Director, Networks, Redemptive Imagination Project

About Praxis

Praxis began in 2011 with a desire to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs and has grown into a venture-building ecosystem with a redemptive imagination, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time. Our work as an organization is to build a community of practice around the ideas of redemptive entrepreneurship, work that is powered by an incredible team of builders and operators. At the heart of Praxis' ecosystem are our efforts to facilitate redemptive outcomes across our community of funders, mentors, entrepreneurs — many of whom are founders in our portfolio, mentors in our Accelerators, and participants in our annual Summit gathering. As the Praxis community has grown over the past 14 years, we continue to need excellent operators and builders to connect and support our community in their pursuit of redemptive work.

About the Project

The Redemptive Imagination Project is one of the most important – and ambitious – efforts Praxis has pursued. We are launching a multigenerational initiative to awaken the creative and prophetic contributions of the church on the major issues of our time. 

As a network of humble and ambitious founders, builders, thinkers, funders, and ecosystem leaders, the Praxis community is well-positioned to support the global church on the redemptive edge of its contributions to address what’s broken in our world with opportunities for healing and flourishing. 

The project aims to awaken the redemptive imagination of Christians worldwide by identifying the major issues our community works on, developing redemptive theses and storytelling that galvanize the global church to respond creatively, building the required networks to make a difference on each issue, and launching and growing ventures that can confound the status quo as exemplars and show a better way forward.

For more on the project, watch this video from Evan Feinberg, our Partner for the Redemptive Imagination Project. 

About the Role

This project leadership and issue-based ecosystem building role will report to the Partner leading Redemptive Imagination Project and work directly with Praxis community members to organize around Praxis’ 30+ “Opportunities for Redemptive Imagination (ORI). Each ORI will include developing a clear, prophetic “Redemptive Thesis,” developing networks of builders, funders, and thinkers who can influence the issue, and organizing venture-building activities such as requests for start-ups, entrepreneurs in-residence, and significant opportunities to scale existing ventures through our community.

Our vision for the The Director, Networks role is to serve as a project leader for each of the individual ORI Networks. They will organize “ORI Leads” (1-3 Praxis community members that will be selected to lead our work on each issue). They will support our ORI leads in building a broader leadership group (approximately 12 people) and cultivate broader ORI participation from our community.

We hope that this person will take a project mindset into managing each ORI – supporting ORI leads and their networks with project and operational support and manage the networks toward meaningful outcomes.  

Candidates should have a deep interest in creative problem-solving, community development, and project management, with a passion for applying a redemptive mindset to through specialized initiatives. The ideal candidate will have led organizations or initiatives with significant and transformative aspirations. 

In short, we're looking for someone who can build and improve upon systems for our expanding portfolio of issue-specific work with excellence, innovation, and passion for our mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship.

Key Areas of Work

• Work with the Partner for the Praxis Redemptive Imagination Project to develop and manage issue-specific projects, scaling from 4 mature issue-based projects to 20-30 over the next few years.
• Organize, support, and lead a decentralized ecosystem of “ORI Leads” from within the Praxis community — community members with specific assignment within the Praxis network to take a leadership role on our Opportunities for Redemptive Imagination. 
• Develop strategies to regularly communicate the work of the ORIs to Praxis capital partners, finding ways to connect imaginative capital to the projects.
• Manage CRM systems for each ORI project, event, thesis creation, and venture development initiative, maintaining comprehensive data across the expanding portfolio of issue-based ecosystems.
• Over time, this person will likely be asked to build a team and manage the operations of all of our ORI projects. 

Ideal Prior Experiences

We are interested in a diversity of past experiences in this role. An ideal candidate may have led a major initiative or helped support the development of multiple initiatives. Prior experience could include helping build a complex startup in an operations role, senior project or portfolio management work with executives, coalition or campaign development, or other movement-oriented strategy and execution that could be relevant to the redemptive imagination project at Praxis. Special consideration will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership ability – whether leading organizations, coalitions, or other efforts through direct authority or influence. 

Additional Details

Location: New York, NY // Praxis Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. Remote employees will be considered given the ability to travel regularly to participate in HQ activities. 

Travel: 30–50 days annually for events and gatherings outside NYC (all business travel covered). Includes quarterly NYC team meetings, Studio events at HQ, and the annual Summit in Napa Valley, CA. All travel expenses covered by Praxis.

Reports to: Partner, Praxis, Redemptive Imagination Project

Compensation & Title:

• Salary Range for the Director role is $115K - 155K based on experience
• For all Praxis roles, we are open to candidates who are ‘outside of range’. That is to say, growth-minded applicants at an earlier stage of career and comp, or candidates with experience above the highest end of the job description and compensation range, are welcome & encouraged to apply. 
• Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families
• 5% matching 401k
• Flexible vacation policy

Cultural Alignment:

Praxis finds its theological identity most clearly stated in the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Cape Town Commitment (2010). All Praxis staff and program participants are asked to affirm The Apostles’ Creed as a statement of their own beliefs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate alignment with the above, as well as our mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship. We're seeking a leader who combines operational excellence with a spirit of humility and service, contributing to our vision of building an organization that embodies redemptive principles in all aspects of its work and culture, which includes shared rhythms such as daily team prayer and a company-wide weekly Sabbath, as detailed in our Rule of Life for Redemptive Entrepreneurs (rule.praxislabs.org).