<aside> 🛑 Update, March 26, 2024: We’ve filled this role. Thank you to everyone who applied!

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About the Recurse Center

Our mission is to transform lives by helping people direct themselves.

We do this by running retreats where curious programmers come to recharge and grow. Programmers of all stripes work alongside each other for six or 12-weeks of self-directed growth, exploration, and programming.

Since 2011, more than 2,500 people from nearly 200 cities around the globe have participated in our retreats. People routinely describe their time here as among the most productive, educational, and transformative periods of their lives.

Our retreats take place both in-person (at our hub in Brooklyn) and online (in Virtual RC), with most participants spending at least some of their batches in person. After their retreats, participants become life-long members of our alumni community.

We also run a recruiting agency. This provides another benefit (lifelong career services) to joining our retreats and allows us to keep our retreats for free to all participants. We recruit for a range of companies on a contingency basis, with a focus on US-based early-stage startups and technology-focused finance firms. Companies pay us a referral fee when they hire candidates we help them hire.

The retreat is our recruiting advantage: We get to know our alums over the course of months and years, which lets us get under their resumes to find great matches employers otherwise wouldn't for their open roles, and provide a valuable service to our alums.

About this role

This role has two parts: First, you’ll play a key part of running our retreats by keeping our hub in Brooklyn warm, welcoming, and humming along. Second, you’ll ensure smooth operations by doing essential administrative work.

What you’ll do

Keep our hub warm, welcoming, and humming along.

• Handle food and facilities setup for presentations and events (end of batch celebrations, game nights, etc)
• Be an ongoing, warm presence at the hub. Welcome new Recursers, help them get settled, assign key fobs, create signage, and do whatever else needed to make the space accessible and useful
• Manage mail, deliveries, and Amazon orders to make sure everything is well-stocked
• Manage and resolve facilities issues by liaising with contractors and building management
• Host occasional events
• Take out the trash and tidy up throughout the day (don’t worry, we have a daily cleaner)

Do essential operational & administrative work

• Answer emails from prospective applicants, vendors, etc