Education is about the future: how do we make the future better than the present, how do we preserve the advances we have made so far, and how do we continue to expand the frontiers of human knowledge and capability?
The highest leverage tactic is to focus on childhood education. That’s what we’re doing at Synthesis. Specifically, our mission is to cultivate a generation of supercollaborators – people who can work together effectively to take on humanity’s most complex and vexing challenges.
We’re looking for people with exceptional intelligence, work ethic, and integrity to join us.
About Synthesis
Co-founder Josh Dahn built Ad Astra school for Elon’s kids at SpaceX. Now, we are scaling the most ambitious ideas from Ad Astra, starting with the most innovative class: Synthesis.
Synthesis teaches kids to collaboratively work with information like adults do. Students ages 6 to 14 meet once a week to form teams and play novel, complex games and simulations, moderated by an adult coach who encourages clear communication and rigorous analytical thinking. And that is just the beginning. We're building "Ender's Game for innovators", a global internet-native academy to accelerate learning for the world's most talented and driven students, those most likely to contribute to leaps in science and engineering that advance human progress.
We’ve grown revenue 5x in a little over a year – and we’d double again if we admitted everyone on our paid reservation list.
Synthesis is a purely remote team who, in addition to Ad Astra, have built Khan Academy, ClassDojo, Facebook, Google, Uber, Roam Research, and Flexport.
The role
We are looking for a product innovator. You'll work closely with our VP Product, cofounders Josh & Chrisman, and cross-functional teams on both zero to one and scaling challenges.
Synthesis is growing very fast and changing rapidly. You should have the desire to embrace the chaos, find problems and solve them. We don’t hire smart people to tell them what to do — we hire them so they can tell us what to do.
The most important skills are the judgment to identify the highest leverage product ideas, and the focus to relentlessly simplify. You should have a reputation as someone who ships.
About you
- 5+ years experience as founder or other high accountability product role.
- Achieved product-market fit with new consumer products.
- Appetite to make bold bets, and the execution skills to de-risk them.
- Relentless drive to improve the product, the team, and yourself through continuous experimentation and feedback loops.
- Strong product intuition and quantitative skills.
- Thrive in resource-constrained environments.
- Move faster than is comfortable — an instigator.
- Articulate storyteller and presenter, both written and verbal.
- Be a fallibilist.
Compensation & benefits
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity (including optional early exercise)
- 100% covered health insurance for you & your dependents (including medical, dental, vision)
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- One-on-one tax advice: To make the most of our competitive equity-based compensation, Synthesis offers Carta Equity and Tax which includes education on the equity portion of your compensation, scenario modeling, and one-on-one tax advice
- Flexible time off
- Flexible parental leave
Some benefits (such as medical and 401k) apply to US employees only.
