Ops
DC Field Sales Associate
Empower is looking to immediately hire field sales associates in Washington DC. Field sales associates are responsible for signing up as many drivers as possible! They will be expected to be in the field at either Dulles or DCA every day, pitching and signing up Uber and Lyft drivers, most of whom hate Uber and Lyft!
About you:
- You love sales
- You are an extrovert and enjoy talking to new people from diverse backgrounds and forming new relationships
- You are energetic, upbeat, and personable
- You are self-aware, honest and have integrity
- You are an excellent communicator
- Compensation (we expect Field Sales Associates to earn $100,000+ a year):
- Hourly ($7.50/hr) + commission + equity
- Benefits for full-time (30 hrs/wk minimum)
Ops
NY Field Operations Associate
Empower is hiring NYC FIeld Operations Associates to help accelerate our rapid growth and transform the gig economy so that hard-working drivers can earn a sustainable living. As a Field Operations Associate, you’ll be responsible for creating, planning, staffing, and ensuring the success of NYC marketing events at bars, clubs, universities, and other venues to sign up riders and increase rider engagement. In other words, you’ll be paid to throw parties and make friends! So, if you want to have a ton of fun while being a part of a fast-growing, mission-driven company that cares about making a difference for gig economy workers and empowering communities, we’d love to hear from you.
Principal responsibilities include:
- Create, plan, staff, and ensure the success of NYC marketing events at bars, clubs, universities, and other venues to acquire riders and increase rider engagement
- Quickly build productive and active partnerships with venues, promoters, social groups, student groups, and other organizations
- Promote and help build Empower’s brand everywhere you go
About you:
- You are an extrovert and love talking to people and forming new relationships
- You thrive in a party atmosphere
- You are a builder
- You are detail-oriented and well organized
- You are a high-energy, problem-solver with an exceptional work ethic
- You take ownership and personal responsibility and will run through walls to succeed
- You are self-aware, honest and have integrity
- You are an excellent communicator and team player
- You enjoy selling
- You have 0-3 years experience
Compensation
- Base Salary: $60,000
- Annual Performance Bonus: Up to 100% of base salary
- Meaningful equity
- Benefits: Health, dental, vision, 401(k)
Ops
NY Field Sales Associate
Empower is looking to immediately hire field sales associates in New York City. Field sales associates are responsible for signing up as many drivers as possible! They will be expected to be in the field at either LGA or JFK every day, pitching and signing up Uber and Lyft drivers who are looking for a better path forward!
Responsibilities: Sign up as many drivers as possible!
About you:
- You love sales
- You are an extrovert and enjoy talking to new people from diverse backgrounds and forming new relationships
- You are energetic, upbeat, and personable
- You are self-aware, honest and have integrity
- You are an excellent communicator
Compensation (we expect Field Sales Associates to earn $100,000+ a year):
- Hourly ($15.00/hr) + commission + equity
- Benefits for full-time (30 hrs/wk minimum)
Ops
NY General Manager
Empower is looking to immediately hire a General Manager to lead NYC operations. This is an opportunity to lead operations for the largest U.S. market. The NYC GM will be responsible for rider and driver acquisition, retention and engagement. This position will report directly to the CEO.
Empower is on a mission to transform the gig economy, so that hard-working people can earn a sustainable living. If you want to be a huge part of a fast-growing, mission-driven company that cares about making a difference for gig economy workers and truly empowering all market participants then we’d like to hear from you. This is a position for someone who wants to put their stamp on something and make their mark in a big way.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Lead and implement a comprehensive plan for rider acquisition in NYC
- Lead the execution of driver acquisition, retention and engagement strategy in NYC
- Quickly hire, train, and lead the NYC operations team in the field
- Quickly build relationships with venues, promoters, social groups, student groups, etc.
- Create, plan, staff, oversee and ensure the success of marketing events
- Monitor the NYC marketplace to ensure marketplace balance and growth
- Use data-driven decision-making and pour everything you have into the Company and your team to drive superior results
About you:
- You are a builder and a winner who refuses to fail
- You are a detail-oriented, high-energy, driven problem-solver and self-starter with an exceptional work ethic and a desire to be a part of and help lead a team disrupting the status quo
- You take ownership and personal responsibility and will run through walls to accomplish the mission
- You are an extrovert and enjoy talking to people and forming as many new relationships as possible
- You are self-aware, honest and have integrity
- You love to get your hands dirty and want to do all of the things you ask of your team
- You are looking to put your stamp on something and will treat NYC like it’s your baby
- You are an excellent communicator
- You are a team player and a leader & don’t care who gets the credit so long as the team succeeds
- **Required Skills / Experience “
- You are very familiar with NYC and live in Manhattan or the Bronx**
- 3+ years of professional political, campaign, event planning, organizing or startup experience
- Meaningful “ground game” and “in the field” professional experience
- Familiarity with or ability to quickly adopt comms and planning tools like Slack, G-Suite, etc.
- Ability and desire to regularly work nights and weekends in connection with events in order to grow Empower as quickly as possible
- 3-8 years experience
Helpful experience:
- Launching and quickly growing a consumer facing marketplace
- Experience hiring and managing a small field team
- Experience creating social media content
- Experience bootstrapping a startup
Compensation:
- Base Salary of $100,000-$150,000
- Annual performance based bonus of up to 100% of base salary
- Meaningful equity
- Benefits package that includes health, dental, vision and 401(k)
Engineering
Senior iOS Engineer
Empower is seeking a Swift Ninja with 4+ years of mobile app development experience to join our growing team as we prepare to scale nationally.
Strong preference for candidates living in the DC metro area, or who are willing to relocate to DC; however, exceptional remote U.S. based candidates will be considered. Candidates must have an exceptional work ethic, excellent communication skills, and a desire to be part of a team disrupting the status quo.
The person in this role will work directly and extensively with our Head of Mobile, Eduardo Perez. This is an opportunity of a lifetime for an iOS engineer, but working at Empower is demanding and being successful on our team requires that you really love what you do. This role will require a standard work week of 50+ hours, and 60+ hour work weeks will sometimes be necessary.
We work hard, but if you love building amazing software, want to work with a phenomenal team, have the confidence to be a part of a Company disrupting one of the largest companies in the world, have the freedom, flexibility and desire to prioritize your team and your Company and meet the requirements below, then we’d love to chat.
Requirements
- Expertise in Swift
- Experience working at a startup or at a similarly intense environment
- 4+ years of iOS mobile app development experience
- Experience building consumer facing mobile apps for iPhone
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect apps to backend
- Strong knowledge of iOS UI design principles and best practices
- Strong understanding of iOS frameworks and hands on integration of 3rd Party API.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Preferred
- 6+ years of relevant professional experience
- Experience building two-sided online marketplace applications
