Careers at Fearless Guides
Interested in joining the team at Fearless Guides? We believe that thriving people make thriving organizations. Through community, people, and organizational enablement, Fearless Guides aims to improve outcomes and lives. We help teams identify issues, optimize flows, and adopt new behaviors. And we empower leaders to be effective in their roles, optimizing strategies and breaking down silos.
Benefits
Extreme flexibility
We believe work should enable our team members’ lives, not be our lives. Each of us is on our own journey for a meaningful life, and we hope our org supports that. As such, we seek to create a great amount of flexibility in how we operate.
32-hour work weeks
We operate on a 32-hour work-week model, but we don’t dictate when you work those 32 hours except for our agreed-upon shared spaces including virtual office "Team Time" and team-wide events.
Remote work across the world
Our team is fully remote, with some occasional travel required for client projects and internal connection. Fearless’ headquarters is in downtown Baltimore and is available for team member use.
Open positions
Executive Assistant to the President
Now Hiring
The Executive Assistant to the President will make the most impact at Fearless by providing exceptional administrative support to the President of our company. The ideal candidate should have exceptional communication skills, be highly motivated, and be able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Their skill set is critical to our work because they are adept at organizing, prioritizing, tracking, and managing workflows.
Who we are looking for:
Must Have:
Meticulous You create effective, efficient, and prioritized work and contingency plans.
Savvy: You understand resource requirements and plan accordingly to leverage resources to accomplish tasks.
Strategic: You effectively prioritize choices and actions and demonstrate good judgment in handling situations with various available information, degrees of ambiguity, and time sensitivity.
Analytical: You consider several perspectives, including internal and external contexts, to identify the pros, cons, and implications of potential choices.
Potential challenge areas:
Below are the potential challenges someone might face in this role:
Prioritization: You will be challenged to prioritize and communicate priorities in a people-centered way.
Critical Feedback: You will be challenged to say “No,” in a way that makes people feel good.
Global team: You will be challenged to obtain responsiveness on urgent matters from a global team to move something forward.
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Organizational Consultant (Guide)
Now Hiring
The purpose of the Guide role is to help our clients (both the org and their people) thrive by delivering transformative services within their context.
We are seeking to bring on new Guides who have experience in the National Security space with organizational development, people development, or change management expertise.
Who we are looking for:
Must Have:
Consultant Mindset & Skillset: we have the privilege of playing an advisory role to our client, and as such need to be able to quickly become a trusted advisor. We want someone who has demonstrated an ability to do so and feels confident explaining how they’d do it again.
Passion for the Customer’s Mission: our client’s work is incredibly important to national security, and we are looking for someone who is passionate about this mission and who has some working knowledge of the Department of Defense language, organizational structure, and systems and processes.
Not Afraid to Get Your Hands Dirty: our consultants are more than consultants. They are guides - who not only advise, but also manage and model for the client what could be. We want someone who is willing to not just say, but also show and do what is necessary for the success of the project and the mission.
Ideal Candidates Will Have:
Deep Org Dev Expertise: experience and expertise, including certifications, in organizational development practices such as change management, strategy, operational excellence, and/or culture transformation.
Digital Transformation Expertise: experience leading IT modernization and/or transformation efforts, ideally within a large, bureaucratic organization with hundreds of team members and multiple end-users and stakeholders.
Air Force or Cyber Defense Experience inside the DoD: experience and expertise working with or inside the USAF or within the cyber defense industry within the government specifically.
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Content Designer & Learning Strategist
Now Hiring
The Content Designer & Learning Strategist will be responsible for collaborating with client guides, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to design and develop curriculum materials that meet the needs of our products and our clients. They are in charge of contextualizing Fearless content and services to uniquely fit the client’s needs and environment. This individual works closely with the Guides and Guides Delivery Manager to ensure the client receives services that align to their unique needs and context.
Who we are looking for:
Ideal Candidates Will Have:
A strong understanding of writing, storytelling, and visual design, and can work collaboratively with stakeholders across the organization.
Your skill set is critical to our work because you strive to continuously develop and better yourself, your teams, and your organization.
Responsibilities:
Content Design & Development
- Create, update, and finalize content assets (decks, guides, toolkits, templates, visuals) with input from Guides, team members, and clients.
- Ensure all client-facing deliverables are timely, high-quality, and reflect the Fearless brand, aiming to delight clients.
- Provide user-friendly guides for all deliverables to ensure sustainability beyond the contract.
- Maintain high project management standards to meet timelines and content processes.
Curriculum Design & Learning Strategy
- Collaborate with Guides and team members to design scalable training solutions tailored to client needs.
- Develop design concepts and storyboards for training courses and materials, working closely with Guides and Subject Matter Experts.
- Analyze feedback to continuously improve services and curriculum.
- Lead collaborative processes with the project team and external Subject Matter Experts to enhance services.
- Ensure projects meet timelines and content development processes.