Glo

Help us understand why you connect to the Glo mission and how your skills would contribute.

In the past seven days, Glo received just over 300 applications to our open positions. We’re really lucky to be receiving so much interest, and we want to give every candidate a fair shake. But the sheer quantity means that on average, we’re spending a few minutes on each application when making a first cut about moving folks on to the next round.

We have a few suggestions for making your application stand out. The one-sentence version: help us understand the connection between your work (and your values) and Glo’s work (and our values).


We’re still a young company. Show us why you connect to Glo’s mission.

We get a lot of applications from folks who, apparently, send dozens of resumes out at a time without doing a lot of research or customization. That might work for some people at some places, but at Glo, as our CTO put it at a company retreat, we hire based on “mission fit.” We’re looking for people who are excited about providing basic income to people in extreme poverty.

If your previous work experience was at a basic income NGO, great! We can probably infer mission fit. If your experience is totally different, perhaps let us know why you’re looking to make a shift to a mission-centric organization? This isn’t strictly necessary, but we appreciate when people help us connect the dots. A brief cover letter, or a post in our Discord (we have a #jobs-at-glo channel!), or really anything that makes the alignment clear can really help.

Cover letters are optional, and they don’t need to be formal.

A lot of advice on the internet about cover letters is about the details – how to format it, whom to address it to, etc. To be candid, we don’t care about that. (Most startups don’t.) Your cover letter, should you choose to write one, can be brief, to the point, and informally styled.

Love the Glo vision but don’t see a role listed that fits with your skills?
Get in touch - we need all the help we can get.


About us

Glo is a nonprofit startup striving to end extreme poverty. We are a global team of computer scientists and economists that combine academic rigor with a startup mentality. Please see the following resources for more information.

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