Tipping Points

Tipping Point Partners is seeking a recent college grad with great social and communication skills for admin/receptionist.

Are you a liberal arts major from a top school? Do you wonder how you’re going love what you do, since you chose to study what you love?

Does everyone rely on you? Are you trusted for your honesty and attention to important details everyone else overlooked?

Do you make people smile? Do you make shy people comfortable? Strangers feel welcome? Acquaintances brought closer? Do you get wallflowers to dance?

Is your instinct to take care of people and their needs? Do you see how small things can have vital importance to someone’s success?

Are you a multi-tasker with a nearly photographic memory, fierce organizational capabilities and an uncanny ability to anticipate what is needed?

Are you interested in working your way up in a high-growth setting?  Tipping Point Partners is seeking an entry-level administrative assistant and receptionist for our 20,000 square foot space, which houses many young technology companies. The role is critically important in allowing us to build our business and set the tone for our company’s social life and internal culture. You would work closely with a supportive, fun-loving and smart team.

You:

·       Self-starter, proficient with communications tools for social media and business

·       Exceptional writing, organizational and caring skills

·       Common sense, limitless curiosity, sense of humor and an appreciation for the absurd

·       You have to love technology and people

The Position:

·       Administrative assistant/receptionist

·       Manage public spaces, set the social tone and make sure the train runs on time

·       Assist with events that connect the firm’s network and enhance the social atmosphere in Tipping Point’s 20,000 SF multi-company space

·       4 weeks paid vacation; health benefits

Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, strategic deal making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time.

INTERESTED?

Send resume, biography, and anything that you think would help us get to know you and what you can do to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com.

Tipping Point Partners is seeking an extraordinary social planner.

Are you the consummate insider? Do your friends look to you as the go-to person for the right introductions, restaurants, events, or styles?

Does everyone rely on you? Are you obsessed with dates and advance planning?  Are you trusted for your honesty and attention to important details everyone else overlooked?

Do social puzzles energize you? Do you love threading the needle of competing schedules, complex agendas, and interesting personalities?

Is organizing the perfect event a great accomplishment? Are you the life of your social circle?

Are you a creator of intimacy and safety? Do you make shy people comfortable? Strangers feel welcome? Acquaintances brought closer? Do you get wallflowers to dance?

Are you wondering how to do it for a living?  Tipping Point Partners is seeking a savvy all-star to cultivate our important connections, plan our meetings and events and help expand our growing business.  You would report directly to the CEO and work in a fun and smart team.

You:

·       Liberal arts major from a top school seeking to grow a career doing what you love

·       Self-starter, proficient with communications tools for social media and business

·       Exceptional analytical, visual, writing, and caring skills

·       Common sense, limitless curiosity, sense of humor and an appreciation for the absurd

·       Multi-tasking fiend with a nearly photographic memory, fierce organizational capabilities, self-correcting, and uncanny anticipation of what’s needed

·       You have to love technology and people

The Position:

·       Social Planner, reporting directly to the CEO

·       Manage the CEO’s schedule, task list and priorities, and relationships

·       Plan events to connect the firm’s network and enhance the social atmosphere in Tipping Point’s 20,000 SF multi-company space

·       Salary commensurate with experience; 4 weeks paid vacation; health benefits

·       Start date: June 14, 2010

Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, strategic deal making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time.

INTERESTED?

By June 11, send resume, biography, and anything else that you think will help us understand you to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com.

Seeking VPE to transform human services technology

Each year, 3.5 million child abuse investigations are reported and 800,000 children are found to be victims of maltreatment.  Technologies that support the country's 80,000 caseworkers in investigations, foster care, and adoption are based on archaic standards. Caseworkers spend 40% or more of their time doing data entry and suffer job dissatisfaction that results in nearly 20% annual turnover rates.  This is inefficient and ineffective.

Case Commons’ mission is to transform public sector human services through technology.  Case Commons enables workers serving the most vulnerable families and children to be more effective and efficient via new software tools. Casebook™, Case Commons’ marquee technology, is a collaborative, family-centered case management system that leverages the capabilities inherent in social networking technology for the public sector child welfare segment. A growing number of policymakers believe that Casebook™ can be a citizen portal for government services, including health, education and human services. Case Commons is funded by the $2.5 billion Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has spent 20 years pursuing human services system reform; since 2007, AECF has been building Casebook™ in partnership with Tipping Point Partners.

DESCRIPTION

·       You will lead the engineering team building Casebook™, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer

·       You will assume a leadership position, revolutionizing technology for people serving less advantaged children and families, with high visibility among government, foundation, venture capital, and business leaders

·       You will work with a unique team that consists of proven domain leaders, successful entrepreneurs who have helped transform other technology market segments, and software developers from Pivotal Labs, the top Ruby on Rails software development consultancy in the world

·       Salaried position in a non-profit organization located in New York City

·       Significant travel – up to 50% of time

REQUIREMENTS

• You have the passion and skills to succeed in a startup: tenacious, self-directed, flexible, strategic but can turn on a dime, able to inspire others and to be inspired
• You go the extra mile
• You spent 10 years in information technology, preferably in application development, application management, and operations within a Fortune 500 company or government organization
• Optional but especially valuable would be experience with government software for human services, such as for AFCARS, IV-E eligibility, and SACWIS
• You have rolled out software to several thousand users within a large organization
• You have 3-5 years of managing small engineering teams (< 25)
• You have delivered software on time and within budget
• You are a student of organizations, familiar with the team structures and processes necessary to handle the full lifecycle of enterprise software (conceptualization, estimation, design, development, piloting, training, deployment, maintenance, customer support, release management, reporting and tracking, sunsetting and migration)
• You have managed vendors for software development, web hosting, and security
• You are familiar with best practices for securing web applications including but not limited to OWASP, security scanning, secure network design
• Your prior work involved sensitive customer data, such as financial information, transactions, HIPAA data, credit cards, or personal health information
• You use and appreciate consumer Internet software, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube and other “Web 2.0” applications
• You have personal or professional Web application projects in Ruby on Rails, LAMP or similar technology stacks
• You are expert in agile development processes, and want to transform software development processes within governments and large organizations
• You like people and enjoy sharing your knowledge: able to translate engineering needs and challenges into plain English verbally and in writing
• You care about people and their success: strong inter-personal and team skills, with active listening abilities and instincts
• You have made mistakes part of your process and know how to create a culture that identifies and surfaces problems early
• You have common sense, limitless curiosity, terrific taste, and an appreciation for the absurd
• You are passionate about our mission

Case Commons and Tipping Point Partners.  Tipping Point Partners has worked on Casebook™ since 2007, leading product development and business functions.  Tipping Point is responsible for building the Case Commons team. 

Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We look for opportunities to create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, strategic deal making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time. Our portfolio has included IGA Worldwide, FashionGPS, Mobile Commons, Cookstr, Rapid Ratings and many others. We achieve the highest and best use for our companies with an agnostic approach to capital sources and huge doses of sweat equity to accelerate development, extend runway and amplify opportunities. 

INTERESTED?

Send resume, biography, and link(s) to project(s) to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com

Seeking Product Manager - Case Commons

Case Commons’ mission is to transform public sector human services through technology.  Case Commons enables workers serving the most vulnerable families and children to be more effective and efficient via new software tools. Casebook™, Case Commons’ marquee technology, is a collaborative, family-centered case management system that leverages the capabilities inherent in social networking technology for the public sector child welfare segment. A growing number of policymakers believe that Casebook™ can be a citizen portal for government services, including health, education and human services. Case Commons is funded by the $2.5 billion Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has spent 20 years pursuing human services system reform; since 2007 AECF has been building Casebook in partnership with Tipping Point Partners.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong desire and skills to succeed in a startup: tenacious, self-directed, flexible, strategic but can turn on a dime, able to inspire others and to be inspired
• Willingness to go the extra mile to make things happen; ability to travel 50% of time
• 2 to 5 years experience as a public sector social worker
• Prefer experience in product management using agile methodologies
• Experience in project management with large projects with multiple streams, complex dependencies and complicated stakeholder ecosystems
• Strong inter-personal and team skills, with active listening abilities and instincts
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, particularly ability to translate complex technical ideas into writing accessible by non-technical readers
• Exceptional analytical, visual, writing, and caring skills
• Common sense, limitless curiosity, terrific taste, and an appreciation for the absurd
• Multi-tasking fiend with a nearly photographic memory or tremendous organizational capabilities
• Nice to have: technical or scientific background; multiple languages; multicultural immersion experiences; actively engaged in social web

DESCRIPTION:

• Title: Product Manager, reporting to Head of Product Development
• Ecosystem: users, administration, domain experts, designers and software engineers from prototype through deployment
• Manage software development and customization, using Case Commons’ agile process
• Responsible for project management: design, scope, budget and quality
• Manage product plan and roadmap
• Produce and edit materials for user design meetings, story breakdown meetings, user tests, community management, and product marketing
• Translate field observations into detailed software development “stories”
• Demonstrate and explain existing product functionality to user community
• Design and conduct user testing
• Collaborate with and provide support to training team

About Tipping Point Partners.  Tipping Point Partners has worked on Casebook since 2007, leading product development and business functions.  Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We look for opportunities to create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, strategic deal making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time. Our portfolio has included IGA Worldwide, FashionGPS, Mobile Commons, Cookstr, Rapid Ratings and many others. We achieve the highest and best use for our companies with an agnostic approach to capital sources and huge doses of sweat equity to accelerate development, extend runway and amplify opportunities. 

INTERESTED?
Send resume, biography, and link(s) to writing samples to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com

Tipping Point Partners is seeking a part-time controller.

Job Opening:  Part-time Controller, Tipping Point Partners

Interested in building Internet startups? We are looking for a part-time Controller to help us manage our financial activities and those of some our younger portfolio companies. We promise make-or-break challenges, thrilling victories, great satisfaction and fun.

REQUIREMENTS:

·       CPA, CFA designations and/or finance or accounting degree

·       2-5 years of working experience in the following areas:

·       budget planning, forecasting and cash management

·       technology startup bookkeeping and accounting

·       not-for-profit bookkeeping and accounting

·       Fearless about technology and asking for help

·       Exceptional analytical, visual, writing, and caring skills

·       Common sense, limitless curiosity, terrific taste, and an appreciation for the absurd

·       Obsessive, detail-oriented person with a passion for simplicity and clarity

·       Process designer who can account for variety within human nature and the law of exceptions

DESCRIPTION

·       Controller, reporting directly to the CEO

·       Part-time, potential to lead to full-time position

·       Review current financial operations and recordkeeping and recommend changes

·       Establish financial management and control processes

·       Look for opportunities to achieve efficiencies, avoid risks and prevent surprises

·       Benefits available

·       Hourly rate, commensurate with experience

Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We look for opportunities to create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, deal-making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time. Our portfolio has included IGA Worldwide, FashionGPS, Mobile Commons, Cookstr, Rapid Ratings and many others. We achieve the highest and best use for our companies with an agnostic approach to capital sources and huge doses of sweat equity to accelerate development, extend runway and amplify opportunities. 

INTERESTED?

Send resume, biography, and a writing sample to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com

Interested in building Internet startups?...

...We are looking for an Analyst.  We promise hard work, awesome obstacles, black diamond learning curve, thrilling victories, great satisfaction and fun.

REQUIREMENTS:

·       2-5 years of working experience

·       Proficient with communications tools for social media and business

·       Web native: actively engaged in social web

·       Fearless about technology, math and asking for help

·       Exceptional analytical, visual, writing, and caring skills

·       Common sense, limitless curiosity, terrific taste, and an appreciation for the absurd

·       Multi-tasking fiend with a nearly photographic memory or tremendous organizational capabilities

·       Nice to have: experience in consulting and/or corporate finance; technical or scientific background; multiple languages; multicultural immersion experiences

DESCRIPTION

·       Analyst, reporting directly to the CEO

·       Assist with communications, including public presentations, Board and investor presentations

·       Perform research

·       Analyze data and quantitative information to create insights into the present and intriguing visions of the future

·       Build relationships with team members, portfolio companies, partners, and prospective portfolio companies

       ·       4 weeks paid vacation

·       Benefits

·       Salary commensurate with experience

Tipping Point builds and renovates Internet-based startups using innovative approaches to solving business model challenges. We look for opportunities to create new businesses that have significant social and/or cultural importance in markets that are ripe for disruption, both for-profit and not.  Since 2005, Tipping Point Partners’ unique approach to startups has included co-founding, interim management, deal-making, financing, investing and strategy, generally all at the same time. Our portfolio has included IGA Worldwide, FashionGPS, Mobile Commons, Cookstr, Rapid Ratings and many others. We achieve the highest and best use for our companies with an agnostic approach to capital sources and huge doses of sweat equity to accelerate development, extend runway and amplify opportunities for our companies. 

INTERESTED?

Send resume, biography, and link(s) to writing samples to art@tippingpointpartners.com, with a copy to christine@tippingpointpartners.com