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About the Role
MeritFirst is seeking a hands-on Growth Operator to build a system for identifying job categories, attracting exceptional candidates, and turning real work into compelling assessments. This role involves owning the operating loop from role selection and candidate acquisition through programs, employer activation, matching, and placement, with the goal of creating a repeatable growth engine. This is a zero-to-one builder role focused on demonstrating ability rather than pedigree.
Responsibilities
- Identify role categories with meaningful employer demand, large pools of overlooked talent, and objectively demonstrable skills.
- Build relationships with founders, hiring managers, and talent leaders to secure real opportunities.
- Help companies understand how MeritFirst’s signal should inform their hiring decisions.
- Find and activate exceptional people through diverse channels, including communities, referrals, partnerships, content, schools, trade programs, and creators.
- Work with the product team, assessment experts, hiring managers, and practitioners to turn popular roles into rigorous assessments and realistic work challenges.
- Create flagship programs such as competitions, cohorts, showcases, and events that attract ambitious candidates and employer attention.
- Turn strong assessment performance into curated introductions, interviews, offers, and successful hires.
- Understand post-introduction dynamics between candidates and companies.
- Build the growth flywheel by leveraging placements into referrals, case studies, employer advocates, candidate ambassadors, and organic demand.
- Track and optimize the full funnel, including candidate source, assessment completion, qualification, interview, offer, acceptance, retention, employer repeat rate, and candidate experience, focusing on outcomes.
- Identify manual early-stage work that can be productized into software, systems, partnerships, and repeatable operating playbooks.
Requirements
- Evidence of ability to influence people to take action and produce measurable outcomes.
- Unusually high-agency generalist who operates with extreme ownership and a maniacal sense of urgency.
- Ability to move between strategy, growth, partnerships, recruiting, operations, and storytelling.
- Experience building something from zero, not just operating a mature channel or inheriting a playbook.
- Ability to persuade exceptional candidates to bet on a new platform and skeptical hiring leaders to act on new signals.
- Strong taste for programs, competitions, events, and experiences people genuinely want to join.
- Analytically rigorous and willing to eliminate ideas that do not produce interviews and hires.
- Comfortable doing unscalable work before identifying what should become scalable.
- Treat candidate trust and experience as product requirements.
- Clear and direct communication skills.
- Ability to represent MeritFirst’s mission with conviction.
- Deep care for finding exceptional people unrecognized by existing systems.
- Hiring process designed to surface demonstrated ability, not reward pedigree or interview polish.
- Experience moving from a short initial exercise to conversations, deeper role-relevant exercises, and final-round conversations focused on judgment, ownership, and mutual fit.
Skills
- Growth
- Operations
- Partnerships
- Recruiting
- Storytelling
- Strategy
- Assessment design
- Program building
- Event production
- Data analysis
- Productization
- Candidate acquisition
- Employer activation
- Matching
- Placement
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Adaptability
- Execution
- Critical thinking
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Contract
Experience Level
- Builder
- Operator
About the Company
- MeritFirst is building the infrastructure to make objective, efficient ways for people to demonstrate critical thinking, problem-solving, adaptability, and execution the default.
- The company aims to help companies hire based on demonstrated ability rather than pedigree alone, leading to upward mobility for workers, better performance for companies, and national growth at scale.
- MeritFirst believes America is strongest when ability can rise and that better talent allocation is a major source of growth.