Operations Manager

Location: Austin, TX

Reports to: Corvas Brinkerhoff, Founder and CEO‍

Employment Type: Full-time, hybrid (remote/in person)

Location: Candidate must reside in Austin, TX, or the surrounding area.

Salary: 60K-80K with meaningful equity 

Benefits: A comprehensive health benefits program through an Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA)

Application Deadline: Open until filled

Submersive is seeking someone with a Bachelors Degree and 1+ years of highly proactive, fast-learning, detail-oriented, high-producing business experience to support Submersive’s C-suite. Submersive wants to invest in a driven, hardworking and self-motivated employee who is hungry to learn. This role is like a COO-in-training and involves managing tasks across disciplines - property development, product, marketing, finance, recruiting, administrative, and strategy. 

What is Submersive?

Guided by visionary founder and CEO Corvas Brinkeroff, co-founder of immersive arts and entertainment phenomenon Meow Wolf, Submersive is redefining immersive experience and wellness industries to a new category: Immersive Wellness.  Our debut location in Austin, TX will blend ancient bathhouse tradition - sauna, steam, hot and cold pools - with cutting-edge neuroscience, immersive art, and interactive light, sound and video technology.  These explorable, otherworldly spaces will be designed to create measurable mental and physical state change [or as gateway to elevated states of being], leading participants through feelings of awe, euphoria, and profound connection – both with oneself and others. Based on existing scientific studies, Submersive believes that multisensory environments fusing art, science, and wellness will deliver users beyond relaxation into moments of genuine transcendence.

Why Join Submersive?

• Be Part of Innovation: Join a small, potent team shaping the future of wellness and immersive experience through a creative project that blends art, science, and wellness. 
• Collaborative Culture: Work alongside passionate and creative minds in a collaborative and supportive environment where your ideas are valued. We inspire each other and push the boundaries of what's possible.
• Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits designed to support your well-being, including health, dental, and vision insurance, as well as generous paid time off to recharge and rejuvenate.
• Career Growth: Take advantage of professional development opportunities tailored to your aspirations. Whether through workshops, mentorship, or hands-on experience, we’re committed to helping you grow both personally and professionally.  And, joining Submersive at this juncture, in its early years, means more possibility for upward mobility sooner if performance impresses.
• Unique Work Environment: We encourage creativity, innovation, and wellness in the work process. Taking the time so you show-up with a centered and clear mind is important, as is ensuring your life continues to have space for inspiration and personal growth. 
• Flexible Schedule: Work a hybrid (remote and in-person) and flexible schedule. 
• Make a Difference: Play a vital role in designing transformative experiences that impact lives. Your contributions will support people to explore awe, wonder, and deep connection.

Role Responsibilities

• Prepare and edit presentations, reports, and correspondences. 
• Initiate meetings with top industry executives and investors, and then capture and share key takeaways to the team.
• Manage project workflows: coordinating tasks, tracking and following-up on deadlines, and ensuring smooth communication internally and externally.
• Conduct research projects. For example, digging into a variety of alternative debt products potentially available to Submersive; engaging professionals on Reddit to find clever ways at engineering ventilation in certain spaces; locating other experiential projects and their real estate teams.
• Support special projects, working independently or collaboratively. For example, recruiting new talents, and generating decks for various presentations and pitches. 
• Support financial processes like expense reporting and budget tracking.
• Optimize workflows by assessing current SAAS and AI platforms and researching, reviewing, and implementing new, potential SAAS and AI platforms..
• Tackle administrative tasks (e.g., organizing Google Drive, booking tickets, scheduling).
• Develop clear and concise standard operating procedures for key processes.
• Oversee team Virtual Assistant who manages schedules, travel coordination and other administrative tasks.

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Desired Traits and Skills 

• Detail-oriented and organized with excellent effective time management, and follow-through.
• Persistent, proactive and resourceful with a “figure it out” mindset, a knack for creative problem-solving, and ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities. 
  • Examples: wait 2 hours instead of 2 days to follow-up an unanswered phone; find the contact info and set a meeting with the VP of a business if consistently running into dead-ends with the CEO; have doubt about a $10k software product our insurer recommends and naturally call peers and others for trusted recommendations and alternative solutions.
• Accountable, self-aware, and eager to grow through feedback. You ask for support when needed, are quick to take responsibility for mistakes, and change so that you don’t make mistakes multiple times.
• Kind, ethical, and inspiring to work with.
• Excited by steep learning curves and passionate about sharing knowledge - we’re always learning new business strategies, new industry insights, and new ways of showing up in the world.
• Strong alignment with our core values: Creativity & Innovation, Authenticity & Kindness, and Impact & Generativity.

Apply now through the link below! If you have questions, reach out to courtney@getsubmersive.com.  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

Join us in shaping the future of immersive, therapeutic experiences