<aside> ℹ️ Core values only become real when they shape who you hire. This page translates your brand strategy into the hiring decisions that will most define your company. The brand-dependent parts of the job description are written for you. The role-dependent parts are bracketed and left for you to fill in.

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Hiring philosophy

The person who thrives at Luminary is drawn to the quiet work of protecting something that most of the industry has decided is not worth protecting. They understand that restraint is a form of conviction, not a limitation. They have, at some point in their career, watched a good thing get compromised by the logic of scale, and it bothered them more than they could easily explain. They do not need the platform to be loud to believe it is right. They are suspicious of their own instincts when those instincts point toward growth for its own sake.

Job description template

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Job title: [Your role here]

About the role: [Responsibilities, requirements, location, compensation]

About Luminary: Every platform built for teachers was actually built for audiences. Luminary is the first infrastructure built around the teacher-student relationship itself: subscription communities where a ceramics instructor with twelve devoted students earns a real livelihood, where there are no follower counts to optimize and no discovery feed to perform for, and where students arrive because someone they trust sent them. We are not trying to fix the attention economy. We are building outside it. We are a small seed-stage team, adding our first hires, and the decisions we make now will determine whether the principle holds as the company grows.

You'll thrive here if:

• You hold the line even when the compromise is financially attractive
• You treat depth as a serious metric, not a consolation prize
• You build tools that disappear into the practice, not tools that demand attention
• You understand that loyalty to users is structurally different from loyalty from users
• You are comfortable being unglamorous about what we are not
• You recognize the difference between a practice and a funnel </aside>

Interview questions to test for values fit

• You hold the line even when the compromise is financially attractive
• You treat depth as a serious metric, not a consolation prize
• You build tools that disappear into the practice, not tools that demand attention
• You understand that loyalty to users is structurally different from loyalty from users
• You are comfortable being unglamorous about what we are not
• You recognize the difference between a practice and a funnel