Operations Lead, NYC Farmers Markets

What we’re making and who we're looking for: >>Permanent’s hiring<<

Operations Lead, NYC

• Onboard all 53 NYC farmers markets onto Permanent. We have the greenlight for this massive opportunity, the resources you’ll need to hire a team and 3PL — we just need you!
• Based elsewhere? Let’s still talk — we’re launching markets around the US soon.

The future food system runs on Permanent

To live permanently on our planet, we need a regenerative, direct, and just food system. But even with overflowing demand for quality farm-direct foods, most buyers are stuck sourcing from the industrial supply chains of the past.

Permanent is the farm-to-market infrastructure under the future food system. Our revolutionary real-time inventory, payments, and logistics network connects the world directly to the source.

• Our mission is to create a world with more life — more life in our fields and communities.
• We’re on-path to transform the world’s $6.1T of food sourcing by:
  1. Enabling people and businesses everywhere to buy directly from farms, unlocking vastly superior quality (harvested to order!) and better prices.
  2. Elevating regenerative outcomes in every sourcing decision, making regenerative agriculture profitable and scalable beyond passion alone.
  3. Networking food inventory and logistics across a region, unlocking economies of scale while decentralising our food system.
• Traction
  • Last year, we moved >$1.5M GMV and saved New York's top organic farmer >$100K. This year, we’re growing 24% MoM (that’s >10X per year).
  • You can see the buyer-facing side of our V1 here.
  • We recently raised an extraordinarily strong seed round.
• Team
  • Hey, I’m Wiley. I’ve found my spirituality in nature and my career in fintech, last designing an app called Even that moved >$1B/year. I started Permanent after a year of living on 3 farms and spending deep time with >70 farmers. Now, we’re weaving these two worlds together— aligning our economy with ecology.
  • Our cofounder and CTO created the expansive farm-to-market platform and deep relationships Permanent’s built on today.
  • Another founding team member founded and scaled a prominent fintech company to hundreds of employees and billions in valuation.
  • It’s extraordinary, as if by magic — our mission just keeps attracting the most world-class, most world-healing teammates, investors, and advisors. We’ll grow to ~12 people this year and ~40 people by end of next year.

You’ll thrive here if

• You want to make a dent in one of the biggest questions of our generation: how to align economy and ecology.
• You’re tired of business as usual. You want to be a leader in the new story.
• You want a thriving planet—a world more alive. You think more holistically than $, kWh, or CO2. You want to impact biodiversity, water cycles, food culture, social equity, and more.
• You love the soulfulness and pleasure of food. Even though healing our broken food system is serious work — literally necessary for humanity’s survival — it’s delicious and fun, too.
• You’re a non-linear person. You want a team who challenges you, with loving intensity, to be more you. You’re ready to grow faster than you ever have before.

All roles receive

• Top 75% compensation. And $M’s of equity upsides—you’re working on an opportunity that’s as big as the food system itself, after all.
• Top 75% benefits. And $K’s of stipends for your non-linear growth as a whole person.
• Top 99% quarterly off-sites. Wildly delicious, meaningful time with your teammates & customers, hosted at the most innovative and beautiful farms in the country.
• All roles are remote-first. Every team member is expected to engage meaningfully with their own regional food system, but you choose how.
• All roles are senior or lead++ (on average, we expect 5+ yrs experience). At our early stage, you’ll bring a mix of founder’s mindset, sleeves-up IC work, and lead major initiatives.
• We help farmers diversify crops & buyers, buyers diversify diets & suppliers, and food systems diversify distribution & equity. Diversity is literally our business, and a diverse team is critical.

For more, read: >>Permanent’s hiring<<