Purpose: A capable team for every meaningful mission
  • Director

    for Facilitator

    Purpose:

    A capable August

    Domains:

    • Proposals to Stockholders on edits to:
    • Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Constitution
    • August’s Purpose
    • Equity Policy, including any/all shareholder agreements

    Accountabilities:

    • Counseling our business on the “nuts and bolts”
    • Steering toward purpose and values
    • Proposing to Shareholders financial decisions above $150,000USD, excluding compensation
    • Representing August in public
    • Expanding our business/client network
    • Expanding our talent network
  • Facilitator

    Purpose:

    Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.

    Accountabilities:

    • Facilitating the Circle’s constitutionally-required meetings
    • Auditing the meetings and records of Sub-Circles as needed, and declaring a Process Breakdown upon discovering a pattern of behavior that conflicts with the rules of the Constitution
Purpose: A capable team for every meaningful mission
  • Board Treasurer

    Purpose:

    Align API operations more closely with the direction of the board and the shareholder perspective with a focus on August finances

    Accountabilities:

    • There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
  • Partner

    Purpose:

    The long-term health and success of our purpose

    Domains:

    • Partner selection process and Partner Panel
    • Bonus Policy

    Accountabilities:

    • Forging long-lasting client and network relationships that help August create sales and partnership opportunities.
    • Keeping each other accountable for being good owners; nobody is in charge here; this is your business
    • Developing August’s long term vision to clarify our growth plan and other emerging parts of the business.
    • Stewarding new/big investments by taking on ambiguous new roles and bets.
    • Keeping the business profitable by understanding our financial health and making proposals related to our capital expenses (reinvestment, taxes, bonus distribution, payments, etc).
    • Connecting the dots by looking across P&L, growth, culture, and people strategy.
    • Driving our growth by contributing to at least 50% of our annual sales.
    • Making major decisions related to our people strategy that might include changes to August’s compensation system, hiring strategy, and membership (e.g. potential layoffs).
    • Deciding on bonus distribution guided by our bonus policy.
    • Designing and leading a partner selection process that aligns with August’s values, and team and business needs.
    • Maintaining a regular cadence of communication with non-partner pals.
  • Reputation & Marketing

    Purpose:

    Past, present and potential future clients seek out August as a leading-edge partner for org transformation

    Domains:

    • aug.co
    • August brand identity, including Brand Guidelines (Visual/Vernacular), Color Palette, Logo
    • Public Drive
    • Email Marketing & August Newsletter
    • Marketing Budget
    • Marketing Strategy

    Accountabilities:

    • Influencing our market
    • Generating new leads (both net new clients and new engagements with existing clients)
    • Defining our target audience and positioning
    • Reporting key metrics
    • Tracking marketing spending
    • Creating an overarching marketing strategy, updated at least once per year
    • Seeking out and building relationships with vendors and marketing collaborators (industry experts, designers, writers, editors, etc.)
    • Making content that engages and coverts our target audience
    • Supporting Sales team in cultivating relationships with potential buyers through events, speaking, and compelling content
    • Coordinating Marketing tactics and strategy with Sales tactics and strategy
Purpose: Ensuring a healthy culture that is true to August’s values
  • Development Advocate (multi-filled)

    for Sherian

    Purpose:

    Support gustos to intentionally developing their capacity at August

    Accountabilities:

    • Helping gusto identify resources to develop their capacities
    • Helping gusto identify stakeholders from whom feedback needs to be gathered
    • Supporting gusto in scheduling feedback moments including GBOP, Capacity Check, Leveling Up Decision Making, and Delivery Feedback
    • Advocating for the gusto to gain opportunities that support the development of their capacity
    • Gathering feedback about the gusto and sharing it in an appropriate way
    • Supporting the gusto in contributing to August at their highest possible capacity
    • Tracking and reporting attendance at GBOP, Capacity Development, and Leveling Up sessions
    • Reading all Development policies closely, and reviewing GBOP, Capacity Development, and Leveling Up session agendas prior to calling the session
    • Monitoring engagement and identifying ways to help when needed
    • Communicating with @membership_committee when a member's performance raises questions about viability of long-term Membership at August
    • Initiating a conversation with Gusto at least annually about whether you are the best Development Advocate for them based on their development needs and support them in identifying a new DA if a change makes the most sense
  • Member (all members at August)

    Purpose:

    To advance the August Mission of "A capable team for every meaningful mission"

    Accountabilities:

    • Fulfilling duties as contained in Article 1, Section 4.1 of the August Constitution
    • Deciding with purpose: Using our Purpose as the primary decision making filter for all of your decisions, bring an ever questioning eye to whether or not our work, clients, and focus really fulfills our larger purpose, continually both support and push the status quo to help us evolve forward as a purpose driven business
    • Wellbeing: Promoting each other’s well-being and recognizing the importance of a healthy balance between the needs of the business and the personal life of its members
    • Organizing: Participating in, contributing to, and defining the way we organize and work; Identifying ways to address existing structural flaws and to the development of the larger cultural system via proposing new ideas, and working to improve existing systems; Representing the needs of the business through governance, elections, voting, summit etc
    • Driving: for awareness around power dynamics and biases that get in our way of functioning as a healthy system, hold team members accountable for the role they play within the system (including yourself), particularly those who hold “power” due to experience, tenure, gender or race, continually keep a pulse check on where members are and how their personal status syncs up/impacts the larger work environment for others
    • Developing: Contributing to the development of fellow individual team members via thoughtful, constructive feedback and continually improving yourself
Purpose: The right people in the right place for our work
  • Hiring Advocate

    Purpose:

    A positive and equitable candidate experience

    Accountabilities:

    • Collecting evaluation info and feedback
    • Setting the candidate up for success
    • Proposing either to make offer or not
    • Closing
    • Conducting the 1st Interview (and automatically becoming HA if you conduct the 1st interview)
    • Confirming start date, inclusive of any Visa or other immigration items.
    • Scheduling and booking candidate travel
    • Designing and scheduling Chemistry test, including deciding which Gustos should attend, which Chemistry test (Part A or B) the candidate should take and answering any questions the candidate might have regarding the session
    • Attending the Chemistry test to gain critical key data to inform the proposal to make an offer and to act as a familiar face for the candidate
    • Preparing and sending offer letter (including benefits breakdown and relocation policy, if necessary) to candidate based on final decision with the support of @Operations_&Finance and @Operations&_Finance
    • Sending the first onboarding email (a Mixmax template) that initiates the handoff to the @Onboarding Buddy
    • T7 Specific: Engaging and securing 2 new Board Members as prioritized by @Board, alongside the person that has the relationship
    • Sending a rejection email to the candidate (anywhere in hiring process after 1st interview)
  • Interviewer (Multi-filled)

    Purpose:

    Conducting awesome interviews that bring the best out in candidates and illustrate how wonderful August is

    Accountabilities:

    • Interviewing candidates
    • Adhering to the Candidate Interview Prep policy
    • Adhering to our Hiring Process policy
    • Answering candidate questions
    • Telling the August story to candidates
    • Collecting and documenting feedback for candidates
Purpose: A profitable business offering that delivers transformative change to leading organizations.
  • Accounts Team Member

    Purpose:

    Unspecified

    Accountabilities:

    • Delivering assigned client and internal work – see the Actively Delivering column on August's Trello https://trello.com/b/Pr2nm9Ow
    • Pursuing new and re-up work using the Sales Habits defined here: https://app.glassfrog.com/policies/11272238
    • Representing human/money resource needs to prioritization pals
  • B Team

    Purpose:

    A focused effort for scaling WOW across the B group

    Domains:

    • Overall strategy for our relationship

    Accountabilities:

    • Selling $1MM in work for August across the organization in 2022
    • Surfacing resourcing needs to the @Resourcing Pals
    • Maintaining a weekly cadence
  • Deal Owner

    Purpose:

    Move deals effectively through our sales pipeline

    Accountabilities:

    • Selling deals that align with our current accounts strategy (https://app.glassfrog.com/organizations/5170/orgnav/roles/10929034/overview)
    • Setting realistic expectations with clients regarding WHEN and WHO (e.g. a scope starts ideally no sooner than 4 weeks after signing; and getting a client comfortable with flexible resource outcomes - it's not always you, the deal owner, who delivers)
    • Keeping your deals up to date in Hubspot in line with our Hubspot Stage Definitions & Revenue Projections Policy
      https://app.glassfrog.com/organizations/5170/orgnav/policies/11194898
    • Tagging @prioritizationpals in Slack with updates related to sales and resourcing
    • Creating a resourcing card (https://trello.com/c/1D7ZQOnR) as early as ready or need help, but no later than Scoping
    • Scoping in a way that supports spotlight opportunities for pals, whenever possible
    • Aiming, as much as possible, for a minimum deal size of $75K (3 cycles, 1 person @ 50%)
    • Ensuring the prospective deal meets our Lead Acceptance & Qualification policy criteria and starting a conversation when the prospective deal looks it might not meet the policy criteria.
    • Pairing with a sales team member for all deal pitching and closing
    • Scheduling and hosting an internal team kickoff
  • Metrics

    Purpose:

    Providing data and insights to make our business performance, strategy, planning, and execution smarter

    Domains:

    • "Complete Metrics" tab and data in Finance & Accounts Dashboard & Spreadsheets
    • "Weighted Pipeline" tab and data in Finance & Accounts Dashboard & Spreadsheets

    Accountabilities:

    • Updating key metrics weekly
    • Signaling when metrics indicate particularly good performance
    • Signaling when metrics indicate that a change in behavior or focus is needed to improve performance
Purpose: Make work life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive
  • ABLtd. Director

    Purpose:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/being-a-company-director

    Domains:

    • F&L relationship (London entity compliance)

    Accountabilities:

    • UK: Keeping company records and reporting changes to Companies House and HMRC in partnership with Fitz and Law
    • Complying with these responsibilities & duties - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/being-a-company-director
  • US HR Administration & Compliance

    Purpose:

    Unspecified

    Domains:

    • HR Compliance (USA) - including onboarding + offboarding
    • PEO Vendor Relationship and Contract - Justworks
    • Kaiser Relationship and Contract

    Accountabilities:

    • HR COMPLIANCE
      Managing employee offboarding process with PEO and @US Legal
      Communicating any employee compliance changes from PEO
      Acting as an HR compliance resource for the @Membership Committee role fillers
      Ensuring all necessary paperwork is completed for any employee changes in PEO portal (termination, salary changes, etc.)
      Proposing compliant policy updates for any employee relationship related policies
    • PAYROLL
      Managing payroll for all USA based team members
      Entering any updates and/or changes to payroll
    • BENEFITS
      Managing renewal and open enrollment process each year (end of August for Aetna, June for Kaiser)
      Notifying all team members of any changes and/or deadlines in regards to our benefits providers
      Communicating any changes with the team
      Responding to team members about any benefit inquiries or directing to the right resource
      Managing any ad hoc maintenance within time frames
      Proposing and updating benefit changes in the USA benefits and Perks policies
    • RECRUITING & ONBOARDING
      Reviewing offer letter review before it goes out
      Creating Justworks profile (upload signed docs, enter compensation, send out invite)
      Supporting and confirming new employee benefits enrollment
Purpose: Past, present and potential future clients seek out August as a leading-edge partner for org transformation
  • Lead Link

    Purpose:

    Past, present and potential future clients seek out August as a leading-edge partner for org transformation

    Domains:

    • Role assignments within the Circle

    Accountabilities:

    • Assigning Partners to the Circle’s Roles; monitoring the fit; offering feedback to enhance fit; and re-assigning Roles to other Partners when useful for enhancing fit
    • Allocating the Circle’s resources across its various Projects and/or Roles
    • Establishing priorities and Strategies for the Circle
    • Defining metrics for the circle
    • Structuring the Governance of the Circle to enact its Purpose and Accountabilities
    • Removing constraints within the Circle to the Super-Circle enacting its Purpose and Accountabilities
  • Marketing Manager

    Purpose:

    Executing our marketing strategy

    Accountabilities:

    • Prioritizing channels for August content and messaging
    • Creating and managing a marketing calendar
    • Studying industry trends and identifying opportunities for August to promote our work or connect our offering to emerging client needs
    • Choosing marketing tactics to support business goals
    • Managing freelance partners and vendors
    • Managing our company LinkedIn profile
    • Managing Hubspot lead generation, mailing lists, and email automation
    • Updating our website, with the support of graphic designers and developers
    • Supporting August events with website pages/forms, and email marketing
  • Thought Leadership

    Purpose:

    Developing ideas about organizations that make August famous

    Accountabilities:

    • Identifying emerging ideas from the August team and delivery work for sharing publicly
    • Collaborating with August team members to develop ideas
    • Designing frameworks, models, and other tools that make ideas practical
    • Co-authoring blog posts and whitepapers
    • Studying emerging trends and identifying insights