Jobs Reinvented: A Chronicle
The daily chronicles of a few guys (and a stellar team) trying to build a new and more human jobs platform for great companies. We are The Org, a professional community for teams empowering all companies to get ahead by being more transparent.
Build in Public
We’re building in public to share our experience of the hard and imperfect work required to make something. We hope you can relate to the up and down momentum that comes with starting a blank page. Please reach out at any time to share your own experience of building.
Jobs Reinvented
We believe transparency attracts better teammates. Great people want to work with great people.
We’re reinventing the jobs platform with employment software that places open positions directly in your public organizational chart. Companies will be able to use their current all-stars to attract other great people. And applicants will see job descriptions come to life with a visual idea of where they fit and who they’ll work with every day.
Long term we want to completely upend the job discovery and application experience to make it more human.
Day 5
Dylan
Some days just click. Each conversation feels more productive than the last. Meetings end early as people are clearly on the same page. Budgets are approved and jobs offers are accepted. The numbers set records (best week ever and one of the best days ever). Today was one of those days. Let’s build on this and keep moving!
Day 4
Adam:
Team effort! I’ve said that pretty much every day, but that was exemplified today by my colleague Ditte who was John Stockton (NBA all-time assist leader) with the assist. She set me up with an awesome engaged company we work with, and the rest was cake. People get what we’re building. There is push back, but they see the value and how it’s an evolution of job posts. Now we just have to get people to not only get it but use it…!
Dylan:
Interviewing is one of my favorite things to do. The prospect of growing our incredible team is incredibly exciting and I typically cannot wait to evangelize every single potential candidate. Today was no different. I conducted seven interviews with seven uniquely wonderful people and am eager to introduce a few to my teammates. Hopefully at least one person makes it on to join our team and help us do this.
Day 3
Andrew:
Hi there. I’m Andrew, The Product Designer working on jobs.
This blog may only be three days old, but here in the deepest depths of product design, we’ve been working on the jobs platform for over a month. My goal is to make it incredibly easy for you to create and publish jobs to The Org. Today I’m making the final touches to the design mock-ups for the very first version of the jobs platform. Next up is a final review and handover to our talented developers. Stay tuned; there’s a lot more to come.
Adam:
Sometimes you forget to think about exactly how something will actually work. I was guilty of that today. To make sure I understood the logistics of how some elements of jobs will work for users I connected with our engineering team (by team I mean our awesome CTO Andreas). In case you’re wondering, things are going to work seamlessly! After that it was time to start spreading the word again. One more company confirmed for our jobs beta.
Day 2
Dylan
‘Coolness’ is important in a new product. As our product and engineering teams work hard to build the landing pages and core functionality, we need to prepare the cool. Which is why I focused on hiring today. I’m searching for creative talent and paid ads expertise and was lucky to receive a few referrals! One day our coolest jobs list will be as lauded and exclusive at the Time 100. Wish us luck:)
Adam
I think it’s technically day three but we had a lot of meetings on Monday so let’s call it day two. For the launch to go right we need everyone to be aligned. Product, Design, Marketing, Content, Operations… This meant a lot of planning and coordination today. For things to go right we also need execution. That entails many things but first we need companies excited about jobs on The Org. We found three excited companies today.
Day 1
Alex
I’m trying to put something together asap, but I have to focus on getting this v1 jobs landing page out today first :)
Adam
The first thought in my head when I woke up today was my excitement to launch jobs. I know that sounds made up and lame but it’s true. With a project this big it’s easy to get ahead of yourself and I try to remember one foot before the other one step at a time. In action today, that was me building a roadmap and creating some marketing material. Piece by piece. Brick by brick.
Dylan
Today marks day one of our journey to build a better jobs platform. 30 days to soft launch. We were able to nail some of the pitch and copy. That feeling of a succinct pitch is fantastic and really lets you know you might have something.
The rest of the time was spent planning content and performance marketing plans. I felt like we accomplished some high impact stuff and I’m feeling the momentum for tomorrow.
Check out some early mockups done by Alex!
Contributors:
We are only four on a much larger team of incredible people at The Org. Everyone is working hard to make this happen.
Adam Bruskin: As the Head of Partnerships at The Org, Adam’s grows engagement with the community of companies on The Org. Before joining The Org, Adam worked at Fat Llama, a peer to peer rental marketplace headquartered in the UK.
Benjamin Ottensten: Benjamin Ottensten is Head of Product at The Org responsible for shipping a product that solves the users’ problems in a delightful way. Before joining The Org, Benjamin was a Product Designer and Frontend Developer at GoMore, a Danish ride-sharing and peer-to-peer car rental company.
Alexander Juhl Bendt: Alexander is the Head of Design at The Org. Previously, Alexander was the Head of Product Design at Undo Insurance and Rainmaking Venture Studio and as Art Director at digital design agency In2media.
Andrew Denty: Andrew is a Senior Product Designer at The Org. Before joining The Org, Andrew worked at Airtame, a Danish tech startup providing wireless screen sharing for schools and businesses. He also worked at Redgate in Cambridge, UK where he designed tools for Microsoft SQL Server Developers.
Dylan Enright: Dylan is the VP of Growth at The Org, responsible for sharing The Org more broadly and keeping users happy. Before The Org, Dylan was National Finance Director for Andrew Yang and Founding Partner of Wefunder, America’s largest startup investing platform.
