incredibly high horsepower. We might even bring on multiple people from this job posting.