Upgradable is seeking a coach to become a certified UP Coach for Upgradable's clients. This person will design and execute multi-month or multi-year behavior change interventions aimed at helping our clients set, plan, and plausibly achieve their life goals. This is essentially a temporary Chief of Staff role for our clients' UP Teams, which the coach will recruit, train, and manage. Coaching is part of the role, but not the only part. This person will not only encourage our clients to achieve their goals--the coach will literally be doing the work alongside them to ensure they do.
Who are we?
Upgradable is an applied research lab aiming to solve human flourishing. Everyone on the planet deserves to live an extraordinary life. We're working hard to make that a reality.
What's our culture like?
We're a principled, thoughtful, high-performing, and agile startup. We deeply value our mission, but at the same time we like to laugh and joke and be human with each other. It goes without saying, but were very focused on everyone's self-development.
Why is this role important?
As an UP Coach, you will be at the center of a client's handpicked team of experts and assistants dedicated to their life goals. You will be their trusted guide and accountability partner. You will help them focus on the most important things in their lives, while putting systems in place for automating or delegating everything else. In virtue of this, you will act as a force multiplier for clients and the social and environmental causes that they champion.
What will you do?
- Design and execute a 100 Day, 1 Year or 100 Year UP for our clients
- Do high level-strategy with clients for setting, planning, and achieving their life goals
- Recruit, train, and manage a clients UP Team
- Keep clients accountable to their goals over time
- Track an extensive set of client outcomes for weeks, months, and years
- Directly help clients accomplish their most important lifes work (e.g., build their businesses, do their research, write their books, etc.)
Who is suited for this role?
You should have extensive experience as a coach, with a deep desire to expand beyond simply coaching. You should be obsessed with doing whatever it takes--within reason--to help our clients actually achieve their goals.
You should also be a powerhouse in your own right--whether its having successfully built businesses, conducting seminal research, enacting major policy changes or achieving world-class levels of athletic performance. Your track record should demonstrate your ability to coach and guide some of the worlds most high-performing individuals.
These words should describe you:
- Polymathic: capable of performing well across a number of fields
- Rational: able to carefully evaluate relevant considerations and make good decisions
- Sharp: smart, quick-witted, and discerning
- Formidable: a force of nature that makes things happen
- Conscientious: able to reliably deliver high-quality work on time and within budget
- Growth-oriented: deeply focused on improving yourself and the value you offer
- Autonomous: self-directed and intrinsically motivated
- Altruistic: here to do good for the world
The ideal candidate should also have the following client support skills:
- Coaching: able to help a wide range of clients measurably enhance their goal attainment
- Mentoring: able to effectively provide expert advice and serve as a role model
- Counseling: able to compassionately guide a wide range of clients through their life problems
- Therapy: able to help a wide range of clients heal from psychological symptoms
- Training: able to help a wide range of learners gain new skills and abilities
- Teaching: able to help a wide range of learners gain new knowledge
- Consulting: able to persuasively provide expert advice and solve organizational problems
- Discretion: able to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information
The ideal candidate should also have the following business skills:
- Leadership: able to inspire and drive teams to reach ambitious goals
- Management: able to hire, fire, align, coach, and mentor people
- Strategy: proficient in strategic thinking and planning
- Organizational: able to juggle multiple priorities and stay on top of a large number of potentially conflicting tasks and deadlines
- Communication: able to succinctly communicate complex information to a variety of audiences both verbally and in writing
- Diplomacy: able to tactfully and effectively relate with people from varied socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds
- Software: proficient in Google Apps, Microsoft suite, and other basic software tools
Why should I join?
- Compensation: competitive hourly rates and generous profit share
- Self-development: dedicated time and support to run your own Upgrade Program
- Professional development: opportunity to build cross-functional skills and expertise
- Impact: substantial amounts of measurable social and environmental impact on the world
- Network: access to our network of experts, partners, and clients
- Flexibility: a fully remote, results-only work environment where you can continue working with your current clients
- Fun: an environment where playfulness is very welcome
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Upgradable. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We strive to be a meritocracy.