BuildZoom – AI for the construction industry – is hiring

BuildZoom’s data platform gathers data from a variety of sources, including thousands of regulatory entities, general contractors, their clients, and more. As the volume of interactions on the BuildZoom platform increases, the system becomes more intelligent and better able to guide consumers towards the right decision. By making this research publicly available, we are able to dramatically increase the number of people that visit BuildZoom to research construction and remodeling. We currently receive about 60,000 US visitors/day, and we hope to grow this exponentially by gathering and exposing extra data. To accelerate the system’s rate of learning, we’re looking for an entrepreneur to systematize and scale existing processes and invent new ones that are aimed at gathering intelligence from the marketplace. As an Entrepreneur in Residence, you will work directly with; our founders, a cross-disciplinary core management team, and Joe Lonsdale and Drew Oetting of 8VC; one of the top performing private funds currently managing ~$1.5 billion, to develop a strategic roadmap - complete with KPI’s and your own P&L. Specific objectives: - Develop and scale an automated process to use building permits, which signify that construction work has taken place, to elicit and codify feedback on the contractor who was hired to do the work. - Automatically identify industry-specific questions from consumers in the contracting purchase process, route them to the appropriate contracting professional in our network and implement a simple, elegant flow through which the professional can both answer the question and make a potential business contact. - Use an existing clustering methodology that infers which contracting professionals have worked with one another, to elicit and codify B2B feedback. The ideal candidate will be capable of straddling strategy and execution; is deeply technical and capable of instrumenting scalable systems; yet embodies the hacker spirit and embraces creative and counterintuitive solutions. Requirements: - Entrepreneurial spirit - a strong passion for gaining experience en route to eventually executing on your own vision - Experience utilizing large scale data, harnessing it to build complex data systems and products - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field - Full-stack experience, leading projects from concept to production and eventually scale, while staying mindful of business objectives and KPI’s - Training and/or great intuition when it comes to user-centered design - Ability to leverage opportunities and maximize progress while navigating inherent obstacles and ambiguity - Experience working on large, high-scale web applications - Comfort working within an architectural framework that accommodates a complex data system - Prior experience building data systems, products, and utilizing large scale data sets is highly preferred Benefits: - Your work will have the potential to positively impact almost two million monthly users who are already engaging on the BuildZoom platform, as well as the 60M US homeowners in a $600B market - Starting Day 1, you’ll have access to the industry’s most comprehensive store of data, which tracks the daily activities of over 2 million contracting professionals and over 40 million US properties - You’ll derive first-hand experience working in collaboration with founders and investors to move an initiative forward - Specifically, you’ll have unparalleled access to BuildZoom’s key investors, who will seed your own eventual concept upon successful completion of your tenure at BuildZoom - Competitive salary and equity with bonuses for hitting key milestones and KPI’s The application process: - Provide us with your LinkedIn profile and Github with a concise, personalized e-mail that explains why you are passionate about this opportunity - We’ll conduct an initial phone call to learn more about your background and provide you with more details on the opportunity - An in-person interview with one of the company founders and a member from the product or engineering team - Your final interview will be a pitch that will be made to the founders and 8VC