Jobs
Experienced Project Manager
YouNoodle is looking for an experienced project manager to help us implement a new project this summer, similar to http://kofounderlabs.com. You love planning and executing complicated events, and you never lose your cool when things get heated. You will join an experienced team, which means you can learn on the job, but are expected to perform on day one. Fluency (verbal and written) in Korean and English is required.
You will be orchestrating a game-changing entrepreneurial experience in California for 50-80 carefully selected Korean entrepreneurs. With your team, you will be introducing them to experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors, while they are taken through a curriculum of start-up learnings.
You will be the operational lead on everything they do for up to 12 weeks in California, and you will regularly be liaising with our Korean partners in making sure everything runs smoothly and up to the often ambitious YouNoodle standard. You love building community, you are highly service-oriented and love to feel current about the latest trends. Experience working with governments is a plus.
Summer Program Coordinator
YouNoodle is looking for three amazing summer program coordinators to help plan and execute YouNoodle Camp 2012, a month-long summer entrepreneurship program in July. Coordinators will be core YouNoodle team members helping to build a conference that inspires 100 global entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
Be prepared to wear many hats! There are multiple components involved with programming for YouNoodle Camp, and we are looking for a great team of three coordinators with areas of responsibility that include:
- coordinating events and logistics
- assisting lecturers and speakers (think TA)
- working with entrepreneurs to give them resources for their projects
- being a guide for program activities and an unofficial ambassador to all that is fun in the Bay Area!
All coordinators should be great with logistics. You have a positive energy. You are proactive and have a strong intuition about what needs to get done (or what can be done better) with little or no direction. You are excited about working with an international crowd and can listen and find solutions to the needs of the participants. Above all, you love to help people and make sure that they have the best possible experience!
This position will start in early June and last until mid-August. The start and end times are flexible but availability in July is a must! Please visit younoodlecamp.com to learn more about the summer program.
Podium Partnerships Manager
YouNoodle is looking for an awesome partnerships manager to help us spread Podium, our entrepreneurship platform, throughout the world. Podium is used to power competitions, awards, and application processes at universities, incubators and accelerators around the world. We want you to help us make it ubiquitous.
You are an entrepreneur by heart. You probably participated in your college business plan competition - if you didn't, you organized it. You have sold sponsorships before, helped partners/clients succeed, are constantly building community, and you have the persistence to think globally while impacting locally.
You are a natural connector, love to help people and resources find each other. You get a special kick when you find the value proposition that will create synergies for many different parties. You love persuading, you could sell ice to Eskimos, and you are opportunistic. Intensity at work, frequent traveling and networking are on top of your lists for an ideal job. Finally, you are also well organized and have a high capacity to execute, to make things happen fast.
You are driven by a desire to improve the world through entrepreneurship, and success to you is when young ambitious entrepreneurs realize their dreams. You have a genuine curiosity to learn what people are working on. Extrovert, connector, evangelizer, trendsetter are common words people use to describe you.
Automation Testing Intern
YouNoodle is looking for a software testing / QA intern with an emphasis on automation testing. The position involves writing automated scripts, test suites and cases for our exciting web products that are built in PHP.
We are looking for an engineering student or recent graduate to join our tiny but ambitious product team. You will need to have knowledge of PHPUnit or other such php-compatible testing frameworks or tools, along with a basic understanding of web technologies and be well-versed in unit and integration testing and QA best practices. We would love for you to have a critical sense of detail to both functionality and UI.
We are one of the most well-connected startups in the Bay Area, and with us, you will make your name in the startup world. Our South Park office space is fun and chill, the vibe is ambitious but relaxed, and everyone on the team passionately wants to change the world through entrepreneurship.
Working at YouNoodle
YouNoodle is building out the global entrepreneurial grid. We power more than 50 college business plan competitions around the world, and we service tens of thousands young entrepreneurs looking for connections, cash, or creative input.
We started in 2007 with support from Peter Thiel (Facebook) and Max Levchin (PayPal), and have been featured in BBC World News, TechCrunch, BusinessWeek and the New York Times, among many others.
Working at YouNoodle means stellar coworkers, comprehensive health insurance, intellectual challenge, and invaluable coolness.
We are always looking for talented ambitious invididuals to join us, so feel free to drop us a line at careers@younoodle.com.
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