Atlas Society CEO Search

February 2010 -- The Atlas Society is looking to grow. Our founder and intellectual inspiration, David Kelley, has been doing yeoman-like work as both interim CEO and Chief Intellectual Officer, two full-time jobs. Thus we are looking for an open Objectivist with the passion, skills, and character to take over the business management side and work arm-in-arm with David, the staff, and board to align efforts on the intellectual and business side. We are searching for someone with considerable energy and entrepreneurial drive who can take on the task of using the fantastic intellectual base we've laid, and substantial progress already made on the practical side, to improve our execution, accelerate our progress, and take us to the next level.

• An open Objectivist with basic business and management skills; small team marketing and sales management, and MBA preferred.
•  An extreme entrepreneurial zeal, looking to grow TAS through public engagement (op-eds, media, lectures), membership recruitment, development, improved organization of our business, and participation in creating and ultimately co-guidance of our exciting new web efforts.
• A willingness to make less than what a talented Objectivist might make in other fields in exchange for a good chance to materially contribute to changing the world. As Objectivists we have no qualms about making money and offer no opprobrium for desiring it, but also recognize that it's far from the only type of satisfaction the world offers. One day this should be a high paying job but it’s not now!
• A very strong commitment to Objectivism, extensive knowledge and agreement with, but not dogmatic acceptance of, the works of Ayn Rand is assumed, though not a level of scholarship commensurate with a long‑term, truly dedicated study of Objectivism (remember we will still have David Kelley!)
•  An understanding of "open" vs. "closed" Objectivism, a commitment to the former (open), but a willingness to help reevaluate how much this difference should be stressed going forward (are we looking to bring other Objectivists into the open fold, or non-Objectivists who make no distinction into the Objectivist fold in general?)