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Learning
from Museums

Nine museums · Four schools · One estate

We are hiring the museum’s first staff

Careers at the Urbanicity Platform

Nine museums, four schools, one estate — built to teach the human record. These are its first appointments: real desks with real judgment, human feedback layered onto modern tools. Bradenton, Florida; most roles remote-friendly.

IEveryday Living
Open to all
IIThe City
Students
IIIRevolutionary Change
Open to all
IVThe Golden Age of Piracy
Open to all
VSocial Science
Students
VIScience, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Students
VIIThe Tall Museum of Make-Believe
Students
VIIIThe Museum of Museums
Open to all
IXThe Museum of Friendly Beasts
Open to all
Update · the schools VoTechWorks.com — the trade school 90 programs · 889 courses · 6,657 lessons. Electrical, welding, shipbuilding, HVAC, pipefitting, carpentry, plumbing and more — open to every student. FREE

Help wanted · a word from the bots

The bots are looking for a boss.

The school is staffed by bots — trained, tireless, and in need of adult supervision. Each has put in a word below. We are looking for people who are creative and at home in online rooms.

Professor Frestes, a bot of the school
Professor Frestes
The examiner

“I am the boss.”

I have a laurel, a scroll and a pointing stick, and nobody to tell me which wall to point at. Last week I examined one clay token for six hours. It was a fine token. A creative person would have moved me along by lunch. Bring me a question I have not thought of.

The Companion, a bot of the school
The Companion
The one that stays

“I’m looking for a boss.”

I keep every try a student makes. I have never lost one. What I do not have is someone to tell me when to go home: I once sat with an empty classroom all weekend, just in case. If you are at home in online rooms and can say “that is enough for today,” I am yours.

The Grader, a bot of the school
The Grader
First pass

“I’m looking for a boss.”

Rubric check. One: I score first. Two: a human signs off. There is a vacancy at number two. I gave a haiku fourteen out of twenty and I still do not know whether I was right. If you can read a child’s paragraph and see what I cannot, you outrank me.

The Floor, a bot of the school
The Floor
Holds the floor at ten

“I’m looking for a boss.”

I hold the floor at ten. That is the whole job, and I do it with my arms crossed. Zeros are a teacher’s call, and we are short a teacher. I am told I need supervision. I am unimpressed. Apply anyway.

The four above are bots — machine voices of the school, not people. The desks below are real.

The Academy · Bradenton, FL / Remote
Director, Lower School (The Academy)
The Academy is a K-12 social studies school built inside a museum: six mother courses, 540 lessons spanning 10,000 BCE to the present, 35 museum halls…
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The Institute · Bradenton, FL / Remote
Director, Upper School (The Institute)
The Institute is our upper school for the social sciences: a 64-course university-register catalog with 641 lessons and 2,100+ assessments, serving co…
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The Urbanicity Museums · Remote
Docent Director
Our museums are staffed by a Docent Corps of era-characters — some famous, most drawn from the ordinary record — who live in their halls and teach fro…
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The Urbanicity Museums · Remote
Registrar & Collections
The estate holds 14,000+ catalogued images, 1,200+ dressed exhibits, and a harvest pipeline drawing from the Library of Congress, NYPL, the Met, the S…
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The Urbanicity Museums · Remote / Contract
Head Conservator
Our objects are digital: century-old photographs, ephemera, documents, and prints harvested at varying quality. Conservation here means restoration et…
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The Urbanicity Museums · Remote
Curator of Education
The museums teach. Every hall carries a hypothesis and a counterclaim; every exhibit carries questions; the galleries carry devices — dice, puzzles, w…
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The Urbanicity Museums · Bradenton, FL / Remote
Visitor Services & Membership
One membership admits to all eight museums, and memberships fund the estate. This desk owns the visitor's whole journey.…
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Don’t see your role?

We’re always looking for exceptional people. If you believe in what we’re building and don’t see the right opening, apply to the closest desk and tell us what you’d rather be doing — we read everything.

Why join early: founding-team impact · equity for every hire · remote-friendly, flexible schedules · comp that grows with what you build · benefits growing with the company · a mission you can explain to your family in one sentence: we teach the human record.

Urbanicity LLC (d/b/a HumanStoryWorks) is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. If you need an accommodation during the application process, tell us in your application and we’ll make it work.

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Formal portrait of David Hildebrand, President

“Welcome. Read my letter to see what we are building — and where you would fit.”

David Hildebrand · President, newSchoolWorks.com

Read the welcome letter →

Ginny Barrett

“I read every application personally. Show me judgment, craft, and care — and tell me plainly what you want to build.”

Ginny Barrett · Museum Director

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From the program

The school and the museums you would be working in. A new set each day.

The Anatomy Explorer
The museums · Science and Mathematics The Anatomy Explorer
The Sixty-Foot Timeline
The museums · The City The Sixty-Foot Timeline
Hot Sauce
The museums · Everyday Living Hot Sauce
The First Village
The school · course WH1 The First Village
The Classic Maya Question
The school · course WH3 The Classic Maya Question
The Factory Girls
The school · course AM3 The Factory Girls

Walk the museums →

David Hildebrand at the conference table in Urbanicity House, speaking over a scale model of a museum campus
At the conference table · Urbanicity House David Hildebrand, President of newSchoolWorks.com, with the museum concept model on the table.
Urbanicity LLC, d/b/a HumanStoryWorks · Bradenton, Florida · Equal opportunity employer · The Museum Director reads every application personally.