The Team
Built by people who've lived the problem Former career coaches, edtech operators, and AI builders creating the future of career development
Framer design
Framer design
Framer design
Framer design
Framer design
Framer design
Second time cofounders
Second time cofounders
We met in Singapore in 2015 and immediately clicked over a weird superpower: we could spot what made people great when they couldn't see it themselves.
We became each other's career hype squad — helping the other articulate wins, reframe failures, and pitch ourselves better.
Classic founder origin story: we solved our own problem first.
Vrijen bio
Ex-McKinsey consultant turned founder. Brings strategic rigor and operational speed to Careerspan's mission. Obsessed with helping people translate their experiences into opportunities. Leads product strategy, fundraising, and partnerships.
"I've seen too many talented people get overlooked because they couldn't tell their story. That stops now."
Cornell MBA • Raised $1.25M • Built in NYC
Logan bio
15-year edtech operator and Harvard GSE researcher specializing in learning design and how professionals build skills in the AI era. Brings a unique blend of pedagogical expertise and future-of-work insights to ensure Careerspan's coaching methodology actually drives behavior change. Leads go-to-market, customer success, and product strategy for tomorrow's workforce.
Vrijen Attawar
Ex-McKinsey (but don't hold it against him). Obsessed with helping people translate their experiences into opportunities. Loves cats.
Logan Currie
Edtech in Asia for a long time (ask her about travel and she won't stop talking). Obsessed with all things skills, future of work, and learning. Book nerd.
Co-founders
We met in Singapore in 2015 and discovered an immediate synergy: we both had an uncanny ability to help people see their hidden strengths through thoughtful questions and reframing. We became each other's career coaches first, co-founders second.
Our complementary backgrounds — Vrijen's McKinsey strategy and startup operations, Logan's 15 years building edtech across Asia and research at Harvard GSE — converged around a shared obsession: why do brilliant people struggle to articulate their value?
After selling our first coaching company, we spent 2.5 years building Careerspan on a simple premise: everyone deserves a career companion who helps them discover and communicate their greatness. We believe the future belongs to those who can signal their unique value through the noise.
"We've been each other's career champions for a decade. Now we're building that for everyone."
Vrijen bio
Ex-McKinsey consultant turned founder. Brings strategic rigor and operational speed to Careerspan's mission. Obsessed with helping people translate their experiences into opportunities. Leads product strategy, fundraising, and partnerships.
"I've seen too many talented people get overlooked because they couldn't tell their story. That stops now."
Cornell MBA • Raised $1.25M • Built in NYC
Logan bio
15-year edtech operator and Harvard GSE researcher specializing in learning design and how professionals build skills in the AI era. Brings a unique blend of pedagogical expertise and future-of-work insights to ensure Careerspan's coaching methodology actually drives behavior change. Leads go-to-market, customer success, and product strategy for tomorrow's workforce.
Ilse Funkhouser
Chief Product Officer
Daniel Brady
Head of Engineering
Danny Williams
Fullstack Developer
Serhii Bilyk
Frontend Engineer
Rochel Polter
Product Designer
Careerspan's advising team
Careerspan's advising team
Dr. Peter Blair
Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, co-director of the Project on Workforce.
Leading researcher on how skills-based hiring can create economic mobility. Helps us build for the labor market of tomorrow, not yesterday.
Valerie Sutton
Career researcher, career coach, chief of workforce
Spent nearly two decades helping students navigate career transitions. Now she ensures our AI coaching methodology reflects real human wisdom.
James Gallagher
CEO @ Greenlite Technologies, angel investor, startup advisor and former Marine.
Built and scaled multiple startups. Raised $50M in venture funding. Keeps us focused on sustainable growth and operational excellence.
Colin Emerson
GTM at Harvey, former EightfoldAI and Deloitte
Krystal Briggs
Meta AI + data ethics
Our Values
We hire for mission alignment, not just skills
Everyone here has felt the career system fail them or someone they care about.
We build in public
Our learnings, struggles, and wins are shared openly. No corporate theater.
We remember we're building for humans
Every line of code, every design decision, every partnership — guided by real
user impact.
We play the long game
Building infrastructure takes time. We're here for the decade-long journey, not the quick flip.
In a world of noise, only those who can articulate their unique
value will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before co-founding Careerspan, we were each other's career coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made us uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building has taught us: the market is drowning in sameness. Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn profiles. AI-generated cover letters. Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't enough anymore. You need to
signal them in a way that cuts through the noise.
But people are terrible at identifying their own uniqueness. They
can't see their differentiators. They don't recognize their own patterns of excellence. They miss the very things that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling — helping people discover and
articulate what makes them irreplaceable in a world where we're all at risk of being replaced.
In a world of noise, only those who can articulate their unique value
will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before co-founding Careerspan, we were each other's
career coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made us
uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building has taught us: the market is drowning in
sameness. Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn profiles. AI-generated cover letters.
Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't enough anymore. You need to signal them in
a way that cuts through the noise.
But people are terrible at identifying their own uniqueness. They can't see their
differentiators. They don't recognize their own patterns of excellence. They miss
the very things that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling — helping people discover and articulate what makes
them irreplaceable in a world where we're all at risk of being replaced.
In a world of noise, only those
who can articulate their unique
value will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before
co-founding Careerspan, we
were each other's career
coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made
us uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building
has taught us: the market is
drowning in sameness.
Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn
profiles. AI-generated cover letters. Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them
different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't
enough anymore. You need
to signal them in a way that cuts
through the noise.
But people are terrible at
identifying their own uniqueness.
They can't see their
differentiators. They don't
recognize their own patterns of
excellence. They miss the very thing that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling
helping people discover and
articulate what makes them irreplaceable in a world where
we're all at risk of being replaced.
Join Our Revolution
We're building the future of career development. Want in?
We're not hiring for specific roles right now, but revolutions need revolutionaries. If you want to build infrastructure that changes how careers work — we should talk.
In a world of noise, only those who can articulate their unique
value will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before co-founding Careerspan, we were each other's career coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made us uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building has taught us: the market is drowning in sameness. Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn profiles. AI-generated cover letters. Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't enough anymore. You need to
signal them in a way that cuts through the noise.
But people are terrible at identifying their own uniqueness. They
can't see their differentiators. They don't recognize their own patterns of excellence. They miss the very things that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling — helping people discover and
articulate what makes them irreplaceable in a world where we're all at risk of being replaced.
In a world of noise, only those who can articulate their unique value
will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before co-founding Careerspan, we were each other's
career coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made us
uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building has taught us: the market is drowning in
sameness. Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn profiles. AI-generated cover letters.
Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't enough anymore. You need to signal them in
a way that cuts through the noise.
But people are terrible at identifying their own uniqueness. They can't see their
differentiators. They don't recognize their own patterns of excellence. They miss
the very things that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling — helping people discover and articulate what makes
them irreplaceable in a world where we're all at risk of being replaced.
In a world of noise, only those
who can articulate their unique
value will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before
co-founding Careerspan, we
were each other's career
coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made
us uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building
has taught us: the market is
drowning in sameness.
Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn
profiles. AI-generated cover letters. Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them
different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't
enough anymore. You need
to signal them in a way that cuts
through the noise.
But people are terrible at
identifying their own uniqueness.
They can't see their
differentiators. They don't
recognize their own patterns of
excellence. They miss the very thing that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling
helping people discover and
articulate what makes them irreplaceable in a world where
we're all at risk of being replaced.
What we offer when we hire:
Work on a problem that touches everyone
Shape how millions navigate their careers
Remote-first, async-friendly culture
Equity that could actually matter
Colleagues who chose mission over comfort
Drop us a note with what resonated and what you'd build.
contact@careerspan.com
In a world of noise, only those who can articulate their unique
value will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before co-founding Careerspan, we were each other's career coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made us uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building has taught us: the market is drowning in sameness. Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn profiles. AI-generated cover letters. Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't enough anymore. You need to
signal them in a way that cuts through the noise.
But people are terrible at identifying their own uniqueness. They
can't see their differentiators. They don't recognize their own patterns of excellence. They miss the very things that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling — helping people discover and
articulate what makes them irreplaceable in a world where we're all at risk of being replaced.
In a world of noise, only those who can articulate their unique value
will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before co-founding Careerspan, we were each other's
career coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made us
uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building has taught us: the market is drowning in
sameness. Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn profiles. AI-generated cover letters.
Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't enough anymore. You need to signal them in
a way that cuts through the noise.
But people are terrible at identifying their own uniqueness. They can't see their
differentiators. They don't recognize their own patterns of excellence. They miss
the very things that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling — helping people discover and articulate what makes
them irreplaceable in a world where we're all at risk of being replaced.
In a world of noise, only those
who can articulate their unique
value will cut through.
We're Vrijen and Logan. Before
co-founding Careerspan, we
were each other's career
coaches — helping one another identify and articulate what made
us uniquely valuable.
Here's what 2.5 years of building
has taught us: the market is
drowning in sameness.
Identical resumes. Generic LinkedIn
profiles. AI-generated cover letters. Everyone sounds the same because no one knows what makes them
different.
The brutal truth: having skills isn't
enough anymore. You need
to signal them in a way that cuts
through the noise.
But people are terrible at
identifying their own uniqueness.
They can't see their
differentiators. They don't
recognize their own patterns of
excellence. They miss the very thing that would make them stand out.
That's the gap we're filling
helping people discover and
articulate what makes them irreplaceable in a world where
we're all at risk of being replaced.