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Director / Co-founder

Turning Basin Labs

Director / Co-founder

Oakland, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    TBL is seeking a full-time Managing Director to lead daily sales, operations, and delivery of our growing cooperative business. After 18 months of bootstrapping with the support of the Irvine Foundation – and sharpening our offering in response to COVID 19 – TBL has placed dozens of vulnerable temporary workers and is poised to place hundreds per year beginning in 2021. We are now seeking an innovative, clear-eyed, and networked executive to drive our next stage of growth. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in placing workers in high-road jobs, advanced knowledge of social enterprises, with a network of relationships across the California workforce system (workers, employers, funders, government).

    Essential

    • People management

    • Financial management

    • Strategy and planning

    • Negotiation

    • Growth strategies

    • Project management

    • Problem solving

    • Deep knowledge of workforce, staffing or innovative labor solutions

    • Experience and networks across the Californian Labor / Workforce system

    Desirable

    • Lived experience relatable to our owners and workers who are primarily immigrants, returning citizens, minorities, women, Veterans, foster youth, etc.

    • Strategic visioning skills

    • Board engagement skills

    • Setting organisational culture

    • Fundraising skills

    Responsibilities

    • Reporting to Executive Chair and Board

    • Supporting business development

    • Supporting engagement with the Board

    • Supporting fundraising and investment efforts

    • Overseeing all worker setup and placement

    • Overseeing all employee setup and contracting

    • Overseeing all partnerships and strategic work

    • Overseeing all hiring, management and growth of our people (ie Learning and Development)

    • Supervising back office activities including Finance, Payroll, IT, and Legal,

    Remuneration

    • Cooperative ownership

    • $90k - $140k OTE ($100k base salary + performance bonus)

    • Benefits

    • Healthcare

    • Based in Bay Area, California