Join the Harlem Career Lab Team Help Build Harlem’s Next Generation
Harlem Career Lab is more than a place to work. It is a place where people come to study, network, grow, relax, and connect with new opportunities. We are building a team of energetic, dependable, and ambitious people who want to help shape what Harlem Career Lab becomes. These are hands-on roles for people who enjoy taking initiative, building relationships, creating memorable experiences, and seeing the direct results of their work. Because we are growing, you will not be stepping into a role where everything has already been decided. You will have the opportunity to contribute ideas, build programs, develop valuable skills, and help establish experiences that can become a lasting part of the Harlem community. If you are driven, resourceful, comfortable meeting new people, and excited by the opportunity to build something meaningful from the ground up, we want to hear from you.
Community Experience & Operations Associate
Help Build How Harlem Experiences Harlem Career Lab.
$20/hour + performance incentives | Three openings
Every person who walks through our doors represents a different goal. Your job is to understand it—and help them take the next step. As a Community Experience & Operations Associate, you’ll work where customer experience, sales, community outreach, and operations come together. You’ll have real ownership from day one.
What You’ll Own
You’ll engage people entering the center, understand what they’re looking for, connect them with relevant programs, turn interest into registrations and sales, generate leads, conduct neighborhood outreach, and help make sure HCL is ready for every person who walks through the door. You’ll also look for opportunities to make the experience better. See something that could work differently? Bring the idea. Test it. Learn from the result.
Your Impact
We’ll look at what your work produces: customers engaged, enrollments generated, qualified leads, sales, conversions, outreach activity, follow-up, and customer experience. For productive shifts, associates will work toward attributable sales and revenue-producing activity. You won't just observe HCL's growth. You'll help create it.
Business Development & Partnerships Specialist
Build the Relationships That Expand What Harlem Career Lab Can Become.
$25/hour + performance incentives
There are businesses, brands, organizations, and entrepreneurs throughout New York that should know Harlem Career Lab. Your job is to find them. And then give them a reason to work with us. As a Business Development & Partnerships Specialist, you’ll own opportunities from discovery through partnership.
What You’ll Own
Find prospective partners. Reach the right decision-makers. Understand what matters to them. Create an opportunity that makes sense for both sides. Move the conversation forward. Close the partnership. Then ask what else we can build together. You’ll work across sponsorships, advertising, activations, referrals, events, service partnerships, and other opportunities that can expand HCL.
Your Impact
We’ll measure qualified opportunities, meetings, proposals, partnerships, pipeline growth, revenue, and expansion of successful relationships. This isn't a role where success is measured by how many emails you send. It's measured by what you create because you sent them.
Community Partnerships & Engagement Associate
Make Harlem Career Lab More Connected to Harlem.
$18/hour | Two openings
A community organization doesn't become part of its neighborhood because it says it is. It happens one relationship at a time. As a Community Partnerships & Engagement Associate, you'll help build those relationships.
What You’ll Own
You'll get outside the center and meet the people around us. You'll introduce HCL to businesses and organizations, recruit partners for community initiatives, find volunteers, build participation around events, follow up with interested organizations, and help turn introductions into ongoing relationships. One week you may help build a food drive. Another week you may recruit volunteers. Another may begin with walking into a local business we've never worked with before.
Your Impact
We'll measure connections made, organizations engaged, partners activated, volunteers recruited, commitments generated, follow-through, event participation, and repeat relationships. The question we'll continue asking is: Is Harlem Career Lab more connected to its community because of the work you did?
Director of Music & Community Experience
Build the Sound of Harlem Career Lab.
$30–$40/hour + performance incentives
We're not looking for someone to fill a playlist. We're looking for someone to help create an experience. Music affects who walks in, how long they stay, who they meet, how the room feels, and whether they want to return. You'll own that part of Harlem Career Lab.
What You’ll Own
You'll perform recurring sets and help develop the musical identity of HCL. You'll experiment with formats, understand different audiences, read the room, develop recurring concepts, identify other talent when the programming calls for it, and help us learn what makes people come back. Hip-Hop. R&B. Soul. House. And whatever else makes sense for the experience you're building.
Your Impact
We'll look at attendance, repeat attendance, audience engagement, programming concepts, consistency, guest response, reliability, and growth associated with music-led experiences. Some ideas will work. Some won't. We want someone interested in discovering the difference.
Affiliate Revenue & Advertiser Partnerships Specialist
Build a Revenue Channel From the Ground Up.
$20/hour + performance incentives
Harlem Career Lab recommends tools, services, resources, and businesses that can help our audience move forward. Now we're building the business behind those recommendations. You'll help shape it.
What You’ll Own
You'll learn how our affiliate networks work, discover advertisers that fit our audience, build placements, develop relationships, monitor performance, and figure out where the larger opportunities are. Sometimes that means improving a link or placement. Sometimes it means contacting the advertiser directly. Sometimes an affiliate relationship could become a sponsored placement, activation, custom partnership, or something we haven't built yet. We expect you to help us find out.
Your Impact
You'll measure clicks, conversions, commissions, advertiser approvals, relationships, placements, direct opportunities, partnerships, and revenue. You'll learn what performs. You'll improve what doesn't. You'll scale what works. We're not looking for someone to simply manage affiliate links. We're looking for someone who wants to help build the channel.
See Yourself Here?
If one of these roles sounds like you—or like the direction you’re looking to grow—we’d like to hear from you. Send us an email with your resume attached and tell us: - Which role you’re interested in - What interests you about the opportunity - Why you believe the role fits where you want to grow - Your availability for an interview You don’t need to have done everything in the job description before. We’re looking for people who are ready to learn, take ownership, contribute ideas, and produce results.
Harlem Career Lab also shares opportunities as a community resource and is not involved in external employer’s hiring decisions. Positions may change or close without notice.
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