Rubicon is looking for a few (3) excellent leaders

We’ve got 3 interesting roles to add to our Rubicon (actually our current company is called Rubicon, and we’re creating a new company we affectionately called Rubicon TNG until we name it more formally). We’re ready to hire some leaders who want to co-own and co-build a business that enables transformative outcomes. We wanted to ask you, our community to help us get the word out on it.

1. Leader of a Training Division.
2. Leader of Consultations
3. Principal, Internet Markets

Leader of Training Division

You love training — the ability to teach and transform people, companies, and their business strategies. You know what’s needed to build a training company from the ground up. You’re up to date on all of the new training techniques and programs, but more importantly you are very good at taking ideas already developed, engaging the right people, and building them into a viable business.

You have heavy, hands-on experience in the training business. You understand how training companies actually work, including how to successfully build a profitable training model using contract employees. Based on your experience, you can quickly and effectively adapt a great methodology into a scalable workshop and training program.

This is your chance to build a nationwide training institution. As the VP Training at Rubicon Consulting, you’ll be the central player in building one of the nation’s best training businesses, based on the methodologies and strategies espoused in the popular business book “The New How.” You’ll work with the author and other principals in Rubicon Consulting to translate these incredible methodologies into scalable workshops and coursework that transform careers and companies.

The successful candidate will have the following background:

• Successfully developed a training and workshop curriculum from existing IP


• Built and trained a team of quality trainers & facilitators


• Created and delivered “Train the trainer” programs


• Grown a national training sales pipeline, including closing significant business


• Used contractors to form an expanded “virtual” national organization


• Created a respected training “brand”


• Have demonstrated excellence as a trainer in your own right


• Engaging public speaker


• Experience successfully setting up & handling national logistics


• Work well independently (self-starter) while maintaining alignment with organizational goals


• Understand how to successfully manage tight budgets and a P&L

Qualifications:

• BA/BS, with MBA preferred


• 7-10 years experience building, managing, selling & delivering training and/or consulting programs & workshops


• Experience marketing & selling to mid-large corporations


• Self-starter


• Entrepreneurial and a desire to co-own, co-build a company.


• 25%-40% Travel required

If this description fits you, send us your resume and a brief cover note explaining why you’re the ideal training leader for Rubicon training. Email stuff to Catherine at Rubiconconsulting dot com. Be sure to let us know you want to be considered for the TRAINING role.

Leader of Consultations

You excel at group problem-solving and interpersonal communications. You can quickly size up the dynamics of a workgroup and the personalities in it, get them engaged, extract the best ideas from every person, and bring them all to consensus.

You’re an experienced Silicon Valley manager who has a deep understanding of the strategy and execution problems that Valley companies typically run into. So you can talk issues with anyone. But where you really stand out is your ability to bring a group together, get them on the same page, and help them lead themselves.

As the leader of consultations for Rubicon Consulting, you’ll organize and facilitate one-day consulting engagements in which you help workgroups solve their own business strategy problems, based on the principles in the successful new business book The New How. Working from opportunities identified by Rubicon CEO and New How author Nilofer Merchant, you’ll manage everything from defining the engagements, to arranging and leading the work sessions, to advising client managers privately on outcomes and next steps.

The successful candidate’s background will include:

• Outstanding, proven group facilitation skills, with a long track record of success in that area.


• The intuitive ability to “read” the personalities and attitudes of a group of people.


• Excellent business strategy skills. You need to be able to rapidly come up to speed on a company’s issues and its sector of the industry, enabling you to understand their issues and language.


• At least eight years’ work experience in Silicon Valley companies, in relevant hands-on roles. You could be in line management, you could be in a support role like HR; what we’re looking for is a passion for group problem solving paired with outstanding organizational skills and seasoned experience.

If this description fits you, send us your resume and a brief cover note explaining why you’re the ideal consultations leader for Rubicon. Email stuff to Catherine at Rubiconconsulting dot com. Be sure to let us know you want to be considered for the CONSULTATIONS role.

Principal, Internet Industry

You are obsessed by the Internet as an industry — the companies, the business strategies, the services, and the changes they’re making in customers’ lives. You know what drives the key players, their cultures, mindsets, how they behave, and what they’re likely to do next. You’re up to date on what’s new, but more importantly you are very good at separating meaningful change from whatever’s being hyped at the moment.

You have heavy, hands-on experience in the Internet industry. You understand how the companies actually work, not just what they say they’ll do. Based on your experience, you have a well developed ability to anticipate what will happen next. You could tell Yahoo how to win in search, or help MySpace rescue itself from creeping irrelevance — if only they’d listen to you.

This is your chance to make them listen. As a principal at Rubicon Consulting, you’ll be a key thought leader in one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest strategy firms. You’ll work with other deeply experienced Valley veterans who add value to your thinking and push you to do even better work than you thought you could. You’ll influence senior executives at many of the Valley’s top firms and hottest startups, helping shape their strategies and investment plans.

Successful candidates will have the following background:

• Extensive business and people management experience at multiple Internet/web firms. We’re looking for experienced, hands-on, practical managers who have driven meaningful successes and noble failures, and have learned from all of them.


• A desire to apply their experience across multiple firms, focusing their time on breakthrough ideas and strategies rather than people management. We’re more interested in a line manager who wants to move into consulting than a consultant who has a smattering of line experience.


• Outstanding verbal and presentation skills. (By outstanding, we mean you talk like Larry King and present like Barack Obama.)


• The ability to drive projects independently but also collaborate on ideas with a group of strong-minded thinkers.


• Outstanding political awareness. You need to be able to read a company’s personality and figure out the best way to influence it, even if that means you don’t get the credit for your ideas. We’re a results-focused consultancy that partners with companies, not the sort of firm that gives a speech or dumps a report and then walks away.


• The idea of influencing excites you more than the idea of analyzing.


• Minimum 10 years of tech industry experience.

If this description makes you drool, you should wipe your chin and then send us your resume and a brief cover note explaining why you’re the ideal next principal at Rubicon. Same email as before Catherine at Rubiconconsulting dot com.

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