Bilingual Venture Growth Manager (French or Spanish)

Rippleworks Foundation believes all people should have equitable access to the resources and opportunities to live life to the fullest. Our mission is to relentlessly focus on the needs of social ventures by providing practical support for impactful entrepreneurs and their teams so Ventures can improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs has directly supported 250 ventures by running 275 projects in 60 countries, held workshops for over 1,000 leaders and has deployed $150 million in unrestricted funding to our Ventures.

We are a 40+ person team to create the best possible workplace for purpose-driven professionals to make an outsized difference in the world: learning, growing, and feeling joy along the way. 

Rippleworks has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (by Fast Company) and one of the world’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (by Fast Company and Accenture)

We support our portfolio of Ventures 3 ways:

Rippleworks Projects: Rippleworks leads short-term, high-impact projects where social ventures address key operational challenges through customized engagement that pair ventures with industry-leading executives who bring deeply relevant entrepreneurial experience. 

Rippleworks Leaders Studio: Rippleworks designs and delivers practical, interactive, expert-led learning sessions designed specifically for social venture leaders who are seeking to learn and grow. Rippleworks partners with leading industry executives to run interactive, results-driven learning programs where social venture leaders gain the critical skills they need to deliver impact at scale. 

Rippleworks Capital: Rippleworks provides hard-to-find capital required for scale (grants and investments in the $1M-$3M range) to 50+ ventures working in 80+ countries.

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging: We know inequities exist across the globe and are perpetuated by practices such as systemic racism and colonialism. 

Rippleworks is taking an active role in disrupting these inequities that disadvantage historically excluded people. As such, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) is integral to realizing this vision. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Rippleworks. Candidates from racially underrepresented and marginalized groups  (Black, Latinx, Native American or individuals with national origins from developing countries that reflect the communities we serve) are strongly encouraged to apply. Rippleworks also complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email christina@rippleworks.org.

Hiring Key Dates: 

- Applications Open: April 22nd

- Applications Closed: May 3rd

- Interviews occurring: May to early June

The Role

The Bilingual Venture Growth Manager (VGM) will directly impact  high-growth social ventures scale by leading short-term, innovative Rippleworks projects. You will manage diverse, virtual teams across emerging markets and your hands-on approach to solving these challenges will help companies build permanent capabilities to drive inspiring, meaningful social impact.

You will work directly with CEOs of leading social ventures in partnership with C-suite executives from top companies to solve the ventures' toughest scaling challenges. This is an ideal role for anyone who has a passion for building collaborative team working environments and who wants to learn what it takes to become an exceptional operational leader at a high-growth startup. 

Requirements

Specifically, you will:

• Partner with leading social ventures: Manage multiple projects concurrently with social ventures and highly motivated C-suite executives from top companies
• Partner with leading tech executives: Assess operational challenges faced by fast-growth social ventures and how to best solve these challenges
• Build and manage fast-moving teams: Bring together stakeholders to quickly form teams and to effectively drive results across diverse business functions (engineering, product, marketing, data science, human capital, operations etc) that are critical for growth
• Lead results-driven project management: Create project plans and milestones, hold stakeholders accountable, and lead weekly meetings to build permanent capabilities within the social venture
• Play a pivotal role in designing Rippleworks’ growth: Directly shape our overall strategy, impact, and team culture

About You

• You are a driving force in an entrepreneurial organization, and are building a career on being a details-oriented problem solver. You are both a strategic thinker and a tactical do-er. You get excited when you deeply learn about new topics and will stop at nothing to solve the problem at hand. You love being at the bottom of a learning curve and sprinting to the top.
• You strive to be the best at what you do, and you want to make your teammates better. You have high emotional intelligence, you are passionate about building great teams, and you understand how to influence and motivate people. You believe that one person can make a difference.

Competencies for this role

• Effective Communication: Developing and delivering appropriate communications, conveying a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences
• Plans & Aligns: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with goals
• Building Teams: Fostering collaboration, diversity, and shared objectives to create a cohesive and high-performing group that achieves common goals
• Coaching: Facilitating skill development through effective questioning, motivational feedback, and empowerment, fostering individuals' confidence and self-esteem to navigate and solve challenges

Core competencies for all Rippleworks employees

• Customer Focus:  You have a customer-first mentality (both internal and external customers) and seek out opportunities to stay close to our customers to understand and meet their evolving needs.
• Agile Learning: You continuously and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as growth opportunities. 
• Interpersonal Skills: You relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. You use deep empathy to build relationships and work collaboratively in a team environment and are particularly attuned to different and at times competing stakeholder needs and requirements. You treat everyone fairly and equitably.
• Managing Ambiguity: You’re able to navigate dynamic, changing situations and make decisions or create a path forward with imperfect or incomplete information. You Remain calm when things are up in the air; comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Driving for Meaningful Results: You consistently and effectively deliver, and mobilize others to deliver, results as well as identify ways to improve that make a positive impact.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with demonstrated ability to create, build, and manage cross-functional projects and teams that bring tangible results. This can include roles such as:
• Experience leading strategic initiatives
• Product management
• Project management within a startup or a resource-constrained, entrepreneurial environment
• Proven track record of working closely with executives, effectively holding them accountable and acting as thought partners
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain authentic relationships with key stakeholders
• Demonstrated clear and structured written and verbal communication skills in English with exceptional ability to read the audience, articulate ideas clearly and succinctly, add value to the topic at hand, and facilitate highly productive working sessions with diverse audiences 
• Ability to work flexible hours across all time zones to virtually collaborate with our Ventures and Experts located around the world
• Passion for entrepreneurship and social impact
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to conduct business in French OR Spanish

Benefits

What We Offer

• Don't take a pay cut to do good in the world! We offer a competitive salary of $163,000, with competitive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, and short term + long term disability insurance, 401K + employer match, cell phone allowance, flexible PTO (non-accrued vacation), wellness/self-care stipends and more
• Be inspired by meaningful work: You will see and feel the tangible impact of your work on a daily basis
• Travel the world: Everyone at Rippleworks has the opportunity for at least one international working trip a year to see our impact in the field. Our Study Abroad program funds personal learning experiences abroad for employees to better understand the different geographies, cultures, and sectors that we support. And we know travel can be tiring! Our No Place Like Home policy encourages employees to take a day off after Rippleworks-related travel to catch up on sleep, do some laundry, or spend some extra time with your family. 
• ​​Boost your lifelong journey of giving back: Through our Community Grants program, employees have the opportunity to give a $50K grant to a local community nonprofit doing meaningful work in an area that the employee is passionate about. We also provide a $2,500 charitable donation match for financial and volunteer hour contributions.
• A culture that values professional & personal growth: We provide an external professional coach for every team member who wants one and a learning budget to put towards professional development. We also hold monthly Lunch & Learns, monthly team-building, regular team celebrations (birthdays, milestones, anniversaries, holidays).
• A diverse and inclusive workplace that actively seeks and attracts people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
• A flexible, remote-first  work environment in which team members have flexible time off, set their own work hours, and decide whether to work remotely or in an office
• A team of friends: We are a highly collaborative team that values learning together, recurring Slack jokes, and sharing insider trips to Trader Joes, updates on plants, pets and kids, and grabbing lunch or coffee when we're in person together!