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We are looking for full-time directors to lead our program in Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Your job will be to help build "Olympic level" CEOs, innovators, thought leaders, and researchers who will create an exciting future. You'll be working with two cohorts of 30-40 students per cohort (60-80 students total). The program is held on Sunday and runs for a duration of nine months.

Since the program is held on the weekend, your week will be flexible – you should spend this time learning and optimizing yourself. At TKS, we've developed a learning process and curriculum that's designed to build super-powered young people in a short period of time. You should expect to grow significantly in this role and learn about cutting-edge technologies and sciences.

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Hi, I'm Jennifer Brown, Director of Partnerships at The Knowledge Society (TKS). A little over a year ago, I joined TKS as one of the first employees. We have since expanded to five cities, adding another four new cities next year, and I'm looking to grow the partnerships team!

Accelerators like Y Combinator and Techstars are building "unicorn companies" – billion-dollar companies – in less than 10 years. TKS is building "unicorn people" who will impact billions by solving the world's most important problems using emerging technologies.

Our vision is to transform the education system globally and to expand to every major city around the world in six years. It's an ambitious goal, but one that I wholeheartedly believe in with the leadership of our passionate and dedicated co-founders, Navid and Nadeem Nathoo.

So what does this mean in terms of partnerships? TKS looks to partner with innovative companies, name brands that we all know, and niche companies working on super interesting problems. Whether it's to provide us with interesting problems to work on, space to run the program, or funding to keep the program accessible and inclusive, we rely on our partners to provide opportunities for our young innovators to accelerate their development and help us grow as a brand and organization.

Once someone understands the mission, it's incredible to see how the door opens to talk to almost any major company or founder/CEO/leader! To name drop some of people we've had a chance to connect with this year alone: Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams, Tony Hseih, Ryan Holmes, Tim Draper, and so many more.

We've engaged with or partnered with organizations like Softbank, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Udacity, SpaceX, and had our students speak at SXSW, CES, Web Summit, Collision, C2 Montreal - and even places like Microsoft Inspire where there was a private meet & greet with Satya Nadella!

The TKS world is one for the curious, ambitious, and driven. There is an incredible amount of flexibility when working here and when paired with a high standards mindset, it ensures that you continue to grow, push yourself, and continuously learn to be the best in what you do.

What you’ll be doing:

Since we're expanding so quickly (and I'll actually be going on maternity leave summer 2020), we are looking to hire talent to take on a senior role in Partnerships & Corporate Development. For a more formal job description, here it is:

• Work on partnership and corporate development strategy as we continue to expand to additional North American cities in 2020 and globally in 2021
• Develop new strategic and financial partnerships across North America, with special focus on San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, New York City, and Boston
• Manage and grow existing partnerships, leveraging relationships that have already been built by TKS staff and TKS students (our students often connect us with some amazing partners!)
• Relationships have already been built with major tech conferences globally, but ensure that we continue to maintain those relationships and attend the events if there is potential partnerships ROI
• Work cross-functionally with marketing, operations, and city directors to ensure that goals are aligned and that partnerships help support other department objectives (like student applications, financial aid, etc.)
• The main metrics of this role is to reach financial goals needed to be able to provide financial aid across all TKS cities and secure strategic partnerships that provide opportunities to accelerate the development of the students and/or accelerate the growth of the company

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience either in partnerships, corporate development, business development, or consultative sales - you know how to get creative about a custom partnership, ask for the business, and close it
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, but with an ability to stay casual in your style - we use lots of exclamation marks and emojis here at TKS!
• Understanding of the innovation and technology landscape is an asset
• You are fiercely independent and take initiative, while working in alignment with the team and the overall mission
• You are results oriented and get things done
• You love building relationships with sharp people
• You enjoy being around driven and energetic young people (i.e., our students)
• You are incredibly ambitious and continuously push boundaries for what is possible

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Tons of autonomy and responsibility in our results-driven environment
• Flexible hours – set your own working hours, we just care about results!
• Attend world-class conferences and events
• Network with influential people
• Work with smart people who enjoy high-quality conversations
• Build relationships with the next generation of unicorn founders
• Grow fast with the company
• Access to TKS program content – we value knowledge sharing, a lot!
• Refreshments: healthy snacks, cold drinks, and soda water

If you're interested in applying for this role, email Jennifer Brown, Director of Partnerships at jennifer@theksociety.com. Think of your application like your best outreach email!

TKS is looking for a Partnerships Marketing Specialist, Education to help generate applications to our program as we scale.

Finding the right students for TKS is our top priority, and we're looking for someone to own the most scalable part of our funnel: schools and organizations. You'll be responsible for strategy and execution, owning the full relationship cycle from prospecting, cultivating relationships, and engaging with educational leaders to uncover partnerships and opportunities for collaboration. Reporting to the Director of Marketing, you’ll be TKS’ first account executive to propel growth in these areas.

What you’ll be doing:

• Identify schools and education-oriented organizations that can help TKS scale up on applications
• Generate new applications by developing long-term, trust-based relationships across the education industry
• Prospect and cultivate relationships within current TKS cities (Toronto, New York, Ottawa, Las Vegas, and Boston) and develop relationships in new TKS cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver), through email, cold calling, in-person meetings, etc.
• Work with the Director of Marketing to build campaigns for educators and organizations, including videos, blog content, newsletters, events, webinars, etc.
• Manage a pipeline of partnership opportunities via HubSpot 
• Share market feedback and insights with colleagues to guide the creation of new marketing collateral that will lead to the development of a repeatable process

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience in a partnerships, sales, or business development role
• An innate ability to “just figure it out” – you’ll be building and executing a new strategy from scratch, in a startup environment
• Strong business and marketing acumen, with the ability to pull strategic insights from data 
• Confident negotiation skills with the ability to balance partner and brand priorities 
• Experience working with HubSpot or similar CRM
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
• Strong writing and communication skills – you should be a nerd about what makes a great email and a stickler for perfect grammar!
• Strong prioritization skills and a bias toward action
• Previous experience as an educator or working with young people is a bonus!

You should consider this role if...

• You're hard not to like.
• You're scrappy, curious, persuasive, and learn fast.
• You're mission driven and want to scale Education 2.0 around the world.
• High-pressure environments and responsibility don't phase you.
• You're results oriented and get things done.
• You love building relationships.
• You embrace ambiguity and uncertainty.
• You’re a natural communicator and can tell a great story.
• You enjoy being around driven and energetic young people (like our students!).

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Tons of autonomy and responsibility in our results-driven environment
• Flexible hours – set your own working hours, we just care about results!
• Attend world-class conferences and events
• Network with influential people
• Work with smart people who enjoy high-quality conversations
• Build relationships with the next generation of unicorn founders
• Grow fast with the company
• Access to TKS program content – we value knowledge sharing, a lot!
• Refreshments: healthy snacks, cold drinks, and soda water

If you're interested in applying for this role, email Tiffany Regaudie, Director of Marketing at tiffany@theksociety.com. Think of your application like your best outreach email!

TKS is looking for a public relations & communications specialist to make sure people know about the amazing things our students are doing every day.

Our students are rock stars – they speak at some of the world’s largest tech conferences, earn internships at companies like Microsoft/IBM, and use what they’ve learned at TKS to start their own companies (one of our students got their company acquired and another just raised money from the top investors in the world!). Every day at TKS, we hear about yet another cool thing our students are doing to impact the world – and we need someone to make sure those stories are amplified in our key markets. Reporting to the Director of Marketing, you’ll be a crucial part of the TKS brand building team.

What you’ll be doing:

• Write, edit, and deliver compelling media pitches, external content partnership pitches, press releases, articles, social media posts, etc.
• Target local media in current TKS cities (Toronto, New York, Ottawa, Las Vegas, and Boston), and new TKS cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver)
• Identify and assist with arranging speaking opportunities for TKS students and city directors
• Mobilize high-performing students and established partners as brand ambassadors for TKS
• Execute external content partnership outreach efforts to place and produce content that drives traffic back to our website
• Build, maintain, and engage with a network of media, student and partner influencers, and content partners
• Generate ideas for fresh, creative media campaigns and external content partnership pitches
• Identify industry trends and other news opportunities to pitch relevant and compelling stories
• Monitor, track, and report on media coverage and external content partnership initiatives
• Maintain media and influencer lists

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant communications and/or media relations experience
• Bachelor's degree in journalism, public relations, corporate communications, business, or relevant discipline
• Strong media relationships in the U.S. and Canada
• A bias toward action – you wouldn't think twice about picking up the phone to make things happen
• A basic understanding of SEO and backlinking
• An well-established understanding of the role of social media in PR
• Excellent project management skills
• Experience negotiating and landing major stories in digital and print media, radio, and television
• Experience articulating positioning and messaging within the context of media stories
• Experience with news writing and editorial strategy across owned, social, earned and paid channels
• Strong writing and communication skills – you should be a nerd about what makes great content and a stickler for good grammar!

You should consider this role if...

• You're hard not to like.
• You're scrappy, curious, persuasive, and learn fast.
• You're mission driven and want to scale Education 2.0 around the world.
• High-pressure environments and responsibility don't phase you.
• You're results oriented and get things done.
• You love building relationships.
• You embrace ambiguity and uncertainty.
• You’re a natural communicator and can tell a great story.
• You enjoy being around driven and energetic young people (like our students!).

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Tons of autonomy and responsibility in our results-driven environment
• Flexible hours – set your own working hours, we just care about results!
• Attend world-class conferences and events
• Network with influential people
• Work with smart people who enjoy high-quality conversations
• Build relationships with the next generation of unicorn founders
• Grow fast with the company
• Access to TKS program content – we value knowledge sharing, a lot!
• Refreshments: healthy snacks, cold drinks, and soda water

If you're interested in applying for this role, email Tiffany Regaudie, Director of Marketing at tiffany@theksociety.com. Think of your application like your best pitch!

TKS is looking for a Director of Growth to figure out how to expand to 50 major global cities in six years.

Yup, that's it.

Have you ever been asked if you’re good at dealing with ambiguity? Well, this is as ambiguous as it gets.

Here’s what we mean.

To launch a city, we need three things:

Applications – At least 300 student applications in launch cities and 500 in existing cities
Space – A cool home for TKS on the weekends, normally out of a top tech company that provides their space to run the program
City directors – one director and one associate director to run the program. A director is a former founder and has worked at a top tech company/startup/VC/consulting firm. They are legit.

You will be working with product, marketing, ops, and talent to ensure we have the processes, teams, and capabilities in place to scale. You will very quickly earn your way on to the senior leadership team and work directly with the founders. You should also love hiring people and growing teams. You will lead our director hiring strategy and execution – finding talented people working on really cool things, becoming their friends, and sharing how awesome this opportunity is in a short period of time – then work with them every day. Your KPIs will be tied to every function, and will be measured on student outcomes and city growth.

You should consider this role if:

• You are incredibly ambitious.
• You have a strong work ethic and bias toward action.
• You highIy value anti-fragility. You take feedback incredibly well and don't get flustered.
• You're an expert problem solver and have an ability to think from first principles. Nothing is impossible to you, there's always a way to figure it out.
• You're scrappy, curious, persuasive, and learn fast.
• You're incredibly mission driven and care about doing something bigger than yourself.
• High pressure environments and responsibility don't phase you.
• You're results oriented and get things done.
• You love building relationships with sharp people.
• You embrace ambiguity and uncertainty.
• You’re a team player and know how to motivate others to produce their best work.
• You’re a natural communicator and can tell a great story.
• Chill and easy to get along with / relate to.
• You enjoy being around driven and energetic young people (i.e., our students).

Requirements

• 7+ years experience and a background in either GM, VC, expansion, or top management consulting firms
• Have grown and managed teams
• Demonstrated capacity to develop people and lead well
• Have been responsible for hiring senior/managerial talent
• Experience opening and staffing new offices in different geographies
• Mission driven and wants to have a large positive impact on the world

Benefits & Perks

• Access to TKS content (should always be learning!).
• Flexible hours – set your own working hours, we just care about results
• Attend world-class conferences and events.
• Network with influential people
• Build close relationships with the next-generation of unicorn founders
• Grow fast with the company
• Generous equity package

 

If you're interested in applying for this role, email Nadeem Nathoo, Co-founder and Executive Director at nadeem@theksociety.com.

TKS is looking for a Director of Talent to build a world class organization as we scale. We have extremely high standards and all the people we bring on to the team will be world-class (we will not settle). You will be directly responsible for fuelling our growth and launching different cities so that more students can have access to TKS around the world. We expect to be in every major city globally in 5 years, and you will play an important part in making this happen.

We're not like a Wealthsimple or Ritual, where we need to add 200 headcount by next year with 80% of hires being marketing, sales, and/or devs. Our volume will about 10-15 people for 2020, but all incredibly impressive and senior-level talent. We'll need to get them excited to leave whatever they're doing to join our mission to impact billions. These people might be a former founder who just exited, a PM at Space X, or a PhD working on really cool tech who started a company and now they're looking for their new thing. This role is imperative to launch our new cities, so we view this as an opportunity to drive our growth function and build relationships with incredibly interesting people. In this role, your main responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

+ People Acquisition & Retention: You will be building out the talent acquisition strategy from scratch. Specifically, you will focus on developing our inbound and outbound strategy for attracting world-class people, and make sure we are delivering on their needs to retain them. You will also be accountable for executing on your strategy to get incredibly bright minds around the world to join us on our mission.

+ Employer Brand: Create the infrastructure to act as a magnet for attracting world-class talent.

+ Culture Ambassador: TKS is very clear on the culture it wants to drive. You will be responsible for helping to foster this culture throughout the organization, especially when it comes to external stakeholders.

You should consider this role if:

• You're an expert problem solver and have an ability to think from first principles.
• You're scrappy, curious, persuasive, and learn fast.
• You're incredibly mission driven and want to scale Education 2.0 around the world.
• High pressure environments and responsibility don't phase you.
• You're results oriented and get things done.
• You love building relationships with incredibly sharp people.
• You embrace ambiguity and uncertainty.
• You’re a team player and know how to motivate others to produce their best work.
• You’re a natural communicator and can tell a great story.
• Chill and easy to get along with / relate to.
• You enjoy being around driven and energetic young people (i.e., our students).

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in a people-focused role (recruitment, management consulting, sales, BD, account exec, PM, growth, etc..). You don't need to come from a traditional recruitment background.
• Have built an early stage startup function from scratch.
• Demonstrated capacity to develop people and lead well.
• Have been responsible for hiring senior/managerial talent.
• Experience opening and staffing new offices in different geographies.
• Mission driven and wants to have a large positive impact on the world.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Access to TKS content (should always be learning!).
• Flexible hours - set your own working hours, we just care about results. 
• Attend world-class conferences and events.
• Network with influential people.
• Build close relationships with the next-generation of unicorn founders.
• Grow fast with the company.

You should expect to learn a great deal in this role, with a strong focus on your personal and professional development. You will also gain deep knowledge in every significant emerging technology and science and be part of a continuous learning culture. You will be directly responsible for helping launch cities and provide this opportunity to students who will go on to solve important problems in the world, like curing cancer or reversing climate change. You will make an impact and change the lives of ambitious young people in this role... and you’ll love every second of it!

If you're interested in applying for this role, email Nadeem Nathoo, Co-founder and Executive Director at nadeem@theksociety.com.