Where human connection drives professional development

Welcome to opal 🤩

Join the community

We believe professional development starts with human connection.

Whether through story-sharing, resource-exchanging, or (our favorite) mentoring, to learn and grow takes a village. Our Slack Community offers job- and industry-specific networking, spot mentorship, peer mentorship, and exclusive access to new Opal programs and updates.

Find your match

At our core, we’re all about mentorship.

We host 4-week GEM Programs to pair people together for mentorship, but you can find around-the-clock mentorship opportunities within our Slack Community.

Partner with us

We know that collaboration and community make the world go round.

Let’s work together to make mentorship and career development as accessible and fun as possible. We’ll co-host programs and events, provide a designated channel for you within our community, and share our collaborations broadly.

  • "Working with Opal made matching our mentors/mentees a breeze. Instead of searching through our survey results one by one we were able to see all of our potential matches in one place. The Opal team was very responsive and eager to lend a helping hand throughout the process!"

    Clara Kinney, Santa Clara University Math & CS Club Board Member

Mariah Manzano, Co-founder & CEO

“We envisioned a space where anyone could come to participate in or host their own mentorship programs so that there were no barriers to finding the perfect mentor. Along came Opal. ”

Follow our journey

🌟 MENTOR SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Meet Rania Ansari, Site Reliability Engineer at Bay Area startup Graphiant and one of the amazing mentors in our recent GEM Program for Software Engineers 👩🏽‍💻 Rania credits her interest in mentoring to her interest in
To students or job-seekers 👇 ✨ JOIN OUR RESUME BOOKLET ✨ When you join our community, you’ll also have the opportunity to join our Resume Booklet. We share the booklet with partners & recruiters looking to hire and reach out to folk
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Mentors make our Opal-verse go ‘round, so we’re sharing the 3 ways to mentor with us 💫 ✨ PART 2: BECOME A SUPER MENTOR 🦸 Our community includes students & industry professionals interested in connecting for professional devel
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🌟 MENTOR SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Meet Apurva, Senior Software Engineer at Meta and one of the amazing mentors in our GEM Program for Software Engineers 👩🏽‍💻 Apurva’s been both a mentee and mentor, and she believes that mentors can “ha
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🌟 MENTOR SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Meet Chelsea Villanueva, #Microsoft consultant and one of the amazing mentors in our GEM Program for Software Engineers 👩🏽‍💻 Chelsea’s not new to mentorship and leadership, as she led retreats in high school, con