Characters of The Residency

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Characters of The Residency

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What’s The Residency?

The Residency is on a mission to create a new version of the college experience that provides ambitious young builders with the connections, the space, and the mindset needed to positively impact the world.

The current college experience is expensive; it limits exploration; it weakens intrinsic motivation; it rarely teaches practical skills; ~25% of its students are depressed.

Because universities, governments, and accreditation organizations need to coordinate to change the college experience, and because each of these institutions are bureaucratic themselves, it is hard to change the college experience from within any of them.

So we are creating our own, specifically for the most ambitious, smart, and considerate youth we can find.

At The Residency, we provide housing, co-working space, coaching, mentorship, speaker events, dinners, and more. We help residents grow personally and professionally. We create an environment that fosters life long friendships. We push residents to the frontier of knowledge and innovation. We enable them to create an even more wonderful world for us all.

We are currently running residencies in San Francisco, CA; Berkeley, CA; Cambridge, MA; Berlin, Germany; Bangalore, India.

We envision residencies all around the world, inspiring and supporting not only the most ambitious, but every individual who wants to level up their lives, and the life of others 🫶

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Your Role and Impact

Community Architects are the foundation for The Residency experience. They live and work alongside residents, being their leader that keeps operations running and communities thriving.

As a Community Architect, you’ll have 1-1 conversations with residents about the meaning of life, you’ll plan fireside chats and dinners with successful founders and VCs, and you’ll throw events that give you and the residents the feeling of joyful play.

The Community Architect is a part time role (~5 hours per week), so we expect you to be spending a majority of your time working on your own ambitious project, just like the residents.

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Harry Nyquist⁠

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Rick Rubin⁠

embody the mindset Community Architects should posses.

Harry Nyquist worked at the infamous Bell Labs. At Bell Labs, the top patent filers had one thing in common: they regularly had meals with Harry. Harry was an inquisitive and kind person who made people feel heard. He was able to get people thinking, drawing out their creative energy.

Rick Rubin, author of “The Creative Act” and a music production genius, is known for enhancing the innate talent of the artists he works with. He does not impose his vision, he intuitively listens. He experiments, he helps create.

Not many people are as intuitive, curious, and empathetic as Harry and Rick. It is this rare breed of human we are looking for as a Community Architect for The Residency.

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Responsibilities

Readily Available: Be available to support residents when they need it, ensuring they know they always have someone to turn to.

Community Building: Plan a monthly social activity to strengthen the bonds within our cohort and with the broader community (anything from movie nights at home to skydiving at sunset).

Demo Days: Run weekly demo days for both you and residents to showcase progress on work.

Brainstorming Improvements: Meet weekly with fellow Community Architects to share insights, hold each other accountable, and drive improvements.

Note: This is a new company. We encourage you to get creative and experiment with your role. Spread the vibes and create the experiences you feel are right for your cohort.

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Who You Are

Vulnerable and Open: You're unafraid to be yourself, you are okay admitting when you don't have the answers.

Warm and Nurturing: You possess a warmth that makes people feel cared for and valued, somewhat like a mom/dad, full of love for their kids 🥹 🫶

Curious and Knowledgeable: Your mind is bustling with ideas and questions. You are driven by an innate curiosity across many domains.

Responsive and Organized: You have got your sh** together.

Bonus points:

you like to tell stories (enjoying writing, photography, or videography to convey beauty)

you are a social butterfly, a super connector

you like improving spaces (think interior design, installing new lights, sound systems, etc)

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Perks of Being a Community Architect

Societal Impact: You are like the residents: building something ambitious. You yourself are part of the next generation of innovators. You will be living and working alongside others just like you. In your position, you are instrumental to crafting the perfect environment that enables yourself and your fellow residents to make history!

Network Expansion: This role requires you to meet many new people. Think founders and researchers who have knowledge and experiences to share with residents. Think investors and companies who can provide valuable resources to residents. We organize events with all of them and you will be their primary contact!

Skill Development: In this role you will learn what it is like to lead people to action by putting the right “pressures”/incentives in place and saying the right things in order to motivate residents to action. You will learn to build a thriving community that handles conflict. And you will learn to connect deeply with new people.

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“Disclaimer”

We do not expect anyone to perfectly match all of the descriptions listed above, nor do we want them to! We expect each Community Architect to bring their unique self to the role, using their uniqueness to give their cohort a special experience.

This isn't a typical “job”; it's the start of a journey. Some of you will end up starting a company with a resident or starting one of your own. Some of you will end up working with a VC or with a company that we host events with. Some of you might stay a Community Architect, continuing to help us bring a collaborative and creative culture to the rest of the world! Whatever your path, we are excited to help you navigate it.

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Commitment

~5 hours per week (this includes time talking with residents about love, life, and the pursuit of happiness)

Compensation

This is a volunteer position with options spontaneously to take paid responsibilities.

Location & Start Date

Berkeley, CA - May 2024

All Current Locations - September 2024 (+ possible future locations Austin, Texas; Toronto, Canada; London, U.K; Delhi, India; NYC; and more, dependent on location of awesome Community Architects)

For locations and start dates beyond September, you are still encouraged to apply now.

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Current Community Architects you’ll be working with

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Nick⁠

- San Francisco

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Brian⁠

- San Francisco

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Sully⁠

- San Francisco

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Hardeep⁠

- Bangalore

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Neeraj⁠

- Bangalore

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Mei⁠

- Cambridge

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Lucas⁠

- Cambridge

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Dominik⁠

- Berlin

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Thorge⁠

- Berlin

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How to Apply

nick@livetheresidency.com⁠

with why you think you would be a good fit for this role!

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