Founding Growth Operator - MeritFirst

The role

You will build a growth engine for MeritFirst by identifying job categories, creating candidate assessments, and activating employer demand. You will own the entire operating loop from candidate acquisition to successful hires.

What you will do

• Choose the markets to enter by identifying role categories with employer demand.
• Build relationships with founders, hiring managers, and talent leaders to activate demand.
• Find and activate exceptional people through various communities and channels.
• Work with product teams and experts to turn roles into rigorous assessments.
• Create flagship programs such as competitions, cohorts, and events.
• Turn assessment performance into introductions, interviews, offers, and hires.
• Build a growth flywheel using referrals, case studies, and ambassadors.
• Track and optimize the full funnel from candidate source to retention.
• Identify manual processes to productize into software and repeatable playbooks.

Required qualifications

• High-agency generalist with extreme ownership and urgency.
• Ability to move between strategy, growth, partnerships, recruiting, operations, and storytelling.
• Experience building something from zero.
• Ability to persuade candidates and hiring leaders.
• Strong taste for programs, competitions, events, and experiences.
• Analytically rigorous.
• Comfortable doing unscalable work.
• Ability to write clearly and communicate directly.
• Ability to represent MeritFirst mission with conviction.
• Care about finding exceptional people whom existing systems fail to recognize.

About the company

MeritFirst is building infrastructure to help companies hire based on demonstrated ability rather than pedigree alone. They create objective ways for people to demonstrate critical thinking, problem-solving, adaptability, and execution.