About Forest RoadThe Forest Road Company is a specialty finance platform that owns, operates and invests in exceptional companies that reshape their categories.&nbsp;About the RoleForest Road pursues investments centered around TMT, Renewable Energy, Real Estate and Blockchain technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Forest Road is currently seeking an Associate to join its investment team. Primary responsibilities include business, financial, accounting and industry diligence, financial modeling / valuation, transaction structuring and project management. The position will combine elements of M&amp;A, capital markets, private equity, growth equity investing, public market analysis, complex deal execution and strategy work. We are a small team where you can expect to work hard but get valuable exposure, experience and autonomy.&nbsp;Role Objectives<ul><li>Work on a lean dynamic team advising companies that are ‘changing the game’ in high growth industries</li><li>Spearhead and assist with the execution of investment opportunities across public markets, private equity, growth equity, venture capital and strategic debt financing deals</li><li>Help strengthen Forest Road’s core business through acquisitions, investments and/or partnerships</li></ul>&nbsp;Primary Responsibilities<ul><li>Take an active role in managing overall process for investments, including due diligence and identifying key issues, preparation of detailed financial model and presentation materials and transaction execution</li><li>Help create analysis and materials relevant for mergers, acquisition and sale of companies</li><li>Support team in identifying potential investment targets and investable themes</li><li>Research industry and company trends to inform investment decision making process</li><li>Coordinate with functional internal and external experts (e.g. tax, accounting, legal counsel, etc.)</li><li>Prepare Investment Committee presentations for assessment of potential investments</li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>Immediate start date</li><li>A minimum of 1 year of investment banking, management consulting or comparable experience</li><li>Experience with M&amp;A deal processes and exposure to valuation and due diligence</li><li>TMT background is a plus</li><li>Deep financial modeling expertise</li><li>Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint</li><li>Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills required to represent Forest Road’s interests with internal and external constituencies</li></ul>&nbsp;People Who Thrive in Our Culture<ul><li>Entrepreneurial spirit, strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, intellectual curiosity and strategic approach</li><li>Team player with well-rounded skill set, patience and versatility necessary to flourish in cross-functional teams ranging from startup to mature company environments</li><li>Ability to apply an analytical approach to assess situations with limited information</li><li>Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and deliver accurate and thoughtful work under tight timelines</li></ul> Equal Opportunity Employer Forest Road considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to <a href="mailto:jeremy@forestroadco.com">jeremy@forestroadco.com</a> and <a href="mailto:thigbie@forestroadco.com">thigbie@forestroadco.com</a> to express your interest in this position.

Investment Associate

About The Company Notables is the premier marketplace for non-fungible tokens - digital art and collectibles, recorded on the blockchain. We release exclusive content from well known artists and brands each week. Notables is a “startup within a startup” – we’re Forest Road employees, and we leverage Forest Road’s financial resources and corporate network, but we have our own tech organization and our own unique team culture. Position Overview We are looking to add a Software Engineer who will work on the Notables backend, which we call Quandefi. You’ll get the opportunity to build out the frontier of an emerging field and build tools for some of the pieces that go on to be enormously popular in the digital collectible and payments space!&nbsp;Responsibilities<ul><li>You will help refactor and maintain our core systems to prepare them to scale</li><li>Design and implement architecture that builds on top of our existing system and enables the Notables platform to adapt and grow</li><li>Understand our core business objectives, then ideate and implement new features that will help us achieve our exciting goals to grow our customer base</li><li>Troubleshoot technical issues by leveraging your deep understanding of the systems and experience with technologies we leverage</li><li>Interface with other team members to build the critical portions of the application</li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>3+ years of experience as a software engineer, working on Python applications at scale</li><li>Working knowledge of AWS or equivalent cloud technologies</li><li>Ability to write secure code that works quickly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment</li><li>A customer-focused and product-focused mindset. You’re interested in using the right tool for the job and you understand, and can speak to the “Why” behind your choices</li><li>Track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering</li><li>results in an organized manner</li><li>Ability to drive end-to-end features and lead projects autonomously</li></ul>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity Employer The Company considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to careers@forestroadco.com to express your interest in this position.

Backend Developer

About The Company&nbsp; The Forest Road Company is a specialty finance platform that owns, operates and invests in exceptional companies that reshape their categories. We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate social media strategist to manage the company’s and its executives’ social media presence.&nbsp;Position Overview&nbsp; As the Head of Social Media, you will be a key part of the marketing and communications team, helping execute digital and social strategies across Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Clubhouse and others as they arise in order to facilitate the company's and management's thoughtful participation in appropriate conversations via social media. The ideal candidate will drive the execution of our day-to-day campaign and work towards designing positioning strategies for our key leaders, while serving as an in-house evangelist on all things digital and counseling key partners on how to amplify important announcements. The candidate should be fluent in paid, owned, social and earned strategies, and have specific experience with community management. This position reports directly into the Head of Marketing.&nbsp;Primary Responsibilities<ul><li>Develop the overarching social media strategy / approach that aligns with the company’s vision and goals</li><li>Maintain a high level understanding of trending topics and market activity</li><li>Research what competitors are doing well, what works, and what we can improve on</li><li>Continuously create new guides, tutorials and best practices for using social media as trends and protocols change in the wider social media landscape</li><li>Monitor the ever-changing social media landscape and propose new ways to use social media and/or new tools as appropriate</li><li>Provide analysis of social media traffic and user behavior and suggest improvements based on data</li><li>Work alongside the marketing team to develop and execute a robust overall marketing strategy including brand building, website &amp; SEO, email marketing and public relations</li><li>Exercise caution at all times, to avoid sharing proprietary information and / or breaking SEC rules</li><li>Help grow the company’s and its leadership team’s social media following, particularly amongst key stakeholders, by:<ul><li>Creating &amp; posting content for various company and team member’s Instagrams, LinkedIns (short and long form), and Twitters, and managing engagement/ interactions</li><li>Coming up with growth plans to increase following &amp; engagement, including strategically "following" key players, researching other channels / individuals for cross promotion, etc across Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter</li><li>Keeping track of any mentions or content we are tagged in, and flagging anything harmful / that may require an escalated response</li><li>Reposting content created for various channels on FRC and TPC facebook pages</li><li>Creating a long term plan to leverage Clubhouse, or other platforms we may choose to experiment with for WHAT THE SPAC "episodes" (Twitter Spaces, Twitter Live, Instagram Live, etc):<ul><li>Develop a system for advanced planning and promotion of individual episodes to maximize attendance</li><li>Manage run of show</li><li>Coordinate with guests / PR teams</li><li>Collect questions received via social media in advance of each “episode”</li><li>Create bulleted written summaries of each "episode" so we can look back on points that have been made and identify key learnings / ways to improve</li><li>Solidify an understanding of the CH algorithm, so that we as a company understand the "rules" and can maximize the platform&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience in related industries recommended</li><li>Strong experience working in social media for organizational purposes</li><li>Excellent social media writing and communication skills</li><li>Experience with mobile apps</li><li>Excellent organization and time management skills</li><li>Exceptional editorial judgement</li><li>Ability to discuss the ROI of social media campaigns</li><li>Knowledge of digital/online industry tools, key players and trends</li><li>Resourcefulness, team orientation, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit</li><li>Ability to work independently and request support and advice when required</li><li>Proven leadership qualities, a strong work commitment, and high ethical standards</li><li>Ability to handle demanding assignments, and be able to think on your feet</li></ul>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity Employer The Company considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to careers@forestroadco.com to express your interest in this position.

Head of Social Media

About The Company Notables is the premier marketplace for non-fungible tokens - digital art and collectibles, recorded on the blockchain. We release exclusive content from well known artists and brands each week. Notables is a “startup within a startup” – we’re Forest Road employees, and we leverage Forest Road’s financial resources and corporate network, but we have our own tech organization and our own unique team culture. Position Overview We are looking to add a Software Engineer who will work on the Notables frontend. You will be responsible for developing a lot of client side UI components using React/TypeScript. You’ll get the opportunity to build out the frontier of an emerging field and build tools for some of the pieces that go on to be enormously popular in the digital collectible space!&nbsp;Responsibilities<ul><li>Build out well-tested, polished user experiences and applications using modern, component-based frameworks like React and GraphQL</li><li>Shepherd products from designs and specifications to live deployments</li><li>Build reusable components and libraries for consumption by the open-source community that pull data from and interact with blockchains</li><li>Create trustworthy user experiences by building interfaces that are simple, easy to comprehend, performant and reliable using modern tools like React &amp; Typescript</li><li>Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards</li><li>Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction</li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>Drive and ambition to lead the development of a brand new platform</li><li>An ability to write high-quality, well-tested code</li><li>Ability to develop and ship user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks</li><li>Familiarity with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, security, and usability</li><li>Familiarity with product and design life cycles, and collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product managers</li></ul>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity Employer The Company considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to careers@forestroadco.com to express your interest in this position.

Frontend Developer

About The Company The Forest Road Company is a specialty finance platform that owns, operates and invests in exceptional companies that reshape their categories. Whether it be through our film financing activity, our operating businesses, our SPAC vehicles (NYSE: FRX &amp; FRXB), or our newly launched NFT platform, we are fueled by our continuous pressure to innovate and challenge the status quo.&nbsp; Position Overview As the Community Manager, you are entrenched in the crypto community, have strong understanding of the trends, nuances and platforms, and can communicate seamlessly with coders / developers, crypto community insiders, thought leaders, moderators, etc. while also speaking to non-crypto entertainment consumers as well. Responsibilities<ul><li>You will help refactor and maintain our core systems to prepare them to scale</li><li>Design and implement architecture that builds on top of our existing system and enables the Notables platform to adapt and grow</li><li>Understand our core business objectives, then ideate and implement new features that will help us achieve our exciting goals to grow our customer base</li><li>Troubleshoot technical issues by leveraging your deep understanding of the systems and experience with technologies we leverage</li><li>Interface with other team members to build the critical portions of the app</li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>Experience building out and deploying Solidity smart contracts</li><li>Ability to write secure code that works quickly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment</li><li>A customer-focused and product-focused mindset. You’re interested in using the right tool for the job and you understand, and can speak to the “Why” behind your choices</li><li>Track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in an organized manner</li><li>Ability to drive end-to-end features and lead projects autonomously</li></ul>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity Employer The Company considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to careers@forestroadco.com to express your interest in this position.

Crypto Community Manager

About The Company Notables is the premier marketplace for non-fungible tokens - digital art and collectibles, recorded on the blockchain. We release exclusive content from well known artists and brands each week. Notables is a “startup within a startup” – we’re Forest Road employees, and we leverage Forest Road’s financial resources and corporate network, but we have our own tech organization and our own unique team culture. Position Overview In this role as a Product Manager, you will be working with users, developers, and other stakeholders at Notables to ensure that we are focused on solving the most pressing problems with the product and addressing the most pressing opportunities to unlock product value. A great fit for this role will be someone who evaluates problems from a 'first-principles' mindset, is intensely curious, and cares deeply about the craftsmanship of a well-designed user experience. Above all, we want the individual in this role to develop a clear understanding of our user so that the product work we take on can be passed through that lens. We would like to hire someone for this role who can create internal momentum around a product roadmap we reach consensus on, but make data-driven and customer-driven suggestions when we need to alter our course.&nbsp;Responsibilities<ul><li>Working with our leadership to plan upcoming sprints that account for necessary progress towards roadmap initiatives, developer bandwidth, and other factors</li><li>Creating well-scoped, well-documented Product Requirements Documents to serve as clear references for work developers take on</li><li>Working closely with developers to ensure new product initiatives have been de-risked from an engineering perspective and scoped down to the highest-impact, lowest-effort solution to the problem</li><li>Iterating over design concepts with our designers based on findings from user interviews</li><li>Ensuring we maintain a high bar for quality in the work that we ship by remaining attentive to high- severity bugs and ensuring our bug triaging system is running smoothly</li><li>Curating our backlog to ensure we are scoring new ideas accurately for effort and impact, in order to shortlist those tasks with the most outsized return on engineering bandwidth</li><li>Caring deeply about building a best-in-class product</li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>Relevant product management experience with demonstrated success owning key product initiatives</li><li>Experience with agile and scrum methodologies, including experience administering sprint planning meetings, stand-ups, and retrospectives</li><li>A technical background or fluency with engineering concepts in order to clearly communicate product needs to engineers</li><li>Comfort collaborating and communicating with developers at various levels of seniority to ensure product requirements are met</li><li>Blockchain knowledge is not a prerequisite for this position, but we expect the individual hired for this role to be interested and capable of ramping up quickly in this domain</li><li>(Nice to have) Exposure through a previous role to the blockchain ecosystem</li><li>(Nice to have) The ability to create simple, low-fidelity mock-ups in Figma or other design tools</li></ul>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity Employer The Company considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to careers@forestroadco.com to express your interest in this position.

Product Manager

About The Company Notables is the premier marketplace for non-fungible tokens - digital art and collectibles, recorded on the blockchain. We release exclusive content from well known artists and brands each week. Notables is a “startup within a startup” – we’re Forest Road employees, and we leverage Forest Road’s financial resources and corporate network, but we have our own tech organization and our own unique team culture. Position Overview We are looking to add a Software Engineer who will work on the Notables backend, which we call Quandefi. You will be responsible for coding a lot of smart contract related pieces of the application itself. You’ll get the opportunity to build out the frontier of an emerging field and build tools for some of the pieces that go on to be enormously popular in the digital collectible and payments space!&nbsp;Responsibilities<ul><li>Support the establishment and maintenance of FRC’s presence within the crypto community</li><li>Help manage conversations on platforms like Discord, Telegram, Reddit, etc</li><li>Work with the team to create content, write copy, and post on social media for various business lines (corporate and personal accounts) with a focus on accounts for our NFT business</li><li>Help facilitate the execution of marketing and launch strategies for NFT “drops”</li><li>Research and strategically engage with key players / influencers across crypto, entertainment, and finance</li><li>Provide analysis of social media traffic and user behavior as needed, and make improvements based on data</li><li>Help develop both visual and text-based marketing materials</li><li>Manage inquiries / issues and answer to customer service needs on ZenDesk</li><li>Maintain an understanding of trending topics and market activity, including what competitors are doing well / what works, and work with the team to spearhead improvements</li></ul>&nbsp;Qualifications<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree</li><li>A deep understanding of the cryptocurrency community, how it operates, and the platforms it exists on</li><li>Experience with / an existing presence on platforms including Discord and Reddit</li><li>Working knowledge of various social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook</li><li>Customer service skills</li><li>Excellent writing and communication skills</li><li>Excellent organization and time management skills</li><li>Resourcefulness, team orientation, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit</li><li>Ability to work independently and request support and advice when required</li><li>Proven leadership qualities, a strong work commitment, and high ethical standards</li><li>Ability to handle demanding assignments, and be able to think on your feet</li><li>1-3 years of work experience recommended</li></ul>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity Employer The Company considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable city, state or federal law.&nbsp;Please click the button below or reach out directly to careers@forestroadco.com to express your interest in this position.

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