Product Operations Manager, Studocu
Marketplace
+ Equity scheme in the form of SAR
2-5 days a week in office (Keizersgracht, Amsterdam)
Educational materials platform for students
Be an early applicant
Educational materials platform for students
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity scheme in the form of SAR
2-5 days a week in office (Keizersgracht, Amsterdam)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to excel at their studies by providing the best tools to study more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years of experience in a similar growth-focused role with demonstrable experience working with Tech and Product user-focused companies (ideally consumer facing marketplaces)
- Strong business acumen with an adept understanding how product decisions impact the bottom line, and you proactively seek ways to unlock growth and efficiency across the business
- Strong analytical skills; you are fluent in SQL, comfortable exploring large datasets, and know how to translate data into narrative
- You embody the entrepreneurial mindset: you have a hands-on approach, you move fast and in an autonomous and resolute way, you are capable of building things from scratch, and most importantly: you never give up!
- Exceptional cross-functional communicator; able to align stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and move initiatives forward in ambiguity
- Strategic thinker with bias for action as you can zoom out to shape direction but also thrive in the details
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-changing conditions. You are used to working within cross-functional and diverse teams in a digital, fluid environment
- Experience in similar EdTech B2C roles would be a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a seasoned Operations Manager to come in and help manage our marketplace(s) at scale
- If you thrive at the intersection of product, data, and operations; and know what it takes to scale and manage high-volume B2C marketplaces then this role is for you
- You'll work in tight partnership with the Product team and sit at the heart of the business
- From managing marketplace health, launching growth experiments, to unearthing data insights that drive roadmap decisions; you’ll be our marketplace brain and engine
- Marketplace Performance: Own key health metrics (content, traffic, revenue), diagnose inefficiencies, and work cross-functionally to drive improvements
- Operational and Process Efficiency: Build a strong and healthy culture of operational excellence, velocity and cost efficiency
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, tech, marketing, and operations teams to implement initiatives to achieve business objectives
- Marketplace experimentation: Partner with Product and Data to design, run, and analyze A/B tests that improve marketplace dynamics and user experience
- Data Analysis: Conduct deep data analyses to identify the opportunities for growth in our business across all sides of the marketplace
- Growth levers: Identify and launch new opportunities for growth and marketplace expansion on both supply (traffic) and demand (content)
- Be at the helm of our core business function during
- Collaborate with a high-performing Product, Tech and Data team where your input directly shapes the roadmap
- Work at a mission-driven EdTech company improving learning access and outcomes for millions of students worldwide
- Ownership to influence all sides of the business with little bureaucracy
- The workload is diverse, touching on many different functional subjects
Our take
High quality notes and resources are necessary at every level of education, but at times personal notes can be incomplete or missing details. The founders of Studocu have created a platform that allows students to share notes, resources and study materials, that now holds materials from universities across the world.
With millions of users every month accessing the platform, there is undeniable demand for Studocu's services. Much of the company's popularity may be ascribed to its freemium model, which keeps 85% of its content free to access. The other 15% can be accessed by students who either upload their own study materials or pay a fee.
Studocu has seen impressive investment which has enabled it to expand substantially. It also acquired Studybees, its German counterpart, to support this expansion. In 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam filed a lawsuit against the company which will be interesting to follow, as it surrounds whether Studocu should have to proactively screen materials for copyright breaches, rather than its current report/takedown approach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Aug 2019
$4.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.8m
Company benefits
- Equity scheme in the form of SAR
- Gifts
- Pension scheme
- Referral rewards
- 24 days of paid leave per year
- Option to buy unpaid leave
- Special occasions paid leave (e.g. moving day)
- Annual hackathons
- In-house dutch lessons
- In-house L&D workshops
- Personal L&D budget of €2,500 per year
- Annual company trip
- Sports subscription with OneFit
- Travel card (NS business) if you live outside of A10 ring road
- Hybrid work set up between home and office
- Lots of company events and team-building activities
- Lunch in our office prepared by our Chef Valentijn
- One floor with a garden and the other with a canal view!
- Open bar = Friday Drinks!
- Option to work up to 4 weeks per calendar year from abroad
- Pet-friendly office (with a no-pets zone)
- Snacks are on us
- Work From Home setup budget of €800 via Workwize
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Reynald Fasciaux
(CEO)Has been with the company for five years, first as COO then CEO. Before that, they were Head of Product Operations (EMEA) at ofo and Head of Customer Insights (EMEA) at Uber.
Marnix Broer
(Co-Founder & Chair of the Board)Advisory Board Member at Brandsolo. Previously co-founded TentamenTrainingen.
Sander Kuijk
(Co-Founder & DevOps)Was a Full-stack Developer at GraphicsGurus. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
Lucas van den Houten
(Co-Founder & CPO)Was previously CTO at the company. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
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