Introducing the Modus Family Office Job Board

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The Modus newsletter usually goes out on Fridays. This one is arriving late because research suggests Tuesday is when most people rethink their employer, browse the internet, update their resumes and apply for jobs.

If that is you right now, you are in luck.

Today, the Modus Family Office Job Board and Family Office Recruiters page are live, and to my knowledge, nothing like them has ever existed.

Almost all job boards are terrible because their operators treat job seekers like a collective of human activity they can monetize, not as their own individual users or customers. That volume game is what entices job-board operators to let anyone post roles and expand the types of employers and positions almost indefinitely. There is nothing wrong with this, and it can be a great business (see: Indeed, Monster, etc.). However, that scale makes it impossible to build a platform best suited to the needs and nuances of specific industries or groups. The value to job seekers—even if it's high—remains limited.

The Modus newsletter has included a “Jobs” section since the first email went out in December 2024, and readers have since shared open positions for inclusion. Finding and hiring family-office professionals is especially hard; even incremental awareness among the right group of professionals is worth the effort, hiring organizations and recruiters have told Modus. Readers also often reach out to Modus inquiring about open family-office jobs (there are 2,400+ subscribers now, so this happens often).

Modus created a job board with all of the above in mind, and one that only an independent journalism business can provide.

How it works: Jobs are submitted directly to Modus and publicly sourced. Modus selects and writes each posting, then enriches it with original journalism and data on the employer, personnel, pay, location and more.

New jobs are added weekly and stay on the board for 30 days or until they close. Every posting links directly to the employer or recruiter, not another job board. You apply with them; Modus doesn’t collect applications.

Subscribers can view the job board for free, and submitting a job is free. Modus is not compensated by any company or recruitment firm for including jobs on the board, or by any candidates they hire. The board is a Modus product supported by the newsletter’s sponsor.

About 100+ hours went into the board and the recruiter page, but these are only the first versions.

Please check out the new “Job Board” section of the newsletter below (it already has 29 jobs). Share what you like, what’s missing, and how to improve it. And most importantly: share jobs!

Builder’s Vision Names a New CEO

Matt Knott is now the CEO of Builders Vision, the $20 billion investment and philanthropy platform focused on innovations in food, agriculture, energy and oceans, and founded by Walmart heir Lukas Walton. He joined the company as president in 2019 and had served as interim CEO for the past year.

In a statement, Walton commended Knott for his leadership through a “tremendous growth” period, and said he and the inaugural board of directors named in September agreed the executive was the right person for the job now and going forward.

“I'm really proud of how much we've grown since those early days. It’s a testament to our ability to steward capital not just with a sense of purpose, but with an unwavering commitment to profitability, because market uptake is how we scale our impact. That said, I’m even more proud of the talented team, collaborative culture, organizational capability and powerful network we've built along the way,” Knott told Modus.

During his stint as interim CEO, Knott said the organization spent the past year sharpening its strategy and working as effectively as possible across its investment and philanthropy teams (Builder’s Vision has about 100 employees).

Knott was energized after attending Climate Week in New York this year. “There was a different tone in the room this year and a sense of renewed momentum. Conversation after conversation, we heard that other investors are starting to see renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, the blue economy, and various other aspects of our work not as nascent or risky markets, but as ripe investment opportunities,” he said.

But no matter how good or plentiful the opportunities are, Builder’s Vision is eager to establish relationships with and work with family offices. Profitably taking on the biggest problems related to food, agriculture, energy and oceans requires huge scale; Builder’s “can’t do this alone.”

“We see tremendous opportunity to work with other family offices by investing together, sharing insights and identifying opportunities to build and scale markets together. We are a learning organization, and while we’ve come a long way, we don’t profess to have it all figured out. We are actively engaging with family offices and learning from one another, so we can realize our full potential,” Knott said.

“Our success is not just about deploying smart, flexible capital that we control; it’s about influencing and building coalitions of other smart investors and asset owners to join us.”

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A message from FOTechHub

How to build a modern tech stack and future-proof your family office.

Find out at FOTechHub’s 4th Annual Family Office Tech & Ops Conference, with independent panels, peer insights, and live demos of the tools family offices actually use.

Nov 18–19 | 12:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern Time | Virtual

Optional networking opens at 11:30 AM ET on both days. It’s a chance to meet other family offices and members of the FOTechHub peer community in short, structured video conversations.

This year’s agenda covers how to put AI to work in your office, and how to do it safely:

Invited speakers include single-family offices, among them two seventh-generation family offices, as well as multi-family offices and experts at the forefront of AI in the family office. See the full agenda.

Complimentary registration for family offices and their advisors.

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