Work with Me at New Public
We are hiring a Software Engineer to work on Public Spaces Incubator.
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We are hiring a software engineer to work with me on Public Spaces Incubator at New Public.
Public Spaces Incubator is a collaboration with a group of public service media orgs across Europe and North America to create a publicly-owned, public-interest online platform that is designed to help people with different worldviews understand each other and work well together.
It’s famously hard to bootstrap a new social product (network effects and all that), but our partners have the credibility to make this a high status space, and the power to direct the attention of millions of people, so I think we have a decent chance.
We’ve built a prototype system that people are pretty excited about, and now it’s time to turn it into a real high quality product.
We are particularly interested in hiring someone with experience is shipping social products, an ability to work anywhere in the stack, and a deep interest in finding ways to help people who see the world differently understand each other and work productively together.
Apply to the job listing here and feel free to ask questions about it in the comments of this blog post.
Have you talked with anyone at the Braver Angels organization about this plan or the job opening? It seems like a mission closely aligned with their values and their membership might be a good pool of people in which to search for a candidate.