University of Washington

 Academic CRM Platform Manager

University of Washington$79K — $119K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years in program or product management, especially in higher education IT or enrollment technology.
  • Experience owning a technology platform, managing a product roadmap and platform requests.
  • Ability to balance competing requests and translate governance priorities into actionable directions.
  • Experience managing a shared platform supporting multiple independent customer groups.
  • Skills in facilitating prioritization and maintaining trust across stakeholders.
  • Strong communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical dialogues.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main contact for enrollment management partners, nurturing ongoing relationships.
  • Plan Academic CRM Governance Committee meetings and support decision-making processes.
  • Document governance outcomes and create actionable implementation plans with the team.
  • Develop and manage intake processes for partner requests, distinguishing routine from escalated issues.
  • Coordinate day-to-day service delivery and issue resolution across the platform.
  • Lead onboarding projects for new institutional customers, facilitating smooth implementation.
  • Maintain platform standards and support service level agreement frameworks.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours and location to accommodate personal commitments.
  • Opportunity to work in a hybrid, open office environment.
  • Participation in a dynamic and impactful tech environment serving multiple campuses and units.
  • Support from a large IT organization with access to extensive technological resources.
  • Engagement with various institutional partners, enhancing professional network and experience.
Full Job Description

Job Description

UW Information Technology (UW-IT) has an outstanding opportunity for Academic CRM Platform Manager to join their team.

About this Opportunity

Reporting to Manager of Program Operations, the Academic CRM Platform Manager (PM) will serve as the primary platform and partner-facing lead for the university's centrally managed Slate CRM environment, supporting admissions and enrollment management (EM) operations acrossthe tri-campusundergraduate, graduate, professional schools, and continuing education partner units. The platform manager serves as theconduitbetween the enterprise governance structure for Academic CRM and the technical team that delivers platform services, translating governance decisions into actionableserviceteam direction, managing the intake and prioritization of platform work, and coordinating the evaluation and rollout of newvendorfeatures in alignment with institutional priorities.

The PM engages with a wide range of colleagues within SETS, UWIT, and across the tri-campus community, and works closely with service and project managers, integration engineers, business analysts,universityleadership, and institutional governance bodies.

While the general working hours are within Monday through Friday, 8 am - 5 pm, the position has a great deal of scheduling and location flexibility to help manage non-work commitments. The position at times must be willing to adjust hours to accommodate the needs of staff, colleagues, clients, and stakeholders. Events that will occur outside the normal work schedule include, but are not limited to, meetings with staff, clients, or stakeholders. This position has regular stringent deadlines revolving around the academic calendar that may require extended work hours.

The salary information provided below is for a full-time position.

Key Responsibilities

Partner RelationshipManagement andFacilitation(40%)

 Serve as the primary point of contact forenrollment management partner units, managing ongoing relationshipswithleadership

 Plan and facilitateAcademic CRM Governance Committee meetings and activities, providing resourcesandinformationto support decision-making, including technical feasibility, sequencing, and estimates

 Document governance outcomes andin collaboration withteam,convert decisions into scoped service team commitments and implementation plans

 Develop intake process and channels for all partnerunits; triage requestsdeterminewhich areroutine operationsandwhich requireescalationto governance

Platform Management and Service Delivery (45%)

 Coordinate with SETS service managersand engineers in delivery of day-to-day service, ensuring customers receivesupport across configuration, integrations, solution design, and tier 2/3 support requests

 Coordinate internallyon platform changes with SIS and enterprise data platform implications, owning stakeholder communication while engineering owns technical execution

 Lead or co-lead onboarding projects for new institutional customers, managing stakeholder engagement, project communications, and go-live coordination

 Serve as 3rd-tier support for escalation and resolution of platform issues, working withvendorrepresentatives as needed

Platform Standards, Compliance & Operational Excellence (15%)

 Partner with theservice manager,engineers,Academicdomain architect, and data governance and managementto develop and maintain platform standards, including field naming conventions, configuration patterns,integration design,data management policies, and change control processes.

 Support the Manager of Program Operations in defining and maintaining SLA frameworks, escalation paths, and service definitions for the platform.

Required Qualifications

To be considered for this opportunity your application must demonstrate you meet both the minimum qualifications and additional qualifications listed below. Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Informatics, Communications, Management and Organization, Information Systems, or relevant field or equivalent experience.

 Four or more yearsprogressively increasing responsibilityin program or product management, higher education IT, enrollment management technology, or a related field

 Experience owning a technology platform or service, including maintaining a product roadmap, managing a prioritized backlog of platform requests, coordinating release planning, and communicating platform direction to a diverse stakeholder audience.

 Demonstrated ability to balance competing requests and translate governance or stakeholder priorities into actionable direction for a technical delivery team.

 Experience managing a shared platform or service supporting multiple customer groups or organizational units with independent operational priorities, where no single stakeholder holds authority over platform direction.

 Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-unit prioritization equitably,maintaintransparency across a distributed stakeholder group, and sustain trust with partner leaders through competing demands and constrained delivery capacity.

 Demonstrated ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including explaining platform constraints and trade-offs to operational partners and translating business needs into direction for a technical delivery team.

 Strong project coordination skills with demonstrated experience managing concurrent workstreams across multiple institutional partners.

 Demonstrated excellent written and oral communication skills, technical documentation skills, user liaison skills, and interpersonal skills.

 Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and to work with minimal supervision in a fluid and dynamic environment with shifting deadlines and priorities.

 Applicants who do not meet these qualifications WILL NOT be forwarded to the Hiring Manager.

Preferred Qualifications

 Direct experience with Technolutions Slate, including familiarity with its release cycle, configuration model, and institutional user community.

 Experience in a major Higher Education institution,preferablythe University of Washington, especiallyregardingStudent Information Systems, Academic Services, and/or Student Administration.

 Experience in a shared services, platform team, or multi-institution IT environment.

 Experience developing and executing change management and communication plans for technology platforms or services, including coordinating adoption activities across multiple stakeholder groups with varying technical capacity.

 Familiarity with admissions operations and the enrollment management lifecycle,and student success and engagement.

 Background in product management, service ownership, or IT relationship management for enterprise platforms.

 Experience with data governance, FERPA compliance, or higher education information security practices as applied to enrollment or student data systems.

 Working knowledge or experience with servicemanagementandagile developmentmethodologies/concepts; experience managing a software-based service and understanding of the ITIL framework.

Working Conditions

Hybrid, open office environment.

This is an essential position and is required to report to work remotely when UW suspends operations.

About the Team

UW Information Technology (UWIT) is the central IT organization for the University of Washington (UW), providingcritical technology support to all three campuses, UW medical centers, and global research operations. Data & Applications (D&A) is the division in UWIT that runs the university academic and business systems, productivity platforms, enterprise integrations, learninganalyticsand data for decision-making and is also responsible for the accessibility of UW digital resources.Student & Educational Technology Services(SETS)supportssystems and applications thatenablethefullstudent and instructor lifecycleandevaluates, develops, integrates, and supports technologies that enable others to teach, learn, and innovate.Capabilities supportedinclude recruiting andadmissions, financial aid and student accounts, curriculum management, registration, teaching and learning, advisingand student success, and emerging technologies.

Compensation, Benefits and Position Details

Pay Range Minimum:

$79,404.00 annual

Pay Range Maximum:

$119,100.00 annual

Other Compensation:

-

Benefits:

For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Temporary or Regular?

This is a regular position

FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):

100.00%

Union/Bargaining Unit:

Not Applicable

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