Job Opportunities at The Tech Museum
Like any Silicon Valley start up, The Tech Museum's goal is to recruit, develop and retain superior staff and volunteers to work in an environment that provokes creativity and innovation. By supporting professional learning and personal growth, The Tech Museum encourages staff and volunteers to excel in their efforts and work as a team.
The Tech Museum strives to employ a staff and Board of Directors that is representative of the community it serves. Efforts to reach all audiences and cultivate a diverse staff, volunteer pool and Board of Directors are priorities at The Tech Museum.
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Life at The Tech Museum and Benefits
The Tech Museum is a high-energy blender of creativity, learning, thinking and fun. Fly over the surface of Mars between phone calls. Manufacture a high-tech bike on your lunch hour. Watch microchips being made or play with a robot on your way to a meeting. See curious school children and amazed adults engaged in science and technology and be reminded of the museum's mission every day. Few employers can combine work, play and learning as well as The Tech Museum. Take our word for it!
Not only can you play with the latest technologies being developed in Silicon Valley (on your lunch hour, of course!), but you can meet some of the people who sit on our Board of Directors and keep The Tech Museum on the cutting edge.
Top executives from some of Silicon Valley's largest companies—Adobe Systems, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Intel, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard just to name a few—help the museum by donating their time and resources. You can also meet some of the world's most noted thinkers—from President Bill Clinton and Retired Gen. Colin Powell to Steve Wozniak and Ray Bradbury—at The Tech Museum events, dinners and special activities and listen to their perspectives on how technology is changing the planet every day.
Benefits include:
- Vacation and Paid Leave
- Regular, full-time employees receive 10 days of vacation during the first three years of employment, 15 days after three years and 20 days after five years. Unused vacation may accumulate from one year to the next, but the accumulated total shall not exceed 20 days regardless of length of employment. Ten paid holidays are given to all regular, full-time employees annually. Paid sick leave is accrued each month not to exceed 10 days in a given year. Unused sick leave may accumulate from one year to the next, but the accumulated total cannot exceed 30 days regardless of length of employment. Regular, part-time employees receive vacation, holidays and sick leave benefits on a pro-rated basis.
- Insurance Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance is available to regular, full-time employees and for part-time employees regularly working 30 hours or more per week. The Tech Museum pays the greater portion of the employee-only monthly health care allowance for medical, dental and vision insurance dependent on the plan the employee enrolls in. The employee picks up the remaining monthly costs of their health care premiums. The employee may also elect to cover his/her dependents under this plan at the expense of the employee. Employees may choose either Kaiser HMO or Blue Cross PPO/HMO as their medical carriers. The Guardian is the dental carrier and vision care is provided by VSP (Vision Service Plan).
For regular employees who work 30 hours or more per week, The Tech Museum carries group life insurance equal to the employee's annual salary to a maximum of $250,000 and an additional $30,000 of supplemental life insurance. The Tech Museum provides extended disability insurance of 66-2/3 percent of the employee's salary per month up to a maximum benefit of $7,500 per month for the employee after 90 days of continued disability until the age of 65.
- Retirement Plans
- All employees are eligible to enroll in a Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan. Employees may contribute up to an annual maximum of $14,000 (then $15,000 in 2006 and $16,000 in 2007) in a 403(b) tax-exempt plan. TIAA-CREF is the retirement plan company for The Tech Museum.
How do I apply?
Follow the application procedures listed under each position if you are interested in working at The Tech Museum. Send your cover letter indicating the position you're interested in and resume with salary history to:
The Tech Museum
Attn: Human Resources
201 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113-2008
Or fax it to (408) 279-7149, Attn: Human Resources. You may also e-mail your ascii text cover letter and resume to jobs@thetech.org (do not send attachments).
Have a question that wasn't answered here? Contact Human Resources by email at jobs@thetech.org