Matchmaker

Company Description

Enkidu Chat leverages cutting-edge AI technology to foster meaningful human connections in real-world spaces such as cafés, coworking hubs, gyms, and places of worship. Using a simple SMS-based approach, users engage in reflective prompts that spark personal interactions and unique conversations. Enkidu helps businesses evolve into transformative spaces by offering anonymized community insights into shared human experiences. Prioritizing presence over performance, Enkidu is revolutionizing how people connect, gather, and build enduring relationships. Learn more at enkidu.com.

Role Description

This contract-based Matchmaker role is a hybrid position based in Santa Monica, CA, with flexibility for some remote work. As a Matchmaker, you will facilitate authentic human connections by overseeing and fine-tuning Enkidu’s matching processes. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing matchmaking data, maintaining personalized and empathetic communication with users, iterating the matching algorithm in collaboration with the AI/data team, and conducting research to improve connection dynamics. Your role will contribute to the transformative mission of making shared spaces more inclusive and human-centric.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for fostering authentic, empathetic user interactions
• Experience in data analysis and research to support matchmaking algorithm improvement
• Familiarity with AI or tech-enhanced matchmaking processes is a plus
• Ability to work effectively within hybrid work environments
• Flexibility and creativity in problem-solving to enhance the overall user experience
• Passion for community-building and promoting genuine human connections
• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Sociology, Communication, or related fields is a plus

What you’re actually doing

You will sit inside a café in Santa Monica and:

• Walk up to strangers and start real conversations
• Understand what’s actually going on in their life (not surface-level small talk)
• Turn that into a working “profile” in your head
• Introduce them to someone else in the space who they should meet
• Watch what happens next

Then you’ll track:

• Did they actually talk?
• Did they stay longer?
• Did they come back another day?
• Did they seek each other out again?

If they don’t, the match failed. That’s on us.

This role is uncomfortable by design

You will:

• Interrupt people’s routines
• Risk being ignored or rejected
• Make introductions that don’t land
• Be wrong in public

If that sounds draining, don’t apply.

If that sounds like the only way to figure out if something real works, keep reading.

What we care about (and what we don’t)

We don’t care about:

• Your resume
• Your “community building” experience
• Your ability to post on social media

We care about:

• Can you walk up to someone without hesitation?
• Can you understand them in under 5 minutes?
• Can you connect two people in a way that feels obvious after it happens?
• Can you tell us why something worked or failed?

Who tends to be good at this

• Bartenders who know their regulars deeply
• Servers who read tables instantly
• Trainers or instructors who build real rapport
• Recruiters who actually understand people (not just keywords)

But background matters less than behavior.

What success looks like

• People you introduce meet again without you
• The café starts to feel different (people recognize each other)
• You can explain patterns: who connects, who doesn’t, and why

If you can do this, you’re not just doing a job; you’re helping define a new category of product.

How to apply

Don’t send a resume.

Send a short note to adil@enkidu.com about a time you introduced two people and it actually mattered or a time you failed to connect people and why.

If you can’t think of either, this probably isn’t for you.