No job description here. If that bothers you, this probably isn't the place.
We don't hire against a list of requirements. We look for people who take a problem apart to understand it, not to check a box, and we'd rather find out how you think than read your resume.
Why we do it this way
A job posting describes a shape and asks people to fit it. Most of the work worth doing here doesn’t have a clean shape yet. We’d rather meet someone whose thinking doesn’t fit a listing than fill a role just because the listing existed.
That means there’s nothing to apply to below. Instead, there’s a sense of the kind of thinking we’re actually looking for, and a way to reach us.
What tends to stand out to us
You question the premise
You check whether it's the right problem before solving it. You've talked a client out of the request they walked in with.You go find the number yourself
When a report doesn't add up, you trace it to the source instead of repeating it. Right and slow beats fast and wrong.You explain things plainly
You can walk a non-specialist through a complicated idea without losing the substance behind it.Get in touch directly
We don’t run a formal pipeline for this. Write to us, tell us what you’ve worked on and what you’d want to work on here, and include something you built, fixed, or figured out that you’re genuinely proud of. We read everything ourselves.
Reach us at consult@chalk-theory.com. Put “Careers” in the subject line so it doesn’t get lost.
Curious what we actually work on first?
See the kind of problems we take on before you write to us.