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# Open Positions at Shaper

- **Company:** Shaper
- **Location:** Multiple Locations
- **Posted:** 2023-12-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/shapercapital/jobs/4173897007

## Job description

We are looking for Shapers to help create and lead exceptional companies. We aspire to build the highest-performing team in the world by bringing together ambitious people who are smart, nice, and get things done.

Shaper Capital and its portfolio companies are hiring for many roles, including but not limited to:

- Shaper Fellows & CEOs — relentlessly entrepreneurial, ridiculously ambitious, brilliant, and ethical leaders who can help launch businesses, turn ideas into execution, and lead companies as they scale.

- Operations Partners — help us build the infrastructure for building and shaping companies.

- Software Engineers & Product Managers — for our portfolio of companies.

- Other — What are you exceptional at? Write your own job description.

All Shapers receive equity in the businesses they build. Our objective is to create the most competitive risk-reward package, the biggest opportunity to shape industries, and the best environment in the world for personal growth. We do this by pairing Shapers with business ideas that we are uniquely positioned to pursue, supplying the capital and assets needed for rapid growth, and providing hands-on support in building a business.

## About Shaper

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Technology, Information and Internet; Middleware / Data Infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (companies in industries with highly fragmented data)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Build companies that shape the world" by finding exceptional talent, cultivating individual shapers, and building businesses that transform industries.

## Products & Services
Shaper Capital does not sell a single product; it builds and co-founds multiple portfolio companies. The core offering is its venture-building engine:
- **Venture Building & Co-Founding**: Shaper actively co-founds startups alongside CEO talent, providing capital, operational support, and a proven playbook from prior successful companies (LiveRamp, Datavant).
- **Playbook & Infrastructure**: A repeatable framework for building middleware businesses that connect fragmented data and applications, applied across industries such as healthcare, marketing, and others.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Shaper uses personal capital and is not a fund)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding is not applicable (self-funded by Travis May’s personal capital)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Self-funded; no external investors. Key partners include portfolio company CEOs and executive talent.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 50% YoY to ~10 employees (LinkedIn data); actively hiring for multiple roles (CEO-in-Residence, Engineers, Operations). Founder Travis May previously scaled LiveRamp to $200M+ revenue and led Datavant to a $7B merger.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed & Independence**: Operates at the pace of a business, not a fund committee, using personal capital to avoid LP pressures.
- **Proven Playbook**: Founders have built two of the largest data exits in the last 20 years (LiveRamp, Datavant), providing a repeatable blueprint for data fragmentation businesses.
- **Talent Obsession**: Relentless focus on attracting "Shapers" – people who are smart, nice, get things done, and love to win. Equity-heavy compensation and hands-on support.
- **Win-Win-Win Model**: Aligns incentives among founders, customers, and investors for long-term value creation.

## Strategic Focus
- Build at least 50 companies over the next 10 years that transform industries through data interoperability.
- Continue to apply the middleware playbook (data highly valuable, highly fragmented, applications fragmented) across new verticals.
- Scale the company-building engine by hiring exceptional founder-CEOs, engineers, and operations partners.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Shaperism" – belief that individuals can shape the world. High-performance, low-ego environment. "Smart, nice, get things done."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-first; team distributed across the United States.
- **Compensation & Equity**: All Shapers receive equity in the businesses they build; described as "the most competitive risk-reward package."
- **Impact**: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with proven entrepreneurs to launch and scale category-defining companies from day one.
- **Notable Perks**: Hands-on mentorship from Travis May and senior partners; access to a network of top operators and investors.

## Sources
1. [shapercap.com](https://www.shapercap.com/about)
2. [shapercap.com](https://shapercap.com/)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shaper-capital)
4. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/shapercapital/jobs/4173897007)
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/shapercapital)

## Other roles at Shaper

- [Financial Operations Associate](https://feeny.ai/job/financial-operations-associate-shaper-united-states-zt67w7y8gk6v) — United States
- [Founding Engineer - Shaper Capital](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-shaper-capital-shaper-remote-sbandf1d0w0p)
- [CFO-in-Residence](https://feeny.ai/job/cfo-in-residence-shaper-united-states-d9xfdj3zf7qy) — United States
- [Venture Builder-in-Residence](https://feeny.ai/job/venture-builder-in-residence-shaper-united-states-kgwav3djk1bn) — United States
- [Shaper Portfolio Business & Operations Talent Community](https://feeny.ai/job/shaper-portfolio-business-operations-talent-community-shaper-united-states-s1b4en8hz7g8) — United States
- [Shaper Portfolio Sales & Go-to-Market Talent Community](https://feeny.ai/job/shaper-portfolio-sales-go-to-market-talent-community-shaper-united-states-4g7err0t6ypk) — United States
- [Shaper Portfolio Engineering & Product Talent Community](https://feeny.ai/job/shaper-portfolio-engineering-product-talent-community-shaper-united-states-t659avs0dfwk) — United States