About Pioneer

Pioneer today is two people: Daniel Gross and Rishi Narang. We're also supported by an amazing team of part-time contributors and experts.

So far, Pioneer is proudly funded by Stripe and Marc Andreessen. We will likely raise money from other investors over time.

We’re experienced engineers dedicated to finding and supporting the next great set of scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and civic activists. You can read more about Pioneer here:

• Introducing Pioneer
• This Startup Uncovers The World's Hidden Geniuses To Solve Global Problems — Forbes
• This Startup Thinks It Can Solve Global Inequality With...a Video Game? — Inc.
• How Daniel Gross's Pioneer Tournament proves that talent is everywhere — Ventureburn
• Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.’ Please Apply. — The New York Times

Interested in helping us find the innovators of the future? We're hiring!

Business Operations

Pioneer is a global organization. We’re looking for someone to help us manage and drive various operational elements of our mission. You’ll be tackling issues like remittance (paying a large amount of people around the world at scale), travel (organizing the Pioneer Summit) and many other logistical challenges. Whatever it is, you’ll be working on what will move the needle most for Pioneer. You should care about results, not activity, and have fun doing it.

If you like hard problems, are analytical, and are an amazing teammate, we want to talk to you.

• You enjoy doing whatever it takes to execute on complex projects.
• You have 3+ years of experience doing something strategically complex.
• You have a knack for working well with a wide range of people.
• You have experience in product or project management, taking projects from conception to launch.
• You have a process-oriented mindset and ability to execute.
• You excel in analytics and problem solving.

These aren’t hard requirements, but just the flavor of what we’re looking for. Email jobs+ops@pioneer.app with your resume and a short description of why you want to work at Pioneer.

Software Engineer

In the short term many of our technical challenges are equal parts computer science and psychology. How do you build a product that can identify talent? How do you then motivate people to become the best version of themselves? If you were building the Harvard campus, but entirely online, could you make it work?

It requires great intuition and solid engineering. We work in Python, Ruby and Javascript.

• You have experience building websites or apps end-to-end. If you don’t have corporate experience, we’ll be looking to see some other form of work (for example, lots of Github projects).
• You can build products end-to-end and manage your own schedule.
• You have good instincts around what makes a compelling user experience.
• You excel in analytics and problem solving.
• Bonus: you have experience in data science or machine learning.

These aren’t hard requirements, but just the flavor of what we’re looking for. Email jobs+eng@pioneer.app with your resume and a short description of why you want to work at Pioneer.

Game Designer

We're inspired by the motivational attributes of video games. We'd like to use that power to make Pioneers more productive and happy.

We're looking for someone who can code and has experience designing gaming systems. We work in Python, Ruby and Javascript.

• You have experience designing video games, leaderboards, point systems or other motivational products.
• You can code.
• You can build products end-to-end and manage your own schedule.
• You have good instincts around what makes a compelling user experience.
• You excel in analytics and problem solving.

These aren’t hard requirements, but just the flavor of what we’re looking for. Email jobs+gamedesign@pioneer.app with your resume and a short description of why you want to work at Pioneer.