Original Storytelling - Researcher and Writer | Senior Manager

Endeavor is the leading network of entrepreneurs scaling exceptional businesses around the world. Founded in 1997, we exist to develop thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in places where talent is abundant, but capital and opportunity are not.

Our model:

• Select: We identify entrepreneurs with the greatest potential and introduce them to Endeavor through a rigorous, value-add selection journey.
• Support: We give founders access to a trusted community, curated programming, global markets, and smart capital to help them navigate pivotal moments.
• Invest: Endeavor Catalyst helps our entrepreneurs scale faster by providing founder-friendly capital alongside leading venture funds, generating meaningful returns for LPs and Endeavor.
• Elevate: We amplify the stories of Endeavor Entrepreneurs and provide a platform for them to inspire, mentor, and invest in the next generation.
• Advance: To advance the field of global entrepreneurship, Endeavor publishes data-driven research and thought leadership based on our 30 years of experience in Elsewhere markets.

Endeavor supports 3,000+ entrepreneurs across 50+ countries, including the founders of Replit, Mercado Libre, Careem, Rappi, , and Eleven Labs.

Endeavor is building an original podcast. Each season runs six to eight episodes, and each episode is a deep dive into a single Endeavor market: how an entrepreneurial ecosystem came to exist, who built it, what it cost them, and why it happened there. Long-form, obsessively researched, structured as a narrative nonfiction, and unembarrassed about being entertaining. The tone is pop history: funny where the story is funny, serious where it earns it, and full of detail a listener cannot find anywhere else.

The Researcher will spend weeks focusing on one market at a time building off of Endeavor's pre-existing deep ecosystem research, centering each season's episodes on a city and the entrepreneurs who helped build its ecosystem, tracing how the city’s history and culture interconnect with the personal stories of the entrepreneurs and the network that grew around them. You will uncover the people, institutions, policies, places, and turning points that shaped the city’s trajectory.

Then you will help turn it into something people want to listen to for ninety minutes.

This is not a desk-research role and it is not a literature review. The work rewards someone who will pick up the phone, get on a plane, sit in an archive, and keep pulling on a thread after three people have told them it goes nowhere.

• Own the reporting behind each episode from a blank page: build the source list, find the people who were in the room, and keep going until the story holds up from every angle
• Conduct interviews with entrepreneurs, co-founders, early employees, investors, regulators, competitors, journalists, and the people nobody thought to ask
• Travel to markets to report on the ground: visit the original office, walk the neighborhood, meet sources in person, and find the records that were never digitized
• Work across local-language press, corporate and court filings, trade publications, university and government archives, out-of-print books, and private collections
• Partner with Local Offices and the Endeavor network to open doors, then go well past the introductions they give you
• Verify the origin stories everyone repeats, including the ones Endeavor repeats, and establish what actually happened

• Turn several months of reporting into a narrative with a spine: characters, stakes, reversals, and a reason to still be listening at minute seventy
• Write episode outlines, narration drafts, host prep documents, and interview guides
• Find the connections…