This listing is a template and example of how you can showcase your parenting experience using Parent Inc. as your company page. Feel free to copy, adapt, and customize it to reflect your own parenting journey. This is part of a social movement to make invisible labor visible — and professional.
Location: Global / On-Site (a.k.a. your home, your car, your life)
Type: Full-time, unpaid, and life-changing
Department: Everything
As Chief Operating Parent, you are responsible for running day-to-day operations of a dynamic, emotionally intense, 24/7 environment. You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team (children) through development, crisis resolution, learning, and moral growth. You will be the glue, the engine, and the entire board of directors — with a side of snack logistics.
- Lead the emotional, physical, and logistical well-being of household team members
- Develop and maintain systems for hygiene, sleep, education, nutrition, and conflict resolution
- Schedule, coordinate, and execute multiple overlapping activities with zero buffer time
- Mediate interpersonal conflicts with compassion and diplomacy
- Adapt rapidly to unexpected changes in mood, energy, or snack inventory
- Model resilience, communication, problem-solving, and growth mindset
- Maintain documentation (school forms, medical records, birthday calendars, etc.)
- Ensure safety protocols are in place for toys, stairs, emotions, and mental health
- Serve as primary liaison with external partners (teachers, caregivers, medical staff)
- Excellent time management, prioritization, and multitasking
- Emotional regulation under pressure (tantrums, sleepless nights, school email threads)
- Experience in negotiation, de-escalation, and empathetic leadership
- Budgeting skills (money, time, energy)
- Strong communication and storytelling abilities
- Decision-making with little to no information
- No formal education required — lived experience is everything
- Full-time, open-ended
- 24/7 on-call
- No weekends off (unless you negotiate well)
- Ability to recite favorite books from memory
- Emergency diaper bag logistics
- Advanced snack-for-peace strategy
- Mastery in improvisation and bedtime negotiation
- Capacity to give simultaneous hugs, answers, and directions
If you relate to this, you’ve been doing the work.
Now you can name it, own it, and add it to your LinkedIn profile under Parent Inc.
💼 Your care is your career. Let’s make it visible. www.linkedin.com/company/parentinc