You will serve as one of 10 EIRs (click here for a full description of each role) for our Growth Stage members (post-revenue; ~series A). Our EIRs will work closely with 150+ growth-stage startups, providing hands-on coaching and practical expertise to help them scale and thrive. These startups are on the brink of becoming industry leaders, and we’re here to give them the tools, guidance, and support they need to accelerate their growth. This is your chance to shape the future of innovation and empower the next generation of groundbreaking companies.

Responsibilities:

• Host monthly in-person office hours at 1871 (Wednesdays) to connect directly with founders and provide personalized mentorship.

• Dedicate 2 hours per week to virtual or in-person office hours, offering tailored guidance to startups at various stages.
• Facilitate small group problem-solving sessions every other month, focusing on founders at the seed stage and functional leaders within startups (e.g., VP of Sales at Series A companies).
• Collaborate with 1871 to produce two thought leadership case studies annually, leveraging your expertise to highlight impactful strategies or solutions.
• Understand and guide the growth-stage startups to resources and networking opportunities within and outside of 1871

Time Commitment

• Provide 2 hours of office hours weekly outside of the monthly in-person sessions.
• Commit to attending at least 90% of in-person office hours.
• Sign a one-year contract with a commitment to actively engage and support the 1871 community.

• Demonstrated deep expertise in one or more of the key EIR roles (e.g., sales, fundraising, operations, or technology).

• At least 8+ years of experience working directly with growth-stage startups.

• A passion for mentorship and a drive to contribute meaningfully while building your personal brand within a thriving entrepreneurial community.

This is a volunteer position with the following benefits:

• Complimentary 1871 membership for you and up to 5 team members (valued at $2,000–$10,000).
• Recognition as an 1871 Entrepreneur-in-Residence on the 1871 website and in marketing materials for relevant events or content.
• A dedicated 1871 email address for professional use.
• Ability to promote your content on 1871 channels up to 4 times annually, amplifying your reach.
• Unlimited opportunities to contribute content such as blogs, articles, and webinars to the 1871 community.
• Option to create and deliver an immersive learning course facilitated with 1871 resources, generating an additional revenue stream.
• Complimentary tickets to all 1871 signature events (valued at $1,500+).

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Job Title: Technology Lead (CTO Track)

Rate: Salary + equity (TBD amounts)

Duration: Trial Period 3-6 months

Experience: Renovation, real estate, or property management experience preferred

Location: Remote (Chicago preferred)

Stop! This job is NOT for you if:

● You do not fit into our culture and buy into our vision

● You lack a growth & entrepreneurial mindset

● You prefer everything to be set up perfectly for you

● You avoid extreme ownership & accountability

● You lack technology competence and creativity

● You do NOT enjoy reading

Job Description:

Quality Builders is looking for a Full Stack Developer/Product Manager/Data Engineer all-in one (future CTO) with an entrepreneurial mindset to help us scale our early-stage GC-Tech (General Contracting technology) start-up across the US.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Dissect the renovation process to understand the key data points to collect across each unique project to build a predictive model to estimate jobs instantaneously.
• Design and develop a matching algorithm (similar to Uber matching riders and drivers) by using the predictive estimating technology to pair clients with a full suite of subcontractors based on figure cost and schedules 
• Integrate with existing project management software (e.g., BuilderTrend).
• Assisting other departments in using technology effectively
• Monitoring web analytics and making recommendations that align with the company’s goals.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain clean, well-documented, and efficient code for both the front-end and back-end of our applications.
• Design and implement user interfaces that are user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing.
• Develop and maintain APIs that are secure, scalable, and well-documented.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues.

About us:

QB is a team (us & we, not I & me) focused company living & making decisions based on our 5 core

values:

1. Do the right thing (integrity)

2. Speak up (courage)

3. 100% Visibility (transparency)

4. Be Different (uniqueness)

5. Embrace Constant Change (Growth)

The most important attribute QB is searching for is someone that is looking to learn & grow through adversity & challenges aka a growth entrepreneurial mindset.

Check out our VISION to learn more about where we are headed.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• The ability to constantly educate themselves so that they're up-to-date with the latest technological advances.
• Has the ability to work within a budget.
• An ability to respond well to constructive feedback.
• Master's degree in computer science or related field.
• Exceptional team management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to delegate efficiently.
• Extensive technological knowledge with an eye toward the future.
• Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role

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Do you find new technologies like High Performance Computing (HPC), machine learning, and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) intriguing? If so, you might be interested in a position as a Marketing Content Creator at Parallel Works. As a Marketing Content Creator at Parallel Works, you will join a cross-functional team that includes technology engineering, sales, and marketing professionals in a distributed environment. Parallel Works is a leader in democratizing high-performance computing technology to support compute-intensive research across academia, government, and industry. We are advancing our world-class technology platform and looking for a Marketing Content Creator to focus exclusively on creating high-quality content that effectively communicates our innovative solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and refine engaging digital marketing content for websites, blogs, social media, email campaigns, and more (e.g., use cases, whitepapers, solution briefs, technical briefs).
• Collaborate with engineers, technical experts, partners, and customers to conduct in-depth interviews, translating complex concepts into clear and persuasive content.
• Work with the marketing team to produce content that aligns with the company’s brand tone and strategic goals.
• Optimize content for SEO, adhering to industry best practices.
• Manage content calendars and deadlines, ensuring timely delivery of projects.
• Analyze content performance using data and analytics, making recommendations for improvements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to continuously enhance the company's content strategy.
• Contribute to a collaborative team culture, sharing insights and learning from others.

SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field. 2-3 years of experience in a content-focused marketing role, preferably in the technology sector.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively.
• Strong research skills and attention to detail. Proficiency with content management systems and analytics tools.
• Understanding of digital marketing, SEO, and audience engagement strategies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Video editing and graphic design skills are a plus. Familiarity with HPC, ML, and AI technologies is a plus.

Parallel Works is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Parallel Works will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive technical evaluation and a background check. ** For more information on Parallel Works, please visit https://parallelworks.com **

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About Us

Parallel Works is a Chicago-based startup focused on technical computing for science, engineering and business applications. The Parallel Works ACTIVATE SaaS platform makes high performance computing (HPC) workflows easy, fast and collaborative on hybrid cloud and supercomputing environments. The platform acts as middleware between these wide ranges of computing resources and allows organizations to leverage their resource, billing and user hierarchies in a uniform way. Our customers range from small and nimble startups and research organizations creating innovative computing and ML pipelines to the world’s leading flood modeling engineers to government weather and defense agencies to global automotive suppliers.

The Role The Department of Defense (DoD) Sales Executive is responsible for driving business growth by establishing and strengthening relationships within the U.S. Department of Defense with special emphasis on research groups. This role involves developing and executing strategic sales initiatives, understanding complex DoD procurement processes, and effectively positioning the company's solutions to meet mission-critical needs. The DoD Sales Executive will lead business development activities and drive revenue growth, working closely with internal teams to tailor solutions that address the unique challenges and goals of DoD customers.

Responsibilities

• Business Development: Identify, pursue, and secure new business opportunities within various branches of the Department of Defense, including (but not limited to) Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, with a special emphasis on research groups with compute-intensive workloads.
• Customer Relationship Management: Build and maintain trusted relationships with key decision-makers, influencers, and stakeholders within the DoD. Develop a deep understanding of customer needs, challenges, and strategic objectives.
• Sales Strategy Execution: Create and execute sales plans to achieve revenue targets, including forecasting, tracking, and reporting progress. Align strategies with company objectives and market trends.
• Proposal Development and Negotiation: Lead the preparation of proposals and presentations tailored to the specific needs of DoD clients. Negotiate contract terms in alignment with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Market Intelligence and Analysis: Stay informed of market trends, competitor activities, and emerging needs within the DoD sector. Leverage insights to refine sales approaches and influence product/service development.
• Compliance: Ensure all sales activities comply with federal regulations, government contracting standards, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) guidelines.
• Collaboration with Internal Teams: Work closely with engineering, product development, marketing, and project management teams to develop solutions that address DoD-specific requirements.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in sales or business development with a focus on the Department of Defense or Defense Contractors.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of the DoD acquisition process, contracting vehicles, and federal procurement guidelines.
• Skills: Proven ability to develop strategies and drive results in a government sales environment. Excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Clearance: Must possess or be able to obtain a security clearance.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in government contracting are a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Network: Established network of contacts within various DoD branches.
• Technical Background: Familiarity with technology solutions used by defense agencies (e.g., cloud computing or high-performance computing).
• Problem Solving: Ability to analyze complex requirements and develop innovative solutions that meet DoD objectives.

Parallel Works is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Parallel Works will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive technical evaluation and a background check.

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About Us:

Parallel Works is a Chicago-based startup focused on technical computing for science, engineering and business applications. The Parallel Works SaaS platform makes high performance computing (HPC) workflows easy, fast and collaborative on hybrid cloud and supercomputing environments. The platform acts as middleware between these wide ranges of computing resources and allows organizations to leverage their resource, billing and user hierarchies in a uniform way. Our customers range from small and nimble startups and research organizations creating innovative computing and ML pipelines to the world’s leading flood modeling engineers to government weather and defense agencies to global automotive suppliers.

The Role:

This position involves development and enhancement of the Parallel Works platform, which runs on all three leading public cloud platforms: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. You’ll be responsible for developing the core platform and its backend services. You will interact with HPC job schedulers, cloud APIs, workflow management frameworks, and container systems to create a responsive, reliable, and user friendly system. Parallel Works provides developers the rare opportunity to interact with cutting edge cloud and on-premises technologies. We are very interested in hearing from individuals with experience architecting high performance computing clusters, parallel file systems, high throughput networking, and GPU clusters.

Required Experience

Minimum:

• BSci in Computer Science or related field.
• 5-7+ years of programming experience in Golang or TypeScript WebSockets RabbitMQ or other queue based software architecture
• Database experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL
• Distributed computing, good understanding of how software is load balanced and deployed in production
• Tunneling and port forwarding
• Comfortable with Linux operating system, command-line shell interpreters and scripting techniques
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests

Desired Experience:

• Advanced degree (MSci or PhD) in Computer Science
• Automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, and Python scripting
• Familiarity with HPC schedulers such as PBS and Slurm Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cloud resources and design patterns in AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Deploying containerized applications on Kubernetes, Docker and Singularity Architecting high performance computing clusters - on cloud and/or on premises

Parallel Works is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Parallel Works will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive technical evaluation and a background check

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About Us

Parallel Works is a Chicago-based startup focused on technical computing for science, engineering and business applications. The Parallel Works ACTIVATE SaaS platform makes high performance computing (HPC) workflows easy, fast and collaborative on hybrid cloud and supercomputing environments. The platform acts as middleware between these wide ranges of computing resources and allows organizations to leverage their resource, billing and user hierarchies in a uniform way. Our customers range from small and nimble startups and research organizations creating innovative computing and ML pipelines to the world’s leading flood modeling engineers to government weather and defense agencies to global automotive suppliers.

The Role

In your role as Project Manager you will lead and coordinate projects in High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background in HPC, an understanding of computational workflows, and proven experience in managing complex technical projects. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Software and HPC engineers, research scientists, IT professionals, and stakeholders, to deliver HPC projects on time, within scope, and on budget.

Responsibilities

• Define project objectives, scope, timelines, and deliverables for HPC projects.
• Develop detailed project plans, coordinate team schedules, and ensure timely completion of milestones.
• Track project progress and adjust plans as necessary to ensure successful delivery.
• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, including researchers, engineers, and executive sponsors.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring smooth and reliable project execution.
• Communicate project updates, risks, and impacts clearly and effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
• Collaborate with teams to prioritize requirements and allocate resources effectively.
• Work with technical teams to ensure projects meet performance standards and industry requirements.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance project outcomes and efficiency.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including technical specifications, progress reports, and post-project evaluations.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in an HPC or high-performance technical environment.
• Experience managing projects related to HPC and web software Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and tools (e.g., JIRA, MS Project).
• Certification in Project Management (PMP, PMI-ACP, etc.) is a plus.
• Coding Experience is a plus.

Parallel Works is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Parallel Works will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive technical evaluation and a background check.

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About IN BOLD PRINT:

Our software platform helps small to midsize companies in the consumer goods space measure their carbon emissions to meet regulatory requirements and drive revenue growth. Think of IN BOLD PRINT as the ‘TurboTax’ of carbon accounting.

IN BOLD PRINT is a female-founded, venture-backed startup based in Chicago. We just completed another successful capital fundraise and are looking to grow our team as we launch into this next phase of rapid growth! With a round full of both institutional investors and strategic, corporate partners, we are set to move quickly and take the industry by storm.

About the Role:

IN BOLD PRINT is seeking a driven Full-Stack Software Engineer to own the next generation of our software platform’s development.

Our platform helps small to midsize companies in the consumer goods space measure their carbon emissions to meet regulatory requirements and drive revenue growth. Think of IN BOLD PRINT as the ‘TurboTax’ of carbon accounting. Our platform offers 1) a simple, guided interface that allows users to quickly and easily enter the right information about their business, 2) a powerful carbon emissions calculation engine that delivers accurate, share-able results, and 3) intelligent insights that give businesses the information they need to report and reduce their emissions.

In This Role, You Will:

• Work directly with our CTO to architect, design, and develop the next version of our software platform, focusing first on our customer portal, from the ground up
• Manage the entire software development lifecycle for new features, including service ownership, testing, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and support
• Create user-friendly software that allows users to easily interpret and provide necessary information
• Design front-end software with back-end data architecture in mind to facilitate auditable carbon emissions calculations and insights
• Initially, spend 90% of your time on front-end development, gradually increasing back-end work and determining your preferred balance as the team and roadmap evolve
• Apply best practices and modern technologies to develop a reusable code base that supports high modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability
• Build a robust technical foundation within a cloud PaaS architecture, including CI/CD practices like automated testing and version control, for team use as we grow
• Provide technical direction and estimates for new features to guide the product roadmap
• Develop well-designed test cases and adhere to testing guidelines and best practices
• Identify and resolve technical debt and performance bottlenecks, improve code, and deploy enhancements to production
• Document your codebase with requirements, decisions made, future improvements, and any other necessary information to ensure others can easily pick up where you left off, maintaining flexibility for the entire team
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and innovations to enhance platform capabilities and functionality, integrating third-party services where necessary

Your Technical Skills

• Proven experience in developing full-stack software solutions with a strong track record of delivering high-quality code independently and at scale
• Experienced as both an architect and hands-on developer for end-to-end solutions currently in production
• Comfortable being the primary technical resource and owner of an end-to-end solution
• Skilled at inferring technical requirements from product-focused requirements
• Passionate about writing high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Skilled with JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and React
• Proficient with languages like Python and SQL
• Strong understanding of relational database systems such as Snowflake or PostgreSQL
• Experience with CI/CD and Git
• Comfortable working with third-party APIs
• Familiar with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS

Your Soft Skills

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced startup environment
• Desire to plan for future growth opportunities that allow us to innovate and differentiate, while also maintaining a focus on practical and immediate needs
• Eagerness to mentor colleagues and promote knowledge-sharing by writing clear, accessible code and documentation that can be easily handed off, enabling personal growth and focus on multiple new company initiatives
• Willingness to jump on any task that takes priority as it comes up, while clearly communicating what work is being traded off as a result
• Ability to balance independent work with team collaboration
• Openness to receiving and giving feedback for mutual growth
• Passion for user-focused and innovative product development
• Ability to manage time and dynamic priorities across multiple product initiatives
• Ownership of mistakes and focus on solutions
• Initiative to recommend and develop innovative approaches to tasks
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and effectively
• Understanding the perspectives of both users and the sales team to inform technical decisions
• Commitment to ongoing education and staying current with industry advances and best practices

Why You’ll Love IN BOLD PRINT:

• You will have the opportunity to directly impact the company’s growth and success with your everyday work
• The fast-paced startup environment makes work exciting, challenging, and motivating
• Working in sustainability means that the work you do has a real impact on the world around you
• You control your career path. You can advance your career and determine your path as the business grows
• We offer competitive pay and opportunities for equity ownership in the company
• We’re a highly collaborative team - offering space for remote work paired with regular opportunities for in-person collaboration
• Our flexible PTO policy lets you take time for yourself

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