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community architect @ arcadia house
What is 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, helping them raise millions of dollars. 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; New York City, NY; Vancouver, Canada; London, UK.
We envision residencies all around the world, inspiring and supporting ambitious individuals who wants to level up their lives, and the lives of others 🫶
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 life, you’ll plan fireside chats and dinners with successful founders and VCs, and you’ll make sure living in your home is a 10 star experience.
Community Architects is a part time role (~10 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.
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.
Responsibilities
Who You Are
Perks of Being a Community Architect
“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.
Commitment
~5-20 hours per week depending on the responsibilities you take on (this includes time talking with residents about love, life, and the pursuit of happiness)
Compensation
Depending on your commitment this could be a volunteer position up to your housing being completely covered.
Location & Start Date
Current Community Architects you’ll be working with
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How to Apply
Use you will speak your responses, its very casual :) just looking to get to know you better!
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