SpeakerText is hiring people to work out of our new San Francisco HQ. Backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, we’re a rapidly growing tech & digital media startup with paying customers and a real business model.
The Job: Hustler (Entry-Level)
Designed for recent graduates who posses a large amount of raw talent and ambition, the entry-level hustler position requires strong people skills, extreme web savvy, detail orientation and a JFDI attitude.
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll spend most of your time either in front of a computer or on the phone alongside to the CEO and the engineering team, participating in the early growth phase of a hot technology company a la The Social Network. Here’s a rough breakdown of how you can expect to spend your time:
30% Talking with existing customers
30% Figuring out ways to acquire new customers
30% Fetching coffee & random office tasks
10% Plotting world domination
Hustling isn’t a job, it’s a state of mind. Whether you want to start your own company one day (which we encourage) or not, being part of Team SpeakerText means embracing the JFDI spirit. We will empower you to get things done, and won’t always give you a ton of direction as to how. You will be held accountable for the results and rewarded accordingly.
Compensation includes a living wage, healthcare, and stock options.
CEO’s note: If you’re non-technical and want to start an internet company some day, this is the perfect job. In fact, this is the job I wish I had when I first graduated from college, had trained to be a journo, was sure I wanted to start something but hadn’t the faintest clue about where to begin.
Expect to learn the following within the first 18 months:
How to think strategically about making money on the internet
How to talk to customers
Basics of entrepreneurial finance, including raising venture capital
How to run an online marketing campaign, including how to use MailChimp & the Twitters
The Company: SpeakerText
SpeakerText is a video transcription platform powered by a virtual factory. Our core technology is a semi-automated assembly line system that combines artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor to turn video into text. Crazy as it sounds, the humans are slowly teaching the machines to become smarter (one of the co-founders is a Carnegie Mellon artificial intelligence researcher) and thereby working themselves out of a job.
The upside of all this technology is that SpeakerText not only makes video accessible and searchable (leading to more eyeballs and thus money), but it also enables sundry applications like this one that lets you share video quotes that link back to that exact moment inside the video.
Company culture is something we care a lot about. We hire really smart, really hardcore people who like to have fun (e.x. our CEO is a Columbia grad & NAHJ alum who dropped out of college twice to work on an ambulance in East LA, then fight forest fires in Alaska).
If interested:
Visit http://speakertext.com and check out what we do.
Email thehustler@speakertext.com with links to your online resume & web presence, include a brief, non-generic spiel about why you think this might be the gig for you.
SpeakerText is an equal-opportunity, work-hard, party-hard employer.