Careers at Readyforce

Readyforce, the leading career network for college students, is the easiest way for students to launch amazing careers. Focusing on engineering students in 2013, the Readyforce network connects students to influential business leaders, powerful campus programs, engaging networking events, and exciting jobs and internships at cool start-ups and innovative companies of all sizes. Readyforce is backed by Menlo Ventures, US Venture Partners, Pivot North, Founder Collective and First Round Capital.

Marketing Program/Events Manager

San Francisco

Summary

Your goal is to create, design, implement, manage, iterate and continuously improve scalable programs & events that engage and drive new student acquisition, company acquisition and revenue for Readyforce.

About You

  • You connect and understand the needs, wants and culture of engineering students and the companies that want to hire them.
  • You think in big and excited ways that get media attention.
  • You are hyper organized with amazing attention to detail.
  • You know how to track success with numbers, data and a budget.
  • You find creative ways to get stuff done quickly and with few resources.
  • You always look for ways to make things better, more efficient, more scalable or less expensive.
  • You can pitch your ideas in a clear and concise way that gets people excited.
  • You love to run with limited guidance and oversight, but know when to ask questions.
  • You have good product intuition.
  • You understand and love startup life.

Your responsibilities will be to develop and own...

  1. Student Powered Conferences - this is a program designed to find amazing student leaders that want to create programs that help top students attend cool conference around the county. It is modeled off of interactatx.com, a student created event for 100 top students to go to SXSW. In many ways, we are crowdsourcing cool events for students.
  2. Readyforce Powered Events - from time to time, Readyforce will design and execute its own events. The event currently in process is a huge summer game competition. Readyforce presents the largest student game competition to kick off the summer. 400 students and 50 companies competing to take home the title of Summer 2013 Gamer God.
  3. Hacker Tour 2013 - this is version 2.0 of www.hackertour2012.com. Let’s make this bigger and more awesome.

More about this role...

  • You will own and manage a P&L.
  • You will have revenue responsibility...that means you can sell.
  • You will likely need to do some traveling.
  • You will report to the CEO.
  • All levels of experience are welcome, but only the awesome should apply.
  • Compensation: $50k to $100k plus options and benefits (DOE).

Finally, you will be asked to do an exercise as a part of the interview process at Readyforce.

After the first wave phone interviews, you will be asked to:

  1. Pick one of the events above.
  2. Design a marketing plan, an execution plan and a budget that reflects the “about you” section above.
  3. You will have 15 minutes to present your plan to Readyforce’s CEO and 15 minutes of Q&A.

Please note...you can ask an unlimited number of questions before the presentation.

Interested in this role?

Email your resume and why you love this job to: jobs@readyforce.com

Product Marketing Manager

San Francisco

Summary

Your goal is drive new student acquisition via Readyforce’s new resume book feature and new events feature. This is a hybrid sales, marketing and product development role that will involve reaching out to student leaders, getting them to create resume books and events on Readyforce and working with the engineering team to make the feature better.

About You

  • You connect and understand the needs, wants and culture of engineering students and the companies that want to hire them.
  • You think in big and excited ways that get media attention.
  • You are hyper organized with amazing attention to detail.
  • You know how to track success with numbers, data and a budget.
  • You find creative ways to get stuff done quickly and with few resources.
  • You always look for ways to make things better, more efficient, more scalable or less expensive.
  • You can pitch your ideas in a clear and concise way that gets people excited.
  • You love to run with limited guidance and oversight, but know when to ask questions.
  • You have good product intuition.
  • You understand and love startup life.

Your responsibilities will be to develop and own...

  1. Resume Books - this feature was designed as a way for student leaders or school representatives to easily create, manage and share online resume books to help their members get more exposure. Go here to see how the feature works http://www.readyforce.com/rf/lists and here to see what a public list looks like http://www.readyforce.com/Stanfordstartup101careerfair. The goal of this feature is to drive both student and company acquisition.
  2. Events on Readyforce - in January 2013, we acquired www.umeqo.com and are currently in the process of integrating into Readyforce. This feature is like “Eventbrite for College Events” and has seen good success at MIT driving over 1000 new students and over 300 new companies.

More about this role...

  • You will talk with hundreds of student leaders and school representatives.
  • You will have member acquisition targets and a budget.
  • You will work closely with the engineering team to make features better.
  • You will likely need to do some traveling.
  • You will report to the CEO.
  • All levels of experience are welcome, but only the awesome should apply.
  • Compensation: $50k to $100k plus options and benefits (DOE).

Finally, you will be asked to do an exercise as a part of the interview process at Readyforce.

After the first wave phone interviews, you will be asked to:

  1. Pick one of the features above.
  2. Design a marketing plan, an execution plan and a budget that reflects the “about you” section above.
  3. You will have 15 minutes to present your plan to Alex and 15 minutes of Q&A.

Interested in this role?

Email your resume and why you love this job to: jobs@readyforce.com