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Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation.

Through our four-pronged approach, we catalyze long-term change through our community development, revolutionary training and employment program, an innovative financing model, and sustained career support.

Our team is at the heart of everything we do—and if our work speaks to you, we encourage you to apply! We are building a world-class team full of dynamic, ambitious, hard workers who genuinely care about economic opportunity.

Make a direct impact on our Fellows, their families, and our community.

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Benefits & Perks

  • Mission-Driven Team
    Our team comes to us from a range of different professional backgrounds. You'll get to work alongside experts in workforce development, tech, impact, policy, operations, and many other fields. The one thing we all have in common? A shared passion for creating transformation.

  • Impact
    Your work will make a direct impact on our Fellows, their families, and our community. You will help create greater change by tackling systemic issues preventing low-income Americans from gaining meaningful jobs.

  • Pursuit Values Diversity
    We prioritize the richness of diversity across all categories. We welcome new perspectives and make employment decisions without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal-opportunity employer.

  • Premium Health Benefits
    We offer premium health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family. Our comprehensive health package offers different plans to match your needs. We also offer memberships for virtual care and mental health platforms, as well as health clubs and fitness classes.

  • Financial Wellness and 401k
    We support you in planning for your future and retirement. Our 401k plan has a robust employer matching program. Additionally, we provide pre-tax commuter benefits, flexible spending, and health savings accounts.

  • Flexible Vacation, PTO,
and Parental Leave
    We work hard at Pursuit, and we believe it’s important for everyone to have time to rest and recharge as needed. Our unlimited PTO policy will help you take that time so that you can do your best work. We also offer flexible parental leave for the new parents on our team.

  • Best-in-class partners
    Working at Pursuit will elevate your network and accelerate your career growth. You'll meet and work with some of the best companies, funders, and employers in the industry.

  • Where We Work
    Our One Big Team is operating with a hybrid work approach in our office space in Long Island City. We’ve made updates to our office to provide maximum comfort, flexibility, and safety. On days that staff works in the office, we do group lunches, host happy hours, and get together for game nights.

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Cur­rent Op­por­tu­ni­ties

  • Development
  • Operations
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Development
Data & AI Systems Manager
Pursuit is hiring a Data & Systems Manager to help shape how we use data and build infrastructure as an AI-native organization. This is a proactive, high-ownership role: you won't just keep systems running, you'll help define the data and governance foundation Pursuit needs to function as an AI Native org. You'll partner closely with our Head of AI Strategy & Transformation to turn messy, cross-functional problems into systems that scale — architecting how our CRM, data dictionary, and internal tools connect and grow as both people and AI depend on them. This role is ideal for someone with an early-to-mid-career data background who wants to help build the infrastructure layer of an AI-native organization.
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Operations
Chief Strategy and Growth Officer
Pursuit is seeking a Chief Strategy and Growth Officer (CSGO) to serve as a pivotal architect of our next chapter of scale. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CSGO will help shape enterprise strategy, building a comprehensive roadmap for enterprise growth, expanding our proven core model to a broader population, and aggressively exploring, testing, and scaling new delivery and partnership models to support closing the AI skills gap at scale.
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Chief Operating Officer
As Pursuit scales its AI-Native workforce model and launches in early 2027 the New York AI Jobs Institute (AIJI)—our new premier NYC institute backed by $13M in public funding to unite leaders across government, industry, and education to train millions of residents for AI careers—we are strengthening our operational infrastructure to match our accelerating impact. We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to serve as our chief architect of operational excellence. Reporting directly to the CEO, this leader will be a central pillar of the executive leadership team, driving strategic decision-making and actively shaping the future of Pursuit's training programs and job placement initiatives. While managing the finance, operations, and people functions, they will architect the foundational systems required to scale our mission and impact.
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Partnerships & Business Development
Strategy & Operations Associate
We are looking for a contract Strategy and Operations Associate to work closely with Pursuit’s CEO as a strategic right hand in developing core expansion plans for the organization. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to growth strategy, market expansion, and financing approaches at one of the most innovative nonprofits in the country.
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Community Development & Recruitment Associate
Our programs have grown through deep community trust, strong partnerships, and operational excellence. We're looking for a Community Development Associate who will take ownership of the day-to-day recruitment funnel - leading information sessions and workshops, obsessing over applicant volume and conversion at every stage, and making sure every prospective Builder has an amazing experience from first contact through enrollment.
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Community Development & Partnership Associate
Our programs have grown through deep community trust, strong partnerships, and operational excellence. We're looking for a Community Development Associate who will take ownership of top-of-funnel lead generation - building and managing relationships with community-based organizations (CBOs), driving paid marketing and referral channels, and obsessing over applicant volume at the very top of the funnel.
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Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
Pursuit is hiring a Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships to join our External Affairs team at a pivotal moment of growth.
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Founding Account Executive, AI Talent Placement
Reporting at first directly to the CEO, Pursuit is seeking an entrepreneurial, hands-on Founding Account Executive for our AI Talent Placement team to manage and land placements of Pursuit’s AI Trained builders into full-time roles at a wide range of employer accounts.
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Talent
Vice President of People
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Training and Programming
Career Coach
Pursuit is hiring a Career Coach to guide Builders through one of the highest-stakes phases of their journey: the job search. This role owns a single core outcome — Builders getting hired — and does whatever it takes within that mandate: coaching networks and search strategy, sharpening how Builders present themselves, and pushing continuously on what "job-ready" means in a fast-changing market. This isn't a support function; you are accountable for the placement outcome itself.
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AI Learning Experience Lead
Pursuit is hiring an AI Learning Experience Lead to keep sharpening the learning experience across our AI-native programs — refining the curriculum, experience, and community that our facilitators deliver, as new technologies, market feedback, and learning outcomes point the way.
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Vice President of Programs & Training
As AI reshapes the global economy, workforce development stands at a historic inflection point. Pursuit is seeking a visionary, outcomes-obsessed Vice President of Program and Training (VPPT) to lead and scale our groundbreaking AI-native training program. This role offers an unprecedented platform to architect workforce strategy, expand a proven economic mobility engine, and build the foundation for the upcoming AI Jobs Institute to serve thousands of Builders. Reporting to the CEO, the VPPT will serve as the chief architect and operator of the training and job readiness lifecycle. You will have end-to-end ownership across recruitment, community partnerships, persistence, AI-driven curriculum, and candidate-side job readiness. Leading a rapidly expanding multidisciplinary team, you will combine private-sector operational rigor with a deep commitment to human flourishing.
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