Alumni are the founding voice of the Marqee community. An elevated badge in every server, speaker rights in your vertical, the warm-intro network as an ongoing benefit, quarterly VIP dinners, and continued access — even if your paid subscription lapses.
Most career services stop the day you sign the offer. That's the moment we think community starts. Once you've been Marqued, you become an alumnus of Marqee: an elevated badge in the community, speaker rights in the vertical we placed you in, permanent access to the warm-intro network, quarterly in-person dinners in the top ten metros, and an open door to mentor the next cohort if you want to. Nothing about that changes if you never renew your paid subscription. The alumni tier is lifetime by design.
Alumni show up differently. A distinct badge, a distinct color, and a distinct set of rights in every Marqee community surface — from vertical servers to cohort rooms to the intro graph.
Every alumnus wears the Marqued badge in every Marqee community surface — a small distinguisher next to your name in Discord, in Discourse, in the intro graph, and on the Marqued feed. It signals that you've been through a real end-to-end concierge engagement, that you were placed, and that you're vouched for by a Marqee strategist.
The badge is not tied to your active subscription and it doesn't expire. You keep it whether you go quiet for two years and come back, take a sabbatical, retire, or change verticals entirely.
Not a mailing list, not a discount code, not a monthly newsletter. Seven concrete rights and channels that sit above the regular community tier — most kick in on the day you sign the offer.
A visible Marqued badge next to your name across every vertical server and Discourse category — the room knows who's been placed, who ran the full engagement, and who's vouched for. Read differently, replied to differently.
You can host an AMA, run a workshop, or take the Tuesday hiring-manager slot in the vertical you were placed in without waiting for the moderation queue. Your former strategist co-signs; you own the room for the hour.
Permanent, unmetered access to the Marqee intro graph in your vertical. Request an intro to any node inside two hops; a strategist brokers, both sides opt in, and there is no cap on how many you can send while you are actively hiring or job-hunting again.
Opt in through your former strategist to be paired with one to three current searchers in your vertical. About 30 minutes a month — a live call, a résumé pass, or an intro. Nothing billed, nothing tracked, no leaderboard.
Four times a year, small in-person dinners in the top ten metros. Eight to twelve alumni per table plus a Marqee senior strategist. Off the record, no press, no employer pitching. RSVP-only, rotated so a new alum is always at the table.
Once a quarter, an alumni-only AMA with a headline guest — a founder mid-fundraise, a public-company GC, a CPO going through a re-org — the sort of conversation that would never happen on the public server. Recorded for alumni only, never posted publicly.
Your placement story goes into the Marqued feed with your consent — one-click cross-post to LinkedIn with a Marqee-drafted caption you approve. Optional; alumni control every word before it publishes and can retract at any time.
Every Marqee server runs weekly programming: Monday office hours, Tuesday hiring-manager AMA, Wednesday résumé clinic, Thursday mocks, Friday employer showcase. Regular members pitch to be on the calendar. Alumni skip the queue in the vertical they were placed in and pick a slot directly with the mod team.
An AMA on your placement journey, a workshop on the interview loop you actually beat, or a live take-home walkthrough in the format your vertical uses. Format is yours; mods handle logistics.
The single vertical server you were placed in. Cross-posted to the Marqued feed and (optionally) LinkedIn. Adjacent verticals can invite you as a guest with mod approval.
Your former strategist takes the co-host slot on your first alumni session and hands you the room by minute five. After that, you can host solo whenever you want.
The warm-intro network is the single most-used alumni benefit and it is built to keep working long after your Marqee engagement ends. Every alumnus keeps unmetered access, in every direction.
Open the alumni intro panel, type the person or the target company, and describe the ask in one paragraph. The panel shows you every node in the graph within two hops — including which strategist can broker.
Your former strategist sees it first; if they're the wrong broker, they pass it to a colleague inside 24 hours. Nothing is sent to the other side until the broker has re-read your ask and confirmed the target is likely to say yes.
The target is asked in writing — with your one-paragraph ask attached and a preview of your profile — whether they want the intro. Silence is a no. Nothing is sent until both sides have said yes.
You never draft the intro. The broker writes it, cc's both sides, and vouches specifically — because they know you both. Alumni get the highest broker-vouched conversion rate in the network.
Two weeks later the broker checks in with both sides. What worked, what didn't, whether the intro should route the same way next time. The graph learns per-alum, per-vertical, per-strategist — it doesn't decay.
Alumni mentorship is the second-most requested benefit — from current searchers who want to hear how someone in their shoes made it through. We built it to be light on the mentor and useful to the mentee.
Send one line: "I want to mentor." Your strategist matches you with one to three current searchers in your vertical inside seven days. You can pause any time; you can name maximums; you can request specific profiles.
One 20-minute live call plus a couple of async responses to specific questions. Not a coaching engagement; not a résumé-review sweatshop. Small, specific, useful — the way you wanted a mentor when you were searching.
Mentors don't do free career coaching, don't cold-intro mentees into their network, and don't refer them to Marqee. Warm intros still go through the broker; strategy still comes from the strategist. You bring lived experience, not a second job.
Four times a year, the ten top metros. Small tables. No press, no employers pitching, no photos posted anywhere. The one alumni ritual that only exists in a room, not on a screen.
Eight to twelve alumni per table, one senior Marqee strategist, a private room, and a bar tab we pay for. RSVP-only, capped, rotated so a new alumnus is always at the table.
The alumni tier is lifetime. We built the boundary deliberately: your paid concierge subscription is for running a search; your alumni access is for having been through one. They come apart cleanly.
| Access | Alumni (paid or lapsed) | Regular member (subscription lapsed) |
|---|---|---|
| Marqued badge in every server | Kept — lifetime | N/A — never earned |
| Speaker rights in your vertical | Kept — lifetime | None |
| Warm-intro network access | Unmetered, permanent | Removed at lapse |
| Quarterly alumni dinners | Invited every cycle | Not invited |
| Alumni-only AMAs | Live + recording access | None |
| Mentorship program (opt-in) | Available as mentor | Not available |
| Discord vertical servers | Full access, member-only channels | Public channels only, no members-only |
| Cohort re-entry as facilitator | Invited to co-facilitate | Not eligible |
Placement stories used to be trapped inside the strategist's head. Now they go into the Marqued feed and — if the alumnus wants — onto LinkedIn with a caption we drafted for you and you approved.
"I started with Marqee thinking I'd get help with the résumé. What I got was a full loop — targeting, outreach through the side door, a hiring-manager warm intro, and a pass on the offer negotiation. The interview loop was three companies at once. I picked the one I wanted."
"The agency-to-in-house transition kills most designers because the interview loops don't map. My Marqee strategist ran a full portfolio rewrite for in-house scope, put me in front of two heads of design who'd made the same jump, and helped me negotiate a title that opens the next door."
Nothing goes to the Marqued feed or LinkedIn without your explicit approval on the final caption. Retract, edit, or delete at any time — the graph forgets on request.
Anyone who has completed a Marqee concierge engagement — meaning we ran the search on your behalf and it ended in a signed offer, or an intentional pause that you and your strategist agreed to. Alumni status is not tied to the tier you were on, not tied to the length of the engagement, and not tied to whether you renewed. Once you've been Marqued, you carry the badge for life.
Yes. Once you've been Marqued, your alumni membership is lifetime and free. You keep the warm-intro network, speaker rights in your vertical, the alumni dinners, the alumni-only AMAs, and every alumni channel — even if you never renew paid concierge service. The only thing you lose when the subscription lapses is the ability to have a new active search run for you by a strategist.
In the vertical you were placed in, you can host an AMA, run a workshop, take the Tuesday hiring-manager slot, or lead a résumé clinic without applying for a slot. The mod team gives you a calendar; you pick. Your former strategist co-signs the first session and steps back for the rest. Adjacent verticals can invite you as a guest with mod approval.
It is opt-in. If you want to mentor incoming cohort members, you tell your former strategist and get paired with one to three current searchers in your vertical inside seven days. Commitment is about 30 minutes a month — one 20-minute call plus a couple of async replies. Nothing is billed, nothing is tracked, no leaderboard. You can pause, cap, or step out at any time.
Small — eight to twelve alumni around one table, plus a senior Marqee strategist. A private room in a good restaurant, no press, no photos posted anywhere, no employer pitching. RSVPs are capped and rotated so a new alumnus is always at the table. We pay for the meal and the bar tab. Alumni pay for nothing.
Yes. Alumni get a one-click cross-post from the Marqued feed to LinkedIn with a Marqee-drafted caption, tagged with the vertical and the strategist who ran your engagement. You review and approve every word before it publishes — nothing goes out without your explicit sign-off. You can retract at any time; the feed forgets on request.
No — alumni status only comes from completing a Marqee engagement. You can nominate people you'd like to see in the community (as regular members or into the executive tier), and you can invite people to your alumni dinner as a plus-one, but the Marqued badge itself is earned through the concierge engagement, not conferred by another alum.
Yes, and it's smooth. Alumni get a fast re-onboarding into concierge service — same strategist if they're still on staff, same intro graph, same vertical positioning. Because the graph never forgot you, we don't restart the discovery phase; we pick up where we left off.
Alumni access is lifetime, unmetered, and free. The Marqued badge goes on the day your placement closes.
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