At Plexus, we’re taking on one of the greatest engineering tasks of the 21st century:

architect an internet community that breaks the 1% rule.

It’s an unprecedented directive. We’ll need to be questioning assumptions and running crazy experiments at every turn. And so, the Inventor will need to be a visionary, empathetic, and creative rule-breaker, running a new experiment every week to help us test hypotheses and break new ground in building the first social network without a feed.

We’ve invented this position so we can invite the smartest person we find to join our team. We couldn’t care less about traditional experience. We just care that you show us new possibilities for online community, consistently find significant ways to help us make life-altering connections routine, and sprint. The following is some detail regarding what the Inventor position could like, but, in contrast to our other positions, the following detail is by no means prescriptive.

Responsibilities

You will…

• Own a new design experiment each week, taking an idea that has the potential to help people make more meaningful connections with each other, then mocking a design, getting feedback from the team and from Plexus users, implementing the design, gathering more feedback, and discussing conclusions with the rest of the team each Monday.
• Participate in high-level discussions about Plexus’ strategy for helping people connect consistently and meaningfully.
• Shape the policies we adopt as we build direct-democracy on top of our unprecedented internet community

Qualifications

You have…

• Made smart people question what they’re doing
• worked on projects that failed, and you know exactly why
• made tools to improve your own thinking
• managed the growth of a complex system
• Experimented prolifically with frontier technology, especially in natural language processing and image generation

Qualities

You tend to…

• write everything down
• experiment obsessively
• share absolutely wild ideas
• contribute meaningfully to each of your communities

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 have strictly defined responsibility

Benefits

We’ll offer you…

• enormous responsibility: the chance to recenter the internet around our thoughts rather than our attention
• total autonomy: at every moment, the flexibility to work on whatever you think will benefit the most people the most
• a project with reach: work that will impact friends, family—everyone you know, and many more