Careers

• Coach entrepreneurs on specific topics related to business strategy, fundraising, marketing, and business operations
• Encourage, support, and guide entrepreneurs through IFundWomen’s offerings to best meet their startup and funding goals.
• Host workshops, webinars, and educational sessions to educate entrepreneurs on the basics of startup funding and growing your business.
• Represent IFundWomen at industry conferences, on panels, leading workshops, running pitch competitions, and generally encouraging the use of IFundWomen’s products and services. 
• Exchange ideas/data/feedback with other departments (product, marketing, top management) in order to present results and make our products best in class.

• Must have a background in the startup ecosystem, either as a Founder, or someone who has worked at an accelerator, an incubator, a venture capital firm, or a financial institution within the startup funding landscape
• Must have the ability to take a holistic view of the startup funding landscape and how we can grow our coaching program to consistently exceed the needs of our entrepreneurs 
• Must have experience with crowdfunding, as a user and as a funder.
• Must be super-connected in the entrepreneurship space
• Must love coaching and mentoring entrepreneurs!
• Must love public speaking, teaching workshops, meeting new people, empowering entrepreneurs. 
• Must be a digital native, and very comfortable using the following: Google Apps, Slack, Pipedrive, other web apps. 
• A team-player attitude, and excitement about working at a startup. 
• Outstanding cross-group collaboration, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication, problem-solving, and presentation skills are required. 
• Must be able to come to New York Headquarters at least quarterly for team offsites.
• Be able to work independently and remotely. 

• Has experience starting up a business or side hustle
• Deep level of influence in the startup ecosystem
• Access and memberships to coworking and community spaces

• 3+ years of Product Management experience on a Crowdfunding product
• 5+ years of Product Management experience owning the end to end process of scoping and launching new features and improvements while working closely with department heads of Engineering, Marketing, Design, Research, Sales, Legal, etc.
• Ability to identify and present a roadmap to a variety of stakeholders in a concise and compelling manner
• Ability to explain decision-making factors: short versus long-term, when to scale
• Ability to work independently while knowing when to escalate customer issues and work roadblocks to the appropriate team(s)
• Ability to understand complex issues, and define a phased approach to working backwards and solve problems and escalate to senior management if you need support.
• Ability to work collaboratively, and with curiosity, with department heads to pivot roadmap and address customer / business issues

• Contribute to the creation and definition of the overarching strategy of the IFW Crowdfunding product suite
• Increase market opportunity through defining and creating the roadmap for crowdfunding-specific products, while providing input to the product roadmap, and improving data quality
• Define and lead end-to-end platform and product releases
• Increase profit margins and user experience of the products you work on
• Collaborate closely with our users and customer success to deeply understand and address user needs & strengthen the IFW relationship to customer data in order to lead data-driven decisions
• Manage a group of Product Managers and interns

• Experience in working on scaling crowdfunding products that have found product-market fit
• Has experience owning data and research deep-dives
• Has experience mentoring or managing employees
• Has business and / or technical acumen
• Solid communicator, and can communicate regular product updates to company

Masters in Business Administration, Strategic Design Thinking & Management, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field, Technical experience in Python, R, SQL, Java to aid in data analysis and automating scripts for quick-build MVPs or internal admin projects, Certificates, Coursework or demonstrated experience in Human Computer Interaction, UI/UX, Data Science, Strategic Design

• Work with the Product Management team to implement new features and capabilities for our primary Drupal-based infrastructure for Online Fundraising and Professional Coaching.
• Implement enhancements and bug fixes along with regular updates to make sure our Drupal platform is up to date with the highest industry standards to serve our customers and requirements of modern web standards
• Enhance our integrations with external ecosystems vital for our business. This includes popular payment systems like PayPal & Stripe and mobile payment systems like Apple Pay and Google Pay. This would also include integrations with various analytics, data pipeline, and business intelligence tools.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, sales, marketing, and customer success teams to maintain an optimal experience for our customers
• Provide thought leadership and help formulate a future vision for our Drupal infrastructure and help mentor junior engineers.

• 5+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer
  3+ years, full-stack experience building sites based on the Drupal 8 (at least) platform using the eCommerce platform with checkout.
  3+ years experience working with the PHP/Drupal toolchain including drush and docksal
• Experience working with databases, relational databases with SQL and NoSQL.
• Experience hosting Drupal sites on various cloud platforms, especially Pantheon. Experience with hosting Drupal on other cloud platforms e.g. Google Cloud and AWS would be a huge advantage.
• Experience working with and customizing ReactJS based themes for Drupal, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS.
• Experience working with integrate payment systems with Drupal e.g. PayPal and Stripe.

• Have experience building a Drupal-based product from the ground up with customizations to meet specific business needs.
• Ability to follow well-established development processes and systems, employing Agile development methodologies.
• Have extensive experience working with payment systems and their subscription models as they integrate with Drupal.
• Have experience with Drupal APIs and Drupal headless mode to extend and integrate it with other systems and infrastructure.
• Ability to design and test for optimal customer experience for cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device environments.

• 5+ years of Product Management experience owning the end-to-end process of scoping and launching new features and improvements while working closely with department heads of Engineering, Marketing, Design, Research, Sales, Legal, etc. 
• Ability to identify and present a roadmap to a variety of stakeholders in a concise and compelling manner
• Ability to explain decision-making factors: short versus long-term, when to scale 
• Ability to work independently while knowing when to escalate customer issues and work roadblocks to the appropriate team(s)
• Ability to understand complex issues, and define a phased approach to working backward and solve problems and escalate to senior management if you need support.
• Ability to work collaboratively, and with curiosity, with department heads to pivot roadmap and address customer/business issues

• Contribute to the creation and definition of the overarching strategy of the IFW product suite.
• Increase market opportunity through defining and creating the roadmap for specific products, while providing input to the product roadmap, and improving data quality
• Define and lead end-to-end platform and product releases.
• Increase profit margins and user experience of the products you work on
• Collaborate closely with our users and customer success to deeply understand and address user needs & strengthen the IFW relationship to customer data in order to lead data-driven decisions
• Manage a group of Product Managers and interns

• Experience in working on scaling products that have found product-market fit
• Has experience owning data and research deep-dives 
• Has experience mentoring or managing employees 
• Has business and/or technical acumen
• Solid communicator, and can communicate regular product updates to the company 

Masters in Business Administration, Strategic Design Thinking & Management, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field, Technical experience in Python, R, SQL, Java to aid in data analysis and automating scripts for quick-build MVPs or internal admin projects, Certificates, Coursework or demonstrated experience in Human-Computer Interaction, UI/UX, Data Science, Strategic Design.

• Manage Human Resources function for a ~30 person company, and further define IFundWomen’s talent retention strategy
• Own and streamlined onboarding process of new hires
• Create and maintain employee handbook and standards & practices 
• Responsible for all stages of the employee onboarding, orientation, and exit process
• Oversee payroll, benefits, all employee training, retention, and performance management programs
• Work with IFundWomen’s Executive Team to identify, define, and implement HR programs that address the needs of the organization
• Partner with Executive Team to design and build organizational capability to deliver against IFW’s strategic goals and objectives
• Utilize a data-driven approach to identify trends and recommend proactive solutions for employee performance, retention, and engagement
• Coach Executives/senior managers toward empathetic, goal-oriented, and results-driven leadership
• Oversee the communication of HR policies, procedures, and practices to ensure sound leadership application and legal compliance
• Act as an advocate for, and resource to, employees to ensure that employee perspectives are heard and considered
• Stay informed of federal, state, and agency compliance matters and serve as an expert in state and federal labor law compliance in all locations in which IFundWomen operates

• 5-10 years of progressive leadership experience in Human Resources positions, at recognizable brands, including experience in high growth companies
• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, business, or a related field
• PHR or SPHR certification 
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated expertise in assessing organization trends and implementing HR solutions
• Broad knowledge and experience in employment law, compensation, organizational development, employee relations, and training and development
• Experience in the administration of benefits and compensation programs and other Human Resources programs
• Proven ability to influence and drive change with executive teams
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Must be extremely solutions-oriented and comfortable working in a start-up type environment.
• Next-level execution: from concept to implementation, you can stand up first-class HR programs that can scale with a rapidly growing business

• Has worked in the startup financing ecosystem either at a bank or at a VC
• Has experience starting up a business or side project
• Deep level of influence in the startup ecosystem
• Access and memberships to coworking and community spaces