Youth Engagement Specialist

Skillify | Las Vegas, NV (Summerlin)

This role is for someone who owns the room and genuinely wants to help others succeed.

You know how some people walk into space and the energy shifts? That's you. You can hold 50 high schoolers' attention for six hours straight — not by talking at them, but by making them feel like they're part of something. You're part motivational speaker, part workshop facilitator, part hype person, and 100% someone who genuinely believes in and wants to support young people.

We're Skillify. We run career conferences and mentorship programs that help students figure out what they want to do with their lives. We've reached thousands of students across 220+ schools — and we're just getting started.

Our conferences are the heartbeat of what we do. They're high-energy, high-impact days where students meet mentors, explore careers, and walk out with more confidence than they came in with. You'll be the person who makes that happen.

If you want a desk job, this isn't it. If you want to work directly with students 2-4 days a week while traveling across California and Nevada — keep reading.

What You'll Actually Do

You'll be the face and voice of Skillify at our in-person conferences and events. You're not reading from a script — you're commanding a room, reading the crowd, adjusting on the fly, and creating moments students will remember years from now.

Conference days (2-4x per week):

• Lead full-day career conferences (6+ hours) at high schools across California and Nevada
• Facilitate high-energy workshops on career exploration, mentorship, goal-setting, and professional skills
• Emcee and manage the flow — intros, transitions, keeping energy high, handling the unexpected
• Connect with students 1:1 and in groups — you're approachable, memorable, someone they trust
• Coordinate with school staff and mentors to make sure the day runs seamlessly and everyone feels the impact
• Drive to school sites, sometimes 5+ hours each way, including frequent overnight travel

Between conferences:

• Coach students 1:1 virtually (we promise students personalized virtual support from 9am - 7pm PT every day, and the whole team rallies to ensure students get quick responses)
• Improve and iterate on workshop content and conference experience based on what's landing
• Prep materials, coordinate logistics, debrief with the team
• Support other Skillify initiatives as needed — we're a startup, roles flex

You're Right for This If...

You're all in. Part-time energy doesn't work here. You want something you can pour yourself into.

You have “impossible-to-ignore” positive energy. Six hours on your feet, projecting, facilitating, engaging — and you're still hyped at the end. This isn't a performance you can fake.

You're hungry. You want to grow fast, take on responsibility, and prove yourself. You're not waiting to be told what to do.

You're resourceful. When you hit a wall, you find a way around it. ChatGPT, Google, ask questions, figure it out — you don't freeze.

You're reliable. When you say you'll do something, it happens. People trust you.

You're relationship-oriented. You remember details. You follow up. You make people feel seen.

You're an optimistic problem-solver. Things break, plans change, students ghost. You stay positive and adapt.

You love systems. Checklists, trackers, organized chaos — you thrive when things have structure.

You light up around students. You genuinely enjoy young people and want to help them win.

You want mentorship. You'll work directly with our founders. You want to learn from people who've built something.

You're excited to travel. School visits, conferences, events — you want to be in the room, not just behind a screen.

Who Thrives Here

Recent grads who are looking for their "first real thing" — the opportunity where they can grow into a leader. People who chose a scrappy startup over a big-name company because they want ownership, not a title. The person who was president of three clubs, tutored on the side, and still asked “what else can I help with?”

Requirements

• Work with us in-person at our Summerlin office when not at conferences
• Strong public speaking skills — you've done this before and you're good at it
• Available to lead conferences 2-4 days per week, often full-day (6+ hours leading on-site)
• Valid driver's license, reliable car, and willingness to drive 2-3+ hours to school sites
• Open to overnight travel when conferences are far from Las Vegas
• Open to working late hours to support students 9am - 7pm PT. We have weekend shifts as well, they are more “on-call” and supported by all team members. We provide dinners in the office when we have days that go past 5pm PT.
• High energy that sustains over long days (this is non-negotiable)
• Comfortable learning new content quickly and making it your own
• Mastery of Google Drive or tools like Notion for staying organized
• Bonus: experience in teaching, youth programs, event facilitation, theater, coaching, or anything that put you in front of groups of young people

The Culture

• High standards, high support. We expect excellence and we'll help you get there.
• Move fast, stay scrappy. We don't wait for permission. We figure it out.
• Collaborative, not competitive. Small team = everyone matters. Your ideas matter on day one.
• Mission over ego. We're here for students. Everything else is secondary.

Why This Role is Special

• Real impact you can see. You'll watch students transform over the course of a single day. That never gets old.
• Founder access. You'll learn directly from people who've built this company for 12+ years.
• Shape the role. We're scaling our program. Your ideas on how to make it better will actually get implemented.
• A team that's actually fun. We like working together. That's rare — and it matters.
• Never boring. Different school, different students, different energy every time.

Sound Like You?

If you read this and thought "I was literally born for this" — we want to hear from you.

Don't send us a generic cover letter. Tell us: Why Skillify? Why conferences? Send us a 2-minute video of you doing what you do best — teaching, presenting, hyping up a room, whatever shows us who you are in front of a crowd. 

Complete the official application here.