We are looking for crew, not employees.
“ [People] wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.”
— Ernest Shackleton, 1914 (apocryphal)
If the name Shackleton means nothing to you yet, consider picking up Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. It will help you understand the spirit of this application — and what we are looking for in crew.
Zero Vector is building something new. Not a product. Not a company. A discipline — a way of working where design intent and code execution share the same moment. Open source. Open methodology. Built in public.
We are looking for crew, not employees. These are volunteer positions with a real mission, real standards, and real autonomy. You will work directly with the founder. You will shape something that does not exist yet. The pay is zero and the hours are yours to define.
What we offer: Authorship. Influence. A seat at the table of something genuinely new. And when this becomes what we believe it will become, the people who built it will not be forgotten.
If that is not enough, this is not for you. No hard feelings.
The honest version.
Right now: Nothing financial. Zero Vector Design LLC is real, newly formed, and pre-revenue. The founder works a full-time day job to keep the lights on. There is no venture funding, no angel round, no treasury. Anyone who joins right now is joining because they believe the work matters.
When the work pays off: Founding crew are founding crew. That means:
When paid engagements come in (workshops, consulting, client work), crew members who contributed to the deliverable get paid from the engagement. Not a thank-you. A cut.
When licensing revenue materializes (certifications, enterprise adoption, curriculum licensing), the people who built the thing being licensed share in it. We will formalize this with a written revenue-sharing agreement before any money changes hands.
If an acquisition, partnership, or investment event happens, founding crew are at the table. Not as an afterthought. As named contributors with documented history and negotiated participation.
What this is not: This is not equity. There are no shares, no vesting schedules, no cap tables. Zero Vector is an open methodology and we intend to keep it that way. What we are offering is something different: a seat in the room, documented contribution history, and a commitment that when the harvest comes, the people who tilled the soil eat first.
The honest version: We cannot promise this will pay off. We believe it will. The methodology is gaining real traction, the partnership pipeline is active, and the founder’s track record suggests this is not a hobby. But belief is not a paycheck. If you need certainty, wait. If you can tolerate ambiguity in exchange for being part of something from the very beginning, read on.
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry