Since 2010, Piazza has grown into one of the world’s largest learning platforms, with over a million course enrollments per year. Quite simply, we have changed the way students and professors collaborate outside the classroom. We’re now revolutionizing college recruiting by connecting the most innovative companies (Palantir, Square, Yelp, and many more) directly with our students using the Piazza platform. Our disruptive potential, both in recruiting and education technologies, has garnered widespread press, including features in Forbes, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
At Piazza you’ll get all the usual benefits of working at one of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups: sterling investors (Khosla, Sequoia, Bessemer), great perks (free food, free laundry, weekly ultimate frisbee), an awesome location (the heart of downtown Palo Alto), and talented and passionate co-workers. You’ll get something more, though. When you join Piazza, you’re helping to make the lives of millions of college students better. You’re transforming the way students do their coursework by enabling them to get unstuck anytime, anywhere. And you’re creating opportunities for students to discover the right companies at which to start their careers.
If you’re looking to work at a company with an incredible product, inspiring leaders and teammates, passionate users, and a deep mission to change the world of education, we’d love to hear from you.
At the core, here's what describes you:
- Always love to learn. You seek feedback. You do not get defensive with feedback. You appreciate the substance behind the feedback and are eager to learn and grow from it. You find nothing wrong with giving others feedback because it comes from a genuine spot of wanting to see them grow too.
- An overall happy + optimistic soul, can enjoy a good laugh with the team, and give back to the positive environment. We're a very positive team, and we like to encourage one another to give it our best. We expect the same of anyone new who joins the team.
- Awesome support skills (you will be tested for this rigorously). We've grown thanks to paying tons of attention to the people we serve and want to bring on additional folks who have deep empathy for them. You need to believe that whoever you're enabling is always right, and if we caused them any frustration through a poor user experience — well, then that's our fault and we need to address it.
- You love doing whatever it takes to enable those you're supporting to run as quickly as possible – and you feel fulfilled and energized watching the fruits of that partnership unfold and the impact it has on the company and mission.
- In the constant quest to learn and grow, you have 0 sense of entitlement -- you will be asked to come in and do anything and everything. There are no defined roles, you'll be put on whatever task is the most important to move the business forward, and you embrace that, because it's an opportunity to see all parts of how a startup operates.
If this sounds like you, drop us a note. The more thoughtful your note can be on why the above points describe you well, the more likely you are to hear back asap -- because, if this is indeed you, we can't wait to have you start!
Bonus points if you can speak to an experience in your life that has shaped you to be who you are today -- we're looking for folks who've experienced hardship, and grown through it -- because that's how we know you can survive when we throw you into the deep end.