Junior Account Manager, Free Agency
Contract-to-Hire
$60-80k
+ Equity
Talent agency for the tech industry
Job no longer available
Talent agency for the tech industry
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$60-80k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower people to reach the highest levels of their career potential.
Role
Who you are
- You should either already be familiar with or curious about the tech industry
- Knowledge about startups and technology, including the VCs, founders, and power players within, plays an instrumental role in how we provide differentiated service to our Free Agents
- Be highly motivated by working in a startup environment. It's not for everyone
- Have superb written communication skills, as you'll be writing directly to VIP clients
- Keep self-organized, as there's a lot that goes on in servicing clients at Free Agency
What the job involves
- You'll learn the ins-and-outs of how we work with our clients, then support others in servicing them excellently. Sometimes, that'll include deep industry and subject matter research in the tech and startup sphere
- At other times, you'll put together company dossiers, edit copywriting related to their careers, manage tasks and projects related to job search automation, and generally serve as-needed to enable our clients to land stellar jobs
- Manage tasks, projects, deadlines, working cross-functionally and with automation tools like Pipefy, Airtable, Notion, and AirOps to ensure rugged and robust client service
- Do specific and thorough research to craft preparatory materials for our clients with an eye for novel information -- as we like to say, what's "beyond page 4" of the Google search
- Learn all about tech, client services, operations -- we want you to be constantly improving, even outside the training, materials, and instructions we hand you
Our take
Free Agency is a talent agency startup offering career support and services to employees in the tech sector. In the spirit of entertainment and sports agents, Free Agency currently helps negotiate and manage a client’s career change, in exchange for 5-10% of their first year’s salary. The company's longer-term plan, however, is to become more deeply involved with its clients’ skill cultivation and career strategy.
The company is betting that workers in high demand for lucrative, incentive-rich positions will be inclined to opt for advocacy and industry expertise, much like star talent does in other industries. It represents a drastic reimagining of the job market, but with so much money on the table for tech sector employees, it's possible that some players will want help navigating it.
The demand for tech workers, however, may prove something of a double-edged sword: those with a wealth of options may deem it unnecessary to shell out for an agent if they are already being courted by attractive companies. Free Agency does enjoy investor confidence from the likes of Bloomberg BETA and Ludlow - and the company is still relatively young, having been founded in 2019, so its development in the talent space will be one to watch.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$10m
EARLY VC
Jan 2020
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $15.4m
Company benefits
- You'll get to own and join initiatives immediately
- 100% medical, dental, vision
- Weekly team lunch, wellness events, and an overly stocked kitchen
- Employee ownership via equity
- Learn and network within tech - we're a startup about other startups.
- Generous time-off policy and company-wide recharge weeks
Company HQ
Two Bridges, New York, NY
Leadership
Sherveen Mashayekhi
(CEO)Worked in Business Development at Bounce Exchanged, and co-founded JobHero. Was Head of Product at Stella.ai.
Alex Rothberg
(CTO)Studied Computer Science and Economics at MIT before co-founding WebNotes (now Crocodoc). Was VP of Engineering at CompIQ.
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