Careers
Are you passionate about women’s empowerment, health and wellness?
Do you desire to make a positive impact on the lives of millions through holistic healing?
Do you love being organized and thrive on creating structures, systems, and processes?
If so, then please join our founding team! Elix is a new venture-backed femtech startup on a mission to give women’s health the attention it deserves - harnessing ancient wisdom for the future of chronic care, beginning with menstrual health.
Launched in Q1 2020 with features in Forbes, Buzzfeed, Vogue, Healthline, and 50+ other media outlets, Elix is proud to destigmatize the conversation around women's health.
Scroll below to see our current openings:
Director of Operations
Chief of Staff
Senior Brand Designer
Finance and Strategy Associate
Social Media & Influencer Intern
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Director of Operations
We are seeking a passionate Operations Leader to build a solid foundation that enables rocket-ship growth. As the Head of Ops for Elix, you will build and scale all aspects of procurement, manufacturing, quality control, demand planning, fulfillment, CX, supply chain & logistics. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will be responsible for defining and tracking KPIs, managing critical relationships, facilitating key negotiations and mentoring a growing team.
Some Challenges You’ll Tackle:
- Develop, implement and manage operational systems and processes that provide visibility to goals, progress, obstacles for our key initiatives and day-to-day business operations
- Plan, monitor and analyze key metrics for day-to-day performance to ensure operational efficiencies while proactively addressing any potential roadblocks
- Build meaningful relationships with all internal and external vendors, partners, collaborators (especially tech); collaboratively facilitate the successful implementation of key initiatives that support strategic goals
- Own all aspects of manufacturing, fulfillment and supply chain – driving key metrics around cost, order fulfillment, and inventory control; develop and implement a plan for scaling manufacturing, fulfillment and supply chain to support rapid growth
- Oversee production, quality assurance and accountability with co-manufacturers and suppliers, maintaining robust QA/QC systems and procedures
- Track current inventory and forecast future inventory needs; place purchase orders to support those needs; build and own COGS models to identify efficiencies
- Support new product innovation and execute new product launches, sourcing ingredients, packaging, and other inputs
- Mentor and grow a team to support Operations and CX
The Ideal Candidate:
- 5-7+ years of experience managing operations and supply chain for a fast-growing CPG venture (startup and/or management consulting experience strongly preferred)
- Knowledge of multiple operational functions and principles, including finance, procurement, production, supply chain and customer service (experience with Shopify is a plus!)
- Proven ability to develop and optimize operational processes, structures and roles that enable efficiencies and support rapid growth
- Experience with vendor management: sourcing, negotiating and problem-solving
- Analytical problem solver with strong Excel skills and experience forecasting supply / demand, managing inventory, and supporting budgeting processes
- Proactive, hard-working and resourceful in pushing progress forward and meeting accelerated timelines with minimal oversight
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced but thoughtful and feedback-rich environment
- Is a highly organized and analytical problem solver who loves challenging the status quo with a mindset of ‘how can we do this even better?’
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HOW TO APPLY: Please complete this short questionnaire that will ask for a PDF of your resume: http://bit.ly/ElixOpsAppLI
Have questions? Email us with "Ops Application" as the subject line: career@elixhealing.com
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Chief of Staff
We are seeking a passionate Chief of Staff to support our CEO and advisors in building a solid foundation that enables rocket-ship growth. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate the most impactful areas of the business. You will get to know the inner workings across all facets of a fast-growing startup, building frameworks and processes while collaborating cross-functionally with other team members, consultants, and vendors in setting strategy and project managing key initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, self-starter with a desire to learn and grow quickly into a leadership role and/or start their own business in the future.
Some Challenges You’ll Tackle:
- Be a thought partner in establishing and communicating Elix’s priorities, challenges, and culture internally and externally.
- Define and drive operational maturity at Elix, collaborating with the CEO on special projects, tracking key metrics, creating dashboards, building financial models and conducting data analysis
- Project manage high priority business initiatives from conception through successful execution, collaborating with cross-functional internal team members, consultants and external vendors.
- Evaluate and incubate new ideas by conducting competitive intelligence research, scoping initiatives, running tests and creating MVPs, defining success metrics and transitioning successful initiatives to other parts of the organization.
- Proactively identify opportunities to support the team and improve current processes across functional areas, coordinating organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.
- Build team infrastructure to ensure smooth communications, project management and cross-functional collaboration– be the owner of internal templates and dashboards.
- Create a high-performance culture by being the organizational “glue” – connecting, onboarding, and supporting the team as we grow and scale. Support with additional HR projects on an as-needed basis.
- Support investor relations and stakeholder communications by drafting internal and external business updates across key projects and financial performance.
The Ideal Candidate:
- 3-5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking and/or equivalent fast-paced professional services environment that demands strategic thinking, stakeholder management, data analysis, organization and collaborative communications.
- Proven experience organizing and collaborating with multiple, cross-functional teams
- Excellent business acumen and understanding of a P&L
- Analytical problem solver with advanced command of Excel and data analysis tools
- Deep interest in CPG/DTC e-commerce and/or women’s health, prior work experience in the industry is a plus
- Proven ability to develop and optimize operational processes, structures and roles that enable efficiencies and support rapid growth
- Experience with HR, culture, talent management is a bonus
- Proactive, hard-working and resourceful in pushing progress forward and meeting accelerated timelines with minimal oversight
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced but thoughtful and feedback-rich environment
- Is a highly organized and analytical problem solver who loves challenging the status quo with a mindset of ‘how can we do this even better?’
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HOW TO APPLY: Please complete this short questionnaire that will ask for a PDF of your resume: http://bit.ly/ElixChiefofStaff
Have questions? Email us with "Chief of Staff Application" as the subject line: career@elixhealing.com
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Senior Brand Designer
We are seeking an imaginative, dynamic and highly versatile brand designer – with experience across all communication channels (from digital, to social, packaging, print and experiential) – to bring to life the beauty of proven plant medicine while inspiring new conversations around traditionally taboo areas of our cycles + our bodies. This role will be instrumental to building out the Creative team and be mentored by our Creative Advisor (Helen Steed) while reporting directly to the Founder and CEO.
Some Challenges You’ll Tackle:
- Brand building from the inside out across channels and mediums
- Continuously audit and reimagine the brand experience across the user journey lifecycle, creating content that inspire, connect and engage our community
- Collaborate closely with our PR, Digital Marketing, Social & Influencer and other internal and external partners to develop campaigns that spark awareness, conversations and growth
- Brainstorm ways to continue communicating the brand story and dichotomies to activate healthy epiphanies and conversations (ie, through print and packing design, unboxing experience, email/SMS, online journey, growth marketing campaigns, etc.)
- Tap into community feedback, metrics and consumer trends to plan, test and launch new concepts, activations and partnerships
- Identify new partners and collaborators to further the visual library and needs of the brand
- Be the owner of the brand guidelines, providing internal and external partners with feedback, approvals and direction for all materials to ensure consistency
The Ideal Candidate:
- Loves visual storytelling and iconography - has a capacity to define, interpret and execute creative direction to connect and inspire
- Is obsessed with trends and culture to stay 'ahead of the curve’ – exhibits a strong passion for consumer brands, design, art and fashion, typography and color with experience designing across multiple brand touchpoints, including print, packaging, digital, motion graphics, experiential (pop-up) and more
- Thrives in a fast-paced but thoughtful and feedback-rich environment
- Loves challenging the status quo with a mindset of ‘how can we do this even better?’
- Has an entrepreneurial spirit and mindset with the capacity to lead, inspire, create and partner
- Is highly organized and loves to build processes for efficiency
- Is skilled at giving and receiving feedback with an attentive eye to details and strong written and oral communication skills
- Has 4-5+ years design experience, ideally inclusive of DTC brand experience and fluent in Adobe Creative Suite including: Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. And is familiar with product design software such as Sketch, Miro, InVision or Figma
- A BA in Graphic Design and Communications or equivalent degree
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HOW TO APPLY: Please email your resume + creative portfolio with a short note on why you’re the perfect fit to career@elixhealing.com, include "Senior Brand Designer" as the subject line.
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Strategy & Finance Associate / Senior Associate
We are seeking a passionate Associate/Senior Associate of Strategy & Finance to collaborate with our CEO and Advisors on special projects that support our rocket-ship growth. This is a great opportunity for a highly driven analyst or associate from investment banking or consulting who wants to apply their experiences to scale an impact-driven startup, gain hands-on functional management experience and accelerate their career.
Some Challenges You’ll Tackle:
- Bring structured, analytical and data-driven approaches to support decision-making across functional areas such as marketing, operations and product development
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to accelerate growth and/or improve customer retention
- Develop key performance indicators and reporting that accurately represent the effectiveness of key initiatives - draw from sales history, financial data and consumer insights to evaluate and identify new business opportunities across channels and potential partners
- Collaborate with our investors and advisors to create operational dashboards, analyze cohorts and implement a data warehouse and business intelligence visualization tools
- Support customer insight initiatives (surveys, focus groups, product tests, etc) to help deepen our understanding of specific customer personas, leading to real-life out of home experiences, podcasts, direct mail and additional marketing strategies
- Conduct market analysis and competitive research to qualify new growth opportunities
- Proactively identify opportunities to support the team and improve current processes across functional areas, coordinating organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.
- …And more!
The Ideal Candidate:
- 1-3 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking and/or equivalent fast-paced professional services environment that demand strategic thinking, stakeholder management, data analysis, organization and collaborative communications
- Excellent business acumen and understanding of a P&L; ability to tell a story from the numbers
- Data-driven problem-solver with advanced command of Excel and data analysis tools (SQL experience and/or proficiency with a programming language is a bonus!)
- Deep interest in CPG/DTC e-commerce and/or women’s health, prior work experience with the industry is a plus
- Proven ability to develop and optimize operational processes, structures and roles that enable efficiencies and support rapid growth
- Proactive, hard-working and resourceful in pushing progress forward and meeting accelerated timelines with minimal oversight
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced but thoughtful and feedback-rich environment
- Is a highly organized and analytical problem solver who loves challenging the status quo with a mindset of ‘how can we do this even better?’
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HOW TO APPLY: Please complete this short questionnaire that will ask for a PDF of your resume: http://bit.ly/ElixStrategyApp
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Internships
Internships are available throughout the semester. Please email your resume to career@elixhealing.com and we will reach out to you if there is a fit.