WANTED: FUNKY ARTISTS AND ENGINEERS

CONTACT
Please send a short email summarizing how your interests sync with those of Build-It-Yourself to John Galinato at:
john@build-it-yourself.com

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COO => CEO (Part time to full time)
We seek a leader who is passionate about education and entrepreneurship to guide Build-It-Yourself in a rapid growth phase.
1) A business model that projects >$100M annual revenue
2) Real ownership and visibility into key business decisions
3) Direct access to founders and investors
4) Opportunity to shape a mission-driven ed-tech company at an inflection point
5) An existing platform that can be scaled and monetized, not just analyzed

Core Profile:
1) Business developer with strong strategic and commercial instincts
2) Demonstrated ability to close complex deals or partnerships
3) Comfortable operating with limited structure and high ownership

Mindset & Interests:
1) Genuinely excited by the intersection of games, art, engineering, and learning
2) Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and motivated by impact
3) Creative thinker with a playful but disciplined execution style

Skills:
1) Strong communicator and storyteller (written and verbal)
2) Experience with growth marketing, social platforms, or digital products
3) Financial and strategic fluency sufficient to engage investors and partners

Compensation:
1) Meaningful equity stake
2) Performance-based bonus
3) Base salary aligned with early-stage startups (to be set in 3rd round of funding)

CONTENT DEVELOPERS (Part Time, 5-10 hrs per week)
We seek 'builders' (programmers, mechanical engineers, writers, artists or architects) to evolve our libraries of project storylines, functional building blocks, videos, graphics, and lesson presentations.

Responsibilities:
1) Write project storylines
2) Evolve graphics and videos
3) Develop and document mechanical mechanisms and software subroutines
4) Document and manage projects

Qualities:
1) Interest in computer games, art, engineering and kids.
2) Playful spirit.
3) Multimedia design
4) Building and/or programming experience

Compensation:
$15 - $20 / hr. (+ bonuses based on meeting targets)

OPERATIONS MANAGER (Part time to full time)
We seek an operations manager to run the day to day business.

Responsibilities:
1) Recruit, train and manage onsite and online workshop leaders
2) Manage customer relationships
3) Invoice customers
4) Send weekly webcast agendas
5) Document results
6) Update website, Facebook page, and YouTube channel
7) Update lesson plans
8) Manage supplies
9) Manage customer database
10) Coordinate the development of regional territories.

Qualities:
1) Interest in computer games, art and engineering.
2) Strong writing and communication skills.
3) Strong organizational skills / quick to respond
4) Experience with social media tools and viral marketing programs.
5) Entrepreneurial mindset ... to work for significant rewards based on success.
6) Playful spirit.

Compensation:
1) Meaningful equity stake
2) Performance-based bonus
3) Base salary aligned with early-stage startups (to be set in 3rd round of funding)

PLATFORM / MULTI-MEDIA DEVELOPER (Part Time, 5-10 hrs per week)
We seek a platform and multimedia developer to evolve our web presence, and in particular, Invention Universe, a computer game-like environment for playful inventors.

Invention Universe enables members to customize a planet, post projects, create a personal bio, explore the universe of planets and collaborate with other builders.

Responsibilities:
1) Design the system architecture.
2) Code (HTML5, CSS, Javascript, React, AWS, MySQL, PHP).
3) Document and manage projects.
4) Direct a team of interns, artists and programmers.

Qualities and skills:
1) Interest in computer games, art, engineering and kids.
2) Playful spirit.
3) Multimedia design
4) Database driven Web application design.

Compensation:
$10 - $20 / hr. (+ bonuses based on meeting targets)