Careers

Join Polymath or one of our ventures for the challenge of a lifetime

Are you ready to build incredible companies?

Polymath brings together the best and brightest from all over the world to build impactful companies in Latin America. Why should you join us? You should join if you’re looking to build great companies with exceptional people, using tested entrepreneurial methodologies. We welcome disciplines of all kinds — as long as you’re ready for a huge challenge. Come on, join us!

How it works

There are three basic ways to become part of our team

Polymath
team member
Polymath is an international group of talented, interesting, passionate people. Our team members focus not only on building the Polymath organization, but also on building our ventures, with many team members rotating every 9-15 months to high-impact operating and leadership roles in ventures.
Founder
of a venture
Each venture is led by 2-3 senior (8+ years of experience) founding members. Founders join at the inception of the venture and form the foundation for the team, culture and performance of the company. Founders take ownership of the venture and make it their own.
Venture
team member
Exceptional talent is core to every venture’s success. Being a venture team member means joining a passionate team of an early-stage company and taking substantial responsibility for its performance. We look for bright operators at every level, with a strong passion for entrepreneurship.

Polymath is an international group of talented, interesting, passionate people. Our team members focus not only on building the Polymath organization, but also on building our ventures, with many team members rotating every 9-15 months to high-impact operating and leadership roles in ventures.

Each venture is led by 2-3 senior (8+ years of experience) founding members. Founders join at the inception of the venture and form the foundation for the team, culture and performance of the company. Founders take ownership of the venture and make it their own.

Exceptional talent is core to every venture’s success. Being a venture team member means joining a passionate team of an early-stage company and taking substantial responsibility for its performance. We look for bright operators at every level, with a strong passion for entrepreneurship.

What we promise you

Working at Polymath gives you a lot of benefits, here are a few

Entrepreneurship at the highest level
In order to drastically increase the likelihood of entrepreneurial success, you need to build intelligently. Polymath has built its own methodology for company design and acceleration, using principles pulled from the worlds of human-centered design, lean and agile ops, and management consulting. We offer you full access to entrepreneurial methodologies at the highest level.
Your greatest challenge
What we do is downright difficult. Building anything of quality from scratch is hard, but building high-impact startup ventures in an emerging market brings the challenge to an entirely new level. You’ll find yourself in the midst of this challenge, where learning curves are steep, uncertainty is the norm, and boredom and complacency don’t exist.
The strongest most diverse team
We know that a huge amount of learning and enjoyment comes from the people around you. With a bar set high, you’ll find a group of exceptional people to build with and learn from. And it’s not just about smarts. We bring values-driven people, with diverse experiences, from all over the world (15 countries represented at the moment)!
Personal and Professional Development
We offer you the opportunity to grow tremendously in challenging roles that balance ample support with a strong share of autonomy. You’ll gain knowledge and skills through formal training and mentorship, while responsibilities — typically exceeding your experience level both in breadth and difficulty — will push you to develop in many directions, on a daily basis.
Don’t forget about FUN!
We take our work seriously...but not always ourselves. We offer you a work hard - play hard culture, filled with as many laughs as post-it notes on the walls. We think you’ll be surprised by how close people in Polymath become, how much salsa we end up dancing to, and how many adventures - in and out of the office, that we enjoy together.

In order to drastically increase the likelihood of entrepreneurial success, you need to build intelligently. Polymath has built its own methodology for company design and acceleration, using principles pulled from the worlds of human-centered design, lean and agile ops, and management consulting. We offer you full access to entrepreneurial methodologies at the highest level.

What we do is downright difficult. Building anything of quality from scratch is hard, but building high-impact startup ventures in an emerging market brings the challenge to an entirely new level. You’ll find yourself in the midst of this challenge, where learning curves are steep, uncertainty is the norm, and boredom and complacency don’t exist.

We know that a huge amount of learning and enjoyment comes from the people around you. With a bar set high, you’ll find a group of exceptional people to build with and learn from. And it’s not just about smarts. We bring values-driven people, with diverse experiences, from all over the world (15 countries represented at the moment)!

We offer you the opportunity to grow tremendously in challenging roles that balance ample support with a strong share of autonomy. You’ll gain knowledge and skills through formal training and mentorship, while responsibilities — typically exceeding your experience level both in breadth and difficulty — will push you to develop in many directions, on a daily basis.

We take our work seriously...but not always ourselves. We offer you a work hard - play hard culture, filled with as many laughs as post-it notes on the walls. We think you’ll be surprised by how close people in Polymath become, how much salsa we end up dancing to, and how many adventures - in and out of the office, that we enjoy together.

Who we look for

We work with people from all types of backgrounds, here are a few common qualities

Growth mindset
This is probably the most important characteristics we look for. We don’t believe in “experts”, especially when we’re bringing new things into the world. We look for people that bring talent and skills to the table, but that are hungry for constant learning and growth. This is the only way our organizations can improve, and succeed.
Comfort with ambiguity
Building from scratch means that the path to success is unknown. This is substantially different from most corporate environments. In Polymath, what we need to do next, and how we need to prioritize is not always clear. Therefore the ability to intellectually and emotionally deal with the unknown is absolutely critical.
Entrepreneurship hunger
We look for people that not only have a burning desire to build something big and meaningful, but the willingness to get their hands dirty and do “whatever the fuck it takes” to see it through. It requires a lot of quick, intelligent thinking, deep passion, a bias towards action, and emotional maturity to do what we do.
A little bit of crazy
When you think about it, what we do is not all that rational. The easier, more secure path would be for us to work in the corporate world. But we don’t. We want to build in hugely challenging environments. We think that takes an enormous amount of optimism and bit of craziness, and we hope you bring some of that too.

This is probably the most important characteristics we look for. We don’t believe in “experts”, especially when we’re bringing new things into the world. We look for people that bring talent and skills to the table, but that are hungry for constant learning and growth. This is the only way our organizations can improve, and succeed.

Building from scratch means that the path to success is unknown. This is substantially different from most corporate environments. In Polymath, what we need to do next, and how we need to prioritize is not always clear. Therefore the ability to intellectually and emotionally deal with the unknown is absolutely critical.

We look for people that not only have a burning desire to build something big and meaningful, but the willingness to get their hands dirty and do “whatever the fuck it takes” to see it through. It requires a lot of quick, intelligent thinking, deep passion, a bias towards action, and emotional maturity to do what we do.

When you think about it, what we do is not all that rational. The easier, more secure path would be for us to work in the corporate world. But we don’t. We want to build in hugely challenging environments. We think that takes an enormous amount of optimism and bit of craziness, and we hope you bring some of that too.