Join our community of builders
We’re mission-driven to improve roommate safety and trust. Join as an experienced builder or as a student gaining real-world experience—every contribution drives tangible impact.
Collaborate directly with the founder—small, focused projects with clear outcomes.
Two ways to join
Choose the path that fits your goals—both contribute directly to our mission.
Experienced contributors
Professionals and grads who care about the mission and want to contribute hands-on.
Pitch an idea or choose a scoped project. Light onboarding included.
We’ll reply within one week, scope a project, and share a Notion board to get started.
Student volunteers
Students build real projects in marketing, product, design, research, data, and more.
Choose an area; we scope a project and onboard you. Typical time: 3–5 hrs/week.
We’ll reply within one week, scope a project aligned to your studies, and share a Notion board.
Role catalog by capability area
Explore the capability areas and pick where you want to contribute.
Product & Operations – Safety flows, onboarding, verification
Turn scattered ideas into a simple, focused plan. You will help decide what matters most for trust and safety and shape a small roadmap slice we can ship quickly.
Focuses our effort on high‑leverage trust features.
Talk to students, find the rough edges, and show us where they get stuck. You will turn interviews into a short, practical brief with clear fixes.
Turns interviews into improvements to onboarding and matching.
Make onboarding feel effortless. You will set up simple checklists and reminders and document a small playbook we can reuse as we grow.
Ensures students complete verification and profiles smoothly.
Engineering & Data – Trustworthy features, data-informed matching
Ship small, meaningful improvements. Pick scoped issues, tidy up UX and safety flows, and get clean PRs merged.
Ships user‑facing improvements to reliability and trust.
Help us measure what "good match" means. Define simple metrics, run a lightweight experiment, and share what moves the needle.
Improves match quality with statistics and experimentation.
Keep the foundation safe and visible. Review RLS, add basic dashboards, and leave us with clearer guardrails.
Keeps RLS/security and observability tight.
Design & Experience – Identity, UX research, content design
Shape a simple, confident identity. Explore color, type, and basic tokens so the product and marketing feel like one.
Builds a trustworthy identity across light/dark and marketing.
Listen to students and turn empathy into action. Map the messy parts and suggest a short list of fixes we can ship quickly.
Finds friction and helps reduce verification/onboarding drop‑off.
Make the product speak clearly. Tweak microcopy so safety and onboarding steps feel human and easy to follow.
Guides users through safety and onboarding steps with clear copy.
Marketing & Community – Growth experiments, campus ambassadors, support
Turn curiosity into experiments. Design a small test, run it, and show what works to reach the right students.
Designs experiments that drive qualified student signups.
Be the spark on campus. Help students hear about Domu Match, plan simple activations, and gather honest feedback.
Builds trust/awareness on campus.
Keep the conversation kind and clear. Answer questions, set a friendly tone, and document a small support cadence.
Answers questions quickly and builds trust.
Trust & Safety / Admissions – Anti‑fraud, policy, partner relations
Design simple, effective checks that keep people safe. Document a straightforward verification flow and the tools we need.
Designs anti‑fraud processes to keep users safe.
Make the rules easy to follow. Summarize key privacy and housing requirements and recommend what we must do next.
Ensures privacy and housing compliance.
Open the first doors. Prepare a short partner list, script initial outreach, and help us start a few real conversations.
Connects with universities and housing partners.
Current focus and open priorities
Plug in where it matters most right now.
Reduce friction in verification and profile completion.
Define metrics and improve suggestion relevance.
Shape outreach and partner-facing materials.
We don’t have a team yet—you’ll be in the builder seat.
Volunteer experience benefits
Grow your skills while contributing to a safety-first student platform.
What volunteers get
Ship real work with thoughtful review and support.
Student benefits
Learn by building on a live platform - research, design, analytics, and growth.
Why we do it
Safer, happier student housing - privacy‑first, accessible, evidence‑based.
Immediate priorities
Help where it counts now - your work ships fast.
Tell us how you want to help
Choose your track, share your skills and time commitment, and we’ll get back to you.
Founder-led review happens weekly. Once we scope your time, you’ll get a Notion board with project tasks and milestones.
We have zero volunteers right now—so you’ll set the tone. We review applications weekly and align on a scoped project before you commit.
Application process
- Apply with your track, skills, and interest
- 30‑min alignment sync with the founder
- Scoped project or issues to start contributing
We review applications weekly. Typical contributions are 3–5 hrs/week with clear deliverables.