Community Growth Lead

You should join koodos labs for the people and our mission.

We aspire to build the best team of the 2020s. Just like PayPal in the 90s, Google in the 00s, and Stripe in the 10s, we want to be known as "a place where it's good to be from." If you join us, we promise to be the best place to grow your career — with the best people you've ever worked with. We’re also working on a very bold mission.

We care deeply about helping people connect more deeply with themselves and others. And in the spirit of personal empowerment, we aim to invert the internet's data model over time and put individuals in control of their digital identities.

We’re building Shelf. It's a digital shelf that updates as you consume content online. You can control what shows up on your shelf, and see when people you know are watching, reading or listening to the same thing. And it's built on top of infrastructure that allows you to reclaim control over your consumption and interest data, and provision third-party access to it to personalize experiences without compromising your privacy.

As Community Growth Lead, you'll work directly with our CEO (Jad) and be instrumental in helping scale Shelf’s impact. You’ll help seed Shelf in existing communities, manage relationships with community partners & creators, and refine Shelf’s brand in key target communities.

We’re early stage, so you'll have an outsized equity stake and an unparalleled opportunity to shape the company’s direction.

We’re a small, but mighty team with backgrounds in big tech, as startup founders and as early members at successful startups. We’ve come together around a shared vision and are dedicated to creating important and positive experiences for cyberspace.

We're well resourced (unannounced rounds) & backed by top-tier investors, including the backers of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Snap, and Twitter, as well as the founders of companies like Zynga, VSCO, and Scale and the people behind artists like Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Lorde, Logic, and Panic! At The Disco, and many others. Our team is advised by the founders of Pinterest, Dubsmash (now Reddit), as well as pioneers of digital marketing and market design from Harvard.

We care about building a genuinely diverse team. We are a majority-first gen immigrant team and sponsor visas — we think that’s important as we build towards enabling easier digital migration. We share the same values of individuality, empathy, reliability, kindness and humility. One big overlap among our life experiences is contrasts: contrasts between our own upbringing and the world around us, contrasts between what was expected of us and what we ended up pursuing and our bringing together of contrasting, interdisciplinary worlds.

More about us here.

You’re likely a good fit if you:

Have undeniable persistence to make things happen — and you have proof that you’ve done that repetitively in the past.

You’re on top of internet culture: You know what’s in, and what’s not. You have your finger on the pulse — and can spot a trend from a mile away.

Have organizational chops: You can set up and run efficient collaborative sessions, manage contractors, set up goals and run towards them.

Are strategic and analytical: You are comfortable continually assessing Shelf's community strategies, content and conversion performance, and translating insights into action.

You love building relationships: You thrive reaching out to and building relationships with relevant community leaders, and can motivate people to exceed their own expectations.

Want to work hard: This isn’t a ‘big company’ job and we put our heart into our work. You understand that building great companies takes a lot of work, and also know that seed-stage companies can offer some of the most challenging, invigorating, and rewarding experiences. It helps if you’ve experienced the ups and downs of startup life before, but so long as you’re excited for an adventure, we’re excited to have you join.

Looking to learn fast: You are comfortable building early-stage communities and brands, and taking action with imperfect information. You should be comfortable adapting rapidly while remaining focused on goal.

Here are some quotes from team members around an aspirational hire:

Day 1: You’ll run your first mini community outreach experiment and get the lowdown on masterplan + roadmap.

Day 7: We believe in learning-by-doing, so you’ll jump right in. You’ll have identified some early experiments you want to run with, and started to establish relationships with some of our influential community members and started to isolate communities you want to target.

Day 30: You’ll be a core contributor! You’ll have a first iteration of a community growth strategy, and be running at a strong cadence leading experiments and programs. We have an ownership culture, so as soon as you’re familiar with the business and roadmap, we’ll put you in charge!

In the Future: You’ll become a leader at koodos labs, either as a people manager or an individual contributor. We expect the early team to grow into high-impact roles as the company scales.

We lean heavily on potential, demonstrated ability, and references.

First: We start by taking a look at your background and portfolio — particularly any relevant work growing consumer apps or games.

Interviews: We start the interview process with a discussion to hear more about your prior experience (including discussion of the creative work you’ve done) and goals, and to tell you more about koodos labs.

The 2nd interview would then be a 45-minute free-flowing whiteboarding session. This’ll give us both a sense of what it’s like to jam! If it goes well, we’ll move straight into final stage onsite.

Onsite: We’ll invite you to meet the team at our office in West Soho! It’ll be a series of discussions with team members. We think it’s important for you to get a feel for what it’s like to collaborate with the team.

References: After the interview stage, we ask for 2-3 references who would be willing to discuss their experiences working with you. We will also likely reach out to other folks that you’ve worked with in the past, so please do let us know if there’s anyone we shouldn’t reach out to. We’ll make sure to be respectful of their time; most calls take about 15 minutes. And we also offer you the opportunity to reference check us!

Decision: This part’s on us, and we promise to move fast.