Hiring

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Last updated May 2019.


OSE is looking for the following project-based candidates:

STEM Educators

We are currently developing curriculum for public technological literacy and teaching. The full curriculum outline is as in http://bit.ly/2Vj5o1Z . We are looking for open source STEM entrepreneurs to replicate our offerings in other locations, either independently or as part of a franchise. The intent is to create a technically literate public so we can all create a world that we want to live in. Qualifications: familiarity with open source development with a track record of contributing to public development projects. Passion for open source product development. Applicants must be financially independent, as this training is for independent entrepreneurs to work under the OSE brand, but financial success depends on the skills and initiative of the applicant. Startup time to breakeven may be anywhere from 6 months to 2 years. Applications: please send links to sample work if you are interested in setting up a franchise. The franchise fee is USD $10,000, and includes a kit of our 3D printer so you can learn to build one of our core machines, participation in 3 of our workshops (one STEAM camp - http://bit.ly/2Vj5o1Z, a one day Extreme Build of the 3D Printer, and a 5 day Extreme Build of the CEED Eco-Home), study materials, and 3 hours per week of franchise mentorship for a total of with the OSE founde . The involvement includes learning how to design OSE machines, starting with the 3D printer, and getting mentorship from the OSE Founder over a period of 6 months to start a business producing 3D printers and other machines, and

  • OSE has access to $10k per month in Google Ad Grants as a nonprofit organization. We could take advantage of this to scale our programs. Currently, we are limited my marketing ability more than by production ability, and we do not have a team member managing our Google Ads account.
  • Duties: create and manage ad campaigns to fill workshops with participants
  • Payment: on contingency basis. Payment is by commission - based on tuition to our immersion workshops, with gross sales goals per event typically around $20k-40k. Our general commission structure is 20% of gross.
  • OSE capacity is currently one immersion event per month.
  • For application cation background, please review some of our key work: Application - Please review the OSE TED Talk, MIT Innovations Journal Article, New Yorker Article, and 2018 OSE Fellowship Announcement.
  • To apply, please take a look at one of our latest workshops - the Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp], and submit a 1-2 page brief outlining how you would be able to help us market this event, and what kind of quantitative results you would hypothetically expect to get as a result of tour work, and on what timeframe. Please be specific on your appproach to make a credible case based on quantitative assessment. For the STEAM Camp above, the maximum audience is 48 participants.
  • Please send applications and questions to Ops at opensourceecology.org

Business Development Partners

  • About: OSE engages in collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. You would be working with the ED to support and lead one aspect of OSE business development.
  • Business Development Needs: OSE develops open source industrial machines for building Civilization with modern day comforts. See the GVCS TED Talk. At this point, we have several machines that we are taking to product release as viable enterprises. We are looking for collaborating enerprise development partners to productize our 3D Printer Construction Set and Universal Axis robotics construction set. The enterprises we are considering are kit sales, assembled machine sales, educational workshops, STEM education camps, and teaching curricula, and other educational products. We are developing these as open enterprises, with business models published openly. Our goal is eradication of artificial scarcity and unleasing of innovation by open access to both education and Enterprise. The intended audience for OSE work is both independent entrepreneurs or licensees.
  • Application: Please review the OSE TED Talk, MIT Innovations Journal Article, New Yorker Article, and 2018 OSE Fellowship Announcement and compose a 1-2 page press release announcing the product release of an Enterprise that you can support or lead to success in partnership with OSE. The Enterprise should be based around the Universal Axis, or 3D Printer, or Desktop Microfactory, or an educational product related to these.
  • Contact: Please send applications and questions to Ops at opensourceecology.org
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