tl;dr

This is a part time engineering leadership and mentorship position with high impact to engineering team members and customers, very low ~$50-$100/month initial pay, and we ask you to refrain from writing code and instead train and enable team members. Are you still interested? If so, please follow the instructions in the interview process section below.

About Us

Join our fast growing, remote, Harvard and Y Combinator backed AI startup and revolutionize how the industry does community building, sales, and conference production with Venu AI!

Learn directly from our founders how to build a great product, a product customers love, a product customers seek you out and pay for, how to lead a team, train and mentor team members, develop team member skillsets, enable and unblock engineers, and mentor and guide team members careers, and how to lead and run your own startup team in the future.

Venu AI is founded by Jeremy Lam, a 10-year CEO, backed by Harvard and YC, helping founders build top of funnel sales, get 40% response rate from qualified sales leads, build a community, and host 100-person conferences in 6 weeks fully automated with Venu AI. Jeremy previously developed a metaverse events platform called Venu, hosted 1000-person conferences with Microsoft, Samsung, Stanford, CNN, and The US White House, founded a VR game development studio, founded a robotics education startup, shipped the Microsoft HoloLens and Xbox One at Microsoft, and graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Have senior level software engineering experience and technical expertise but refrain from writing code as much as possible.

• Fill in the gaps, do training, planning, enablement, unblocking, and people management to maximize the team’s ability to complete tasks and features.

• Be the customer, use the product, build customer empathy in yourself and the team to understand and build solutions to solve customer pain points.

• Mentor individual team members in weekly 1:1s, drive their career development, do resume reviews and referrals for team members.

• Be a passionate, proactive team player, a good communicator, bring a positive energy to the team, and help team members to enable others to be successful, happy, and fulfilled on the team

• Anyone can take this position as long as you show up every day, do the work, and you're passionate about solving these problems, helping the team, and gaining experience.

Compensation

• Initial compensation is very low ~$50-$100/month.

• Maximum time commitment is 5 hours a week.

Interview Instructions

1. Find any B2B SaaS startup CEO. Find their LinkedIn and company website.
2. Using information from their LinkedIn and company website, fill out the fields within the brackets < > in the email template below. Do not change the template.
3. Review and revise your own email. Do your fields make sense in the rest of the sentence? Do your fields accurately describe what they do, what they specialize in, what they would want to promote about their company? Do you sound familiar and say their first name and company names the same way they or their colleagues would without sounding too formal and alien?
4. Send the email to jeremy@venu3d.com.
5. Please complete an onboarding call with the AI interviewer here. If the AI interviewer doesn’t work, please skip it.
6. Schedule a call to demo your software engineering projects with Jeremy, ask any questions you have, and receive offer letter.

Email Template

Subject: < first name > Speaking On < 1-2 words summarizing expertise or industry > Panel in SF

Body:

Hey < first name >,

I found your experience in < 2-3 words summarizing what their company does >, and we’d love to invite you to speak and promote < company name > to our community of < their customer persona > on our <1-2 words summarizing their area of expertise or industry > Panel in San Francisco.

This will be a great opportunity to meet < their customer persona > in person, learn about the latest developments in < their industry >, and partner with other founders.

A little about me, I’m Jeremy, CEO of Venu AI, helping founders build top of funnel sales using community building strategies like hosting conferences and podcasts. Founders at Squadify, HiPaaS, and TSC Security love Venu AI because they build self-sustaining top of funnel sales, get 40% response rate, build a community, and host 100-person conferences with their sales leads and partners in 3 months.

Reply yes I'm interested to speak on the panel!

Thanks,

Jeremy