I’m Michael, Co-Founder and CTO at Formation. If you join our team, we’d get to work together alongside Sophie, Eun Ji, Daniel and the rest of our incredible team everyday.
My quick pitch for this role is that we’re a mighty, tight-knit team of experienced product people, backed by top tier investors (a16z, Kapor Capital, Designer Fund, Lachy Groom and more) looking to fundamentally transform education through product and technology. There are crazy interesting problems to solve every day ranging from extremely complex product experiences (our users spend 20h+ per week on our platform learning) to writing performant ranking algorithms to optimize for learning outcomes.
If you have any questions at all about myself, this role or our company, feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected]. I can’t wait to meet you.
We are on a mission to build a more equitable world by helping people from all backgrounds gain the skills they need to get hired into roles they love.
We are re-inventing education by throwing out the one-size-fits-all curriculum and replacing it with AI that is able to pinpoint personal areas of weakness and dynamically schedule mentorship based on each learner’s performance, calendar availability and unique learning goals.
Our AI platform powers our flagship Engineering Fellowship, helping engineers from non-traditional and historically underrepresented backgrounds get hired at the world’s top tech companies. In 2022, we helped our engineers increase their compensation by an average of over $100K. We have over 400 active engineers on the platform and are growing fast.
🌈 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: In the past decade, our industry has made huge strides in increasing interview opportunities for people from all backgrounds. However, we are still faced with massive disparity when it comes to equal access to high quality training to succeed in those interviews. Formation is here to systemically remove that barrier of entry and build a truly equal society.
❤️ Benefits that show we love you: We are remote-first, unlimited PTO, flexible working hours and health and dental coverage. We also have annual retreats to amazing destinations (Lake Tahoe, Cape Cod, New Orleans to name a few), a flexible learning and development budget, a WFH equipment stipend, and more.
🤑 Well funded by incredible investors: We are lucky to be well funded by an incredible group of investors including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Blumenrose (Designer Fund), Soleio Cuervo (Combine), Lachy Groom, Matt MacInnis (COO at Rippling), Peter Deng (VP at OpenAI), Leif Abraham (CEO at Public.com) and more.
🚀 Crazy ambitious mission: We’re here to solve one of the most challenging missions in the world, one that we fundamentally believe needs to be solved.
💵 Transparent, competitive compensation: We run competitive benchmarking for every role that we hire, and we always target 90%+ of cash + equity compensation (based on our stage) for all roles.
We are a mighty, tight-knit team of team of engineers, educators and world-class product thinkers combining our diverse backgrounds in higher education and scaling massive consumer platforms (Meta, Nextdoor, and Codecademy) to fundamentally transform education.