Hungry, Tech-savvy, Wannabe Entrepreneur Superstar Needed! - remote

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This is a dream role designed specifically for a high-achieving, tech-savvy university graduate who believes there is more to life than getting a job at a mega-corporation and counting the days until retirement (or layoffs…)

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Dear Future Entrepreneurial Superstar,

If you’ve always been an expert communicator who is technologically inclined and would like to take those skills to the next level -- while at the same time learning the crucial entrepreneurial and marketing skills you need to grow your first company -- this could be the opportunity you’re looking for.

But before I tell you more about the opportunity, I should probably introduce myself.

I’m a Co- Founder of a fast-growing Australian Speciality Coffee company based London with 6 cafes, and about 10 years ago I was in the exact same position as you.

I graduated from university and worked for some of the top investment banks in the world in London, Sydney and NYC. I got tired of being desk bound for 50 hours a week, so I decided to take the entrepreneurial route.

I returned to the London hungry to start a business, but after all my “formal education” I still knew nothing about being an entrepreneur…

So, I started out with a gym franchise and opened three 24-hour gyms in three years and learned through hands-on experience how to run and scale a business.

Four years later I started Urban Baristas bringing Aussie style coffee (epic flat whites) to the UK and now I have 6 cafes in London, roasting our own specialty coffee beans and a successful subscription service delivering our coffee straight to customers door. We are on a mission to grow our subscription side of the business to ensure everyone wake’s up to Urban Coffee.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

Truth: Your “formal education” doesn’t prepare you for the reality of starting and running a business.

Sad Reality: Uni these days get a lot of criticism about leaving graduates with too much debt and not enough job opportunities.

While it’s a valid criticism, it doesn’t tell the whole story. Where they should be receiving criticism is for leaving graduates without the skills to build their own company.

Opportunity: Work as a “right hand woman/man” for a fast-growing company that now is focusing on growing our ecommerce side of the business.

You will be in the privileged position to learn from some of the most successful companies in the world and find out what makes them successful.

If you’ve got a burning desire to be an entrepreneur, and this sounds like the opportunity you’re looking for, here are the…

I am looking for someone who…

Performance and attitude is the most important aspect of this job, not clocking hours in the office or water cooler politics.

Want to set up shop at a coworking space in Bali, or put the finishing touches on an email campaign while sipping coffee at a sidewalk café Rio? Fine with us. As long as you can work on a UK timezone, we’re cool with it.

Unlike other jobs, we don’t believe that what you do should dictate where you live.

We’re looking for people who can demonstrate they hold themselves to a higher standard in everything they do, because with great flexibility comes great responsibility.

All this flexibility doesn’t mean we’re not a close-knit team…

For your first month you’ll be working side-by-side with the CEO &his team, and after that you’ll have daily meetings and quarterly retreats to make sure we’re growing stronger as a team.

Peter Drucker, the father of business consulting, made a statement long ago that we follow to this day:

“Business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results;all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”

Marketing, and specifically direct response marketing, is what drives success in every industry, and to be successful here it’s something you must be excited to learn about.

We’re a small company with big aspirations, and we work hard (and have a LOT of fun) while making that happen. If you have what it takes as an individual - in other words, if you’re a consistent high-achiever in everything you do in life - then you'll fit in well at our company.

No exceptions - in order to apply please provide the following.

1) Write a COVER LETTER addressing the following questions:

a) Why do you think you'd be the “Entrepreneurial Superstar” we’re looking for?

Describe why you’re a consistent high-achiever. Give SPECIFIC examples of past achievements and/or accolades related to your successes. (TIP) If you literally only had 30 seconds with me in an elevator, what would you say is your biggest accomplishment?

b) What are the last three books you've read?

c) What do you do for fun?

d) Explain what you're doing now for work and why you’re looking elsewhere.

e) To ensure your attention to detail, please include the words “Pink Cadillac” in the first paragraph of your cover letter.

2) Create ONE document (Word or PDF) that contains both your custom cover letter and your resume. Cover letter first, resume second.

3) Click the “Apply Now” button on this page or send an email to hello@urbanbaristas.co.uk

Application deadline: 15/02/2021