Interviewer

About Palm Venture Studios

Palm Venture Studios (PVS) is a single-family-office-backed venture studio with a national footprint, headquartered in Greenwich CT. As a venture studio we both acquire early stage distressed companies or assets and seed new startup companies that will be both good businesses and create positive impact for society. We are a team of entrepreneurs and operators that partner with mission-driven founders to give their companies rescue capital and expertise, and build new companies from scratch.

About the Interviewer Role

As our dedicated Interviewer, you will be a keystone piece of our Talent team. You are the frontlines of understanding our most promising candidates: who they really are, what they have accomplished in their career, what motivates them, and where they want to go next. This is a part-time hourly position that is designed for maximum flexibility, but it has the potential to grow into a full-time role. You can do this job from anywhere, as long as you have a fast internet connection, professional background for video calls, and ability to work EST hours (for calls, emails, Slack).

You will receive introductions to candidates that have passed their first round hiring manager interviews, and receive their resumes/LinkedIn, as well as the role scope that they are applying for. Your job is to conduct meticulous ~hour long interviews with them, taking careful notes, and then to polish/revise those notes into a brief that you then submit to the hiring manager. Your role is not to judge the candidate. Your role is to extract as much concrete, detailed information as you can about what they have done in their last several positions, so that we have as much information as possible to inform our decision about whether to advance them or not. Your job is to do this in a way that feels like a nice conversation, not an interrogation, so that they have a positive candidate experience.

You love people, stories, and details. While any curious person with attention to detail can do this job, this position is an especially good fit for people with a background in journalism. Palm Venture Studios is a high-accountability setting. Here you will own your work, and are free to organize your time however suits you best, as long as you adhere to the guidelines for submitting your deliverables. You will be joining - and helping shape - a small but high-performing Talent team.

Accountabilities

Immersive yourself in the role description.

• Receive the role description & search materials for each role that you’ll be interviewing candidates for for. Align yourself on the key elements that we are looking for for that position.
• Receive introductions to candidates that you’ll be interviewing.

Conduct interviews.

• Schedule and conduct ~60min deep diveinterviews. (We will train you in how to do this.)
• Do basic prep ahead of each, e.g. review the candidate's resume & LinkedIn, form a plan for where you will spend the most time.
• Use a semi-structured approach, hitting consistent questions as well as custom questions relevant to that candidate.
• Take meticulous notes during the call, and after the call polish the document and create a PDF of that doc + their resume to submit to the Talent team as their Candidate Packet.
• Make the candidate feel comfortable, heard, and welcomed during the interview.

Requirements

You are a great fit for this role if you...

• Have an innate curiosity of people and their stories.
• Have a good grasp of the modern professional landscape of technology, finance, and business, i.e. you know enough about how companies work to ask good questions and understand the answers when interviewing senior and executive candidates.
• Have attention to detail, and ability to take detailed notes on a conversation while you’re having it.
• Have a pleasant, personable, and professional demeanor.
• Have a reliable ability to do phone calls and video calls (i.e. consistent and reliable access to strong phone signal and fast wifi).
• You must have professional background for your video calls.
• Bonus points for a background or training in, and passion for, journalism or journalistic pursuits.

Benefits

This is a part-time hourly role, starting with 5-10 hours per week and likely growing from there. Hourly rate will depend on your seniority and experience. There is a possibility that this can become a full time position, over time.