At Plexus, we’re making a digital religion alternative.
Highly individual young adults, especially post-college in big cities, often reject existing communities (religions, political parties, small towns, colleges, workplaces) which ask you to conform in order to belong.
Plexus offers the opposite: a radically inclusive online space that helps members belong not in spite, but because, of idiosyncrasy.
At Plexus’ core is Voices: a more intentional alternative to podcasts/music. Whatever’s on your mind, Voices is an app that generates a custom playlist, instantly, of real contactable people speaking about it. We’ve never seen technology inspired faith between strangers like Voices.
Responsibilities
You will...
- Own Voices’ design.
- Engage the Plexus community every week to understand how Voices can create more belonging.
- Co-own Product decisions with Davey: obsessing over details, debating strategy, discussing everything.
Qualifications
You have...
- designed enormously simple projects that have served thousands of people.
- written prolifically about the internet.
- said no to more 10x more design projects than you’ve accepted
Qualities
You…
- are adept at engaging across difference.
- have empathy toward people with whom you vehemently disagree.
- stay up at night thinking about inequality among people, at all scales.
- believe technology has the potential to flatten hierarchy among people.
- distinguish between a meaningful community and an active product audience.
Preferences
You prefer…
- sharing your work with others to keeping it private.
- working on impossible projects to working on possible projects.
- having directed but unbounded responsibility to having strictly defined responsibility.