Location: Remote - You must be willing to travel for one week a month to our co-working sessions, mostly in Los Angeles
Benefits:
- Includes healthcare benefits
- Flexible, remote work
- Impactful company equity (you will be a cofounder)
About EagleCorps: EagleCorps prepares and places veterans in high quality technical jobs through our online-based job training and talent marketplace. Veterans struggle financially and emotionally to transition to civilian life, with nearly 50% of veterans unable to find jobs in the first 6 months out of the military. We believe placing veterans in technology jobs will meaningfully increase not just their salary but also their quality of life.
Why this role exists: This role needs to drive strategy and lead fundraises, in addition to execution, management, etc.
Required:
- You have a passion for the EagleCorps mission
- You have helped build a company in software or software-enabled services space
- You have either sales, growth, or product “DNA”
- You must be willing to travel for one week a month to our co-working sessions
Skills:
- Business-minded:
- Has experience running a P&L for a unit or entire company.
- Business Sense - You understand business models and you can build a quick model. You can read a set of financials and ask the right questions to improve your business. You are metrics-oriented and can analyze your financials to make key decisions.
- Leadership: You have built and led teams before. You have the charisma and ability to storytell which helps across all areas of the business, including recruiting, sales, and marketing.
- Action Bias: You are oriented towards execution. You’re adaptable when conditions change (as they constantly do in startups), and you continually test, gather data / digest findings, and evolve concepts. You’re a scrappy leader who has the ability to get things done with limited resources.
- You understand how to scale content distribution through a variety of channels
Qualities:
- Student Obsessed
- Anticipating our student’s needs proactively
- Do what’s long-term best for our students
- Everything is Challengeable
- Ask anyone anything
- Respect the person, challenge the idea or system
- Bring the Solution
- Individualistic problem solving and proposals
- Take a stab at a solution before bringing it up
Bonus:
- Experience in working with government is a plus, govtech
In the first 90-days:
- Build the plan for 2023 strategy and execution, including hiring and financing plan.
- Recruit the March student cohort of 6 students (inclusive of attrition, so 12 to start).
- Get our 2 graduating students to final interviews for jobs.
In the first 12-months:
- You will be responsible for building a network of companies that hire our pool of veterans
- You will hire and run a team of teachers, TAs, and admissions counselors
- You will graduate and place 15 students by EOY 2023