Fwd: Warby Parker is hiring a Director of Social Innovation
Jocelyn Wyatt
From: Neil Blumenthal <ne...@warbyparker.com>
Date: Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:48 AM
Subject: Warby Parker is hiring a Director of Social Innovation
To: Neil Blumenthal <ne...@warbyparker.com>
Hey friends!
Hope all is well. Would love your help circulating the attached
position description (copied pasted below as well). We're looking to
hire a Director of Social Innovation to help us maximize our impact.
If you know anyone, please send them our way!
Also, we're about to launch a Facebook campaign to support our partner
VisionSpring (you're the first to know). For every 10 new likes, we're
going to help VisionSpring distribute an extra pair of glasses. So, if
you haven't already, please "Like" us on Facebook and encourage all of
your friends to do the same - https://www.facebook.com/warbyparker.
Neil Blumenthal
Warby Parker Eyewear
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Position: Director of Social Innovation, Union Square, NYC
ABOUT WARBY PARKER:
Warby Parker was founded with a rebellious spirit and a lofty
objective: to create boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at
a revolutionary price point. Prescription eyewear simply should not
cost $500. By cutting out the middlemen and engaging directly with
consumers through our website (www.warbyparker.com), Warby Parker is
able to offer vintage-inspired frames custom fit with anti-reflective,
polycarbonate prescription lenses for $95 including shipping.
Additionally, we enable customers to share the gift of vision. For
each pair of glasses sold, we donate a pair to someone in need through
our Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program.
Our Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program is one of the ways in which we
strive to do good. We believe that for-profit companies should play an
active role in solving global problems. We think the best way for us
to do that is by considering all of our stakeholders in every decision
we make, including our customers, employees, the one billion people
without access to glasses, and the environment.
Warby Parker launched in February, 2010 and has been featured in
publications such as GQ, Vogue, Oprah, NY Times, Forbes, and Daily
Candy, and was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “100 Brilliant
Ideas of 2010”.
Learn more at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUBRL3oPRTo
http://bbmg.com/news-events/green-room-neil-blumenthal/
DESCRIPTION OF ROLE
We are looking for a Director of Social Innovation to join our
leadership team. We’re striving to create a new model for how
for-profit companies should behave. We believe that for-profits should
not only avoid doing “bad,” but should serve to do “good” as active
change agents. The Director of Social Innovation will regularly answer
the question “how can we do more?” S/he will design and implement
strategies that enable us to have a greater positive impact. S/he will
manage relationships with key partners, such as VisionSpring through
which we distribute glasses to those in need, Invisible Children with
which we’ve developed a pair of sunglasses to raise awareness of
conflict and poverty in central Africa, B Corporation of which we are
a member, and Blue Source from which we purchase carbon offsets. S/he
will also be responsible for communicating these strategies widely in
hopes of inspiring others to seek how they can do more.
Location: Union Square, NYC
Position type: Full-time
Reports to: Co-CEO
You will be responsible for:
· Working with founders to find a way to ensure that everyone on
earth has access to glasses
· Creating and managing relationships with key partners and
constantly working with them to create value for both parties
· Activating our customer base, employees and broader community
to “do good” (eg through social media, speaker series, etc)
· Implementing our sustainability strategy/minimizing our and
our partners’ environmental impact
· Creating content for website and other communications materials
· Representing Warby Parker at conferences and through speaking
engagements
· Cultivating a community of like-minded individuals
· Creating our Annual Social Impact Report
· Managing social impact related press inquiries
· Working with educators to develop content for future entrepreneurs
Ideal candidates must possess:
· Passion for eyewear and doing good
· Minimum of 5 years experience in social
enterprise/international development
· Deep understanding of and network within the social enterprise community
· Exceptional communication skills (written and oral)
· History of innovation and creative problem solving
· Resourcefulness, flexibility, and exceptional teamwork skills
· Ability to work in a fast-paced, high productivity environment
with tight deadlines
· Love for data-driven results
HOW TO APPLY
To apply please send the following to jo...@warbyparker.com. Please
title your email: “Director of Social Innovation.”
· Resume
· A few words of why you’d like to work at Warby Parker
· A list of at least three of your favorite publications/blogs
that you read regularly
· A list of at least three recent social enterprise-focused
conferences/panels/events that you attended. Please indicate if you
were an attendee, speaker or host/organizer
Thank you very much. We appreciate your interest in Warby Parker and
look forward to the potential of working together.