Startup Positions and Opportunities

TIPSY PITCHES - CALL FOR PRESENTERS

All are welcome to participate in Pittsburgh's first ever Tipsy Pitches Competition, an open-mic night for entrepreneurs to be held on October 9, 2019. Come pitch your best or worst ideas, or just support your friends and watch all of the entertaining pitches!

If you've ever had an idea that you were convinced would be the greatest or the absolute worst, but never invested the effort into developing a pitch, this event is for you. Use your creative talents and pitching skills to share silly, entertaining business ideas.

Find out more and register.

ALPHALAB GEAR HARDWARE TEAR DOWNS ON OCTOBER 10 AND OCTOBER 15, 2019

Calling all makers, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, students and hardware enthusiasts! Head to AlphaLab Gear for a Hardware TearDown. Tear apart a product, see how it's made and pitch improvements to the founder. There are two opportunities to participate: October 10 and October 15 at 5-8 pm at AlphaLab Gear. Free & open to the public. Food, drinks and prizes!

Find out more and register. Email questions to Cole Wolfson at cwolfson@alphalabgear.org.

OPTUM STARTUP STUDIO OFFERS FUNDING AND SPACE FOR CMU STARTUPS

The CMU Swartz Center and CMU's Corporate Startup Lab have partnered with the newly launched Optum Startup Studio . Optum is seeking early-stage startups focused in the healthcare Industry with innovative and transformative product offerings in Care Delivery, Remote Patient Monitoring, Telemedicine and Population Management. Optum will invest $50K and provide office space next to Carnegie Mellon University's campus, industry resources and expertise for the startups selected.

If you have a startup in the above categories apply today!

VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES OPPORTUNITY AT HONEYCOMB CREDIT

Honeycomb Credit is a well funded CMU startup in Pittsburgh that allows locally owned small businesses to grow by activating their communities through crowdfunded loans sourced from their customers and fans. The company is hiring a Vice President of Sales to build and manage its sales team in Pittsburgh, PA and across the country. This position will be responsible for all aspects of the sales process, determine effective ways to reach small business owners and scale the sales team.

Find out more and apply.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY WITH FINTECH COMPANY

Troutwood, a fintech company operating out of CMU's Swartz Center, is reviewing internship candidates for a web developer position.

Responsibilities include:

• Help implement and maintain a user-friendly web application
• Assist with maintaining/updating client websites
• Design and build new interactive web-based tools
• Debug and troubleshoot functionality and web broser issues
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

A portfolio of previous work is required.

Find out more (pdf). Submit questions and letters of interest by October 1, 2019 to gene.natali@troutwood.com.

LOOKING FOR A VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY? NIGHT OWL BAKERS NEEDS YOU!

Night Owl Bakers(NOB) is officially gearing up for another season of baking! Meetings take place on Saturdays from 9am-4:30pm at Propel’s Community Wellness Center on the Northside of Pittsburgh.

Volunteers are needed with expertise in a variety of fields, including: architecture, product and communication design, kitchen and financial literacy, business and storytelling!

Come mentor a growing group of young entrepreneurs and creative thinkers. Any amount of time would be greatly appreciated, but we’re specifically looking for individuals who have two hour segments available on Saturdays. By inviting you to be a part of the Night Owl Bakers experience, we are continuing and expanding the thread of community engagement and mentorship that has become a vital part of our program.

Email nightowlbakers@gmail.com if interested.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITH PITTSBURGH STARTUPS

Interested in working for a startup? Apply for job or internship opportunities from startups that are working with Pittsburgh's Innovation Works, AlphaLab or AlphaLab Gear.