We’re hiring!

David Vandegrift
4Degrees
Published in
3 min readNov 18, 2019

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Things are going really well at 4Degrees and it’s time to expand the team again! We have 4 open roles that we’re looking to hire as soon as we can:

  • Head of Marketing
  • Sales Development Representative
  • Mobile Engineer
  • Implementation Engineer

If you are a talented individual interested in the promise of technology to greatly improve how we build and manage professional relationships, we would love to hear from you!

A bit about us

We’re a fast­-moving startup with a vision to empower all professionals by helping them build better relationships. Our goal is to fix the network gap: the inequality of opportunity driven by not having the right connections. To solve this problem, we’re combining the best practices of the world’s top relationship builders with artificial intelligence.

We’re building a mission­-driven team that strives to live out our values every day:

  1. Customer­-centricity
  2. Diversity of perspective
  3. Authenticity
  4. Growth (individual and collective)
  5. Impact

We’re an ambitious, driven team and we push ourselves to accomplish a lot quickly. In the past two years, we’ve been accepted to and graduated from one of the world’s top accelerators, raised a round of venture financing from world class investors, launched our product, rapidly grown our customer base, and architected a robust set of machine learning models as a core source of competitive advantage. In the process, we’ve been named one of Chicago’s top 50 startups to watch — and we plan on giving the world even more to watch in year 3 and beyond!

About the roles

Head of Marketing — full description

We’re looking for a talented head of marketing to help us continue to rapidly scale 4Degrees. Your core objective will be to develop, implement and refine our demand generation strategy across channels — with the goal of rapidly growing qualified lead volume to scale the business. To do this, you’ll be building our lead generation playbook from scratch — experimenting with and assessing growth channels for top-of-funnel volume and conversions, and working to scale the successful ones. You’ll also help us grow our public presence through the creation and execution of content marketing strategies that help prospects understand the benefits of working with us.

Sales Development Representative — full description

We’re looking for a talented, entrepreneurial sales development representative to help us continue to rapidly scale 4Degrees. Your core objective will be to connect and nurture prospects in our target industries, and transition that engagement into sales conversations and demos. As the first SDR, you’ll be building and executing our sales development playbook from scratch alongside our CEO. You’ll be researching target prospects, engaging them across multiple channels (email, social media, phone), testing and iterating on messaging and timing, and helping to scale the ones that generate the best results.

Mobile Engineer — full description

We’re looking for an experienced mobile engineer to help build the 4Degrees app across a variety of platforms. You’ll develop and use a versatile set of skills: use React Native to improve our native mobile app, use Javascript to improve our Chrome extension and Outlook add-in experiences, and coordinate with the back-end and data layers.

Implementation Engineer — full description

We’re looking for an experienced back-end / data engineer to help build the core 4Degrees platform. You’ll develop and use a versatile set of skills: customer interaction to understand implementation requirements, data mapping and architecture to transition customers to our platform, and solid Python skills to perform uploads and productize implementation tools.

How to apply

Send over a quick note with your resume, links to project examples, and thoughts on why this role is exciting to you to talent@4degrees.ai. Our values are critical to us; in your email, please also talk a bit about how these values resonate with you.

This is an on-­site position in Chicago, IL.

The only way we’ll bridge the network gap is if our team represents all of the backgrounds and perspectives of those it impacts. We care deeply about adding people that contribute to our team from across all races, ethnicities, religions, ages, sexual orientations, genders, sexes, countries of origin, and more.

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David Vandegrift
4Degrees

Founder/CTO @ 4Degrees, former venture capitalist, D&I advocate, lots of AI