Program Manager, Empowerly
College admissions counseling
Open for applications
College admissions counseling
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower students to be the most successful version of themselves.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor Science or Bachelor of Arts
- 3+ years of experience in Program or Project Management
- 2+ years of management experience
- Experience with all Google tools, including Google Sheets and Google Drive
- Experience in data analysis and creation of performance dashboards
- Highly structured and organized thinker
- Willingness to engage and learn
- Tech savvy
- Experience working with or at startups
- Experience working in EdTech
- Familiarity with education technology industry and the challenges and demands it places on leaders and teams
- Experience with Airtable, WorkRamp, and Zendesk are a plus
What the job involves
- Empowerly offers in-house ancillary programs and partnerships with services such as summer programs, research internships, tutoring programs, and more
- The Program Manager will lead the Operations Support behind Empowerly’s ancillary programs and partnerships. You will wear many hats, make quick decisions, and create processes from ambiguity. You aren’t afraid to dig in the weeds and use data to come up with solutions to complex problems
- The Program Manager will work cross functionally with Marketing, Sales, Product, and Engineering to create and refine processes, build automations, and scale these partnership programs to accommodate thousands of students
- Lead and implement all ancillary Empowerly programs as service offerings grow
- Act as the liaison between Empowerly and 2+ partnership programs that Empowerly students work with
- Manage programs team and contractor teams who will help maintain program relationships and interact with students
- Own the end-to-end process of bringing the Research Scholars Program in house, including mentor sourcing and onboarding, program structure, and quality control
- Recruit, onboard, and manage startup companies participating in the Startup Internship Program
- Manage both short term and long term operational strategy and proactively anticipate the needs of our programs as our student base grows exponentially
- Ensure overall program health, including establishing internal quality controls metrics and assessments, bench analysis and expansion, and alignment with company priorities
- Provide regular data reporting, sharing insights on the programs’ success rates and outputs
- Source, vet, and onboard new programs
- Design, present, and implement training resources for counselors to share services with existing students and help onboard them to new programs
- Work closely with Marketing and Sales Teams to create training documentation on how to speak about Empowerly ancillary programs and attract new students and families
Our take
In the competitive college admissions landscape, students face pressure to navigate the process effectively. Empowerly steps in to address this challenge, recognizing the inadequacy of traditional high school counseling services in providing specialized guidance amid skyrocketing application rates.
Empowerly's approach combines personalized counseling, AI-powered technology, and a suite of services to empower students in their pursuit of higher education. By leveraging proprietary algorithms such as the Empowerly Score, the company offers a holistic assessment of students' strengths and areas for improvement, guiding them towards enhancing their college application strategically.
Bolstered by strong funding, Empowerly continues to pursue expansion and innovation. For example, it has launched a mobile app and has been working to enhance its AI-powered products, in order to cater to the evolving needs of students and families.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2024
$15m
EARLY VC
Feb 2022
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $26.6m
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Changxiao X.
(Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering at Princeton. They previously worked on building tradting systems on Wall Street, Machine Learning at Facebook, and researched NLP techniques for disinformation detection.
Hanmei Wu
(Co-Founder)Graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Business Administration. Previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Teach for America prior to founding Empowerly.
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