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TKS is looking for an account executive 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 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 disseminate resources for educators and organizations, including videos, blog content, newsletters, events, webinars, etc.
• Manage a pipeline of opportunities ranging from a prospect who’s expressed a need through to a partner (partner, in this case, is a “closed deal”!)
• Share market feedback and insights with colleagues to guide the creation of new marketing collateral that will iteratively and ultimately lead to the development of a repeatable process

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience in a sales or business development role
• 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 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.