Program Manager

Rockstar

$90K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional experience, including 2 years in PK-12 charter school operations or administration.
  • Strong project management skills to prioritize and manage multiple clients during onboarding and implementation.
  • Creative problem-solving skills with a customer-centric mindset for addressing stakeholder needs.
  • Quantitative skills, including experience in data analysis and presenting findings to non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort with sales and marketing, such as leading product demos and discussing account expansions.
  • Excellent written and oral communication abilities.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with an ability to thrive in a startup environment and handle ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Lead implementation projects for new charter customers, managing project plans and deliverables.
  • Provide post-launch customer support through training and troubleshooting, including software and data analysis.
  • Assist in business development to bring in new clients and deepen existing relationships.
  • Contribute to various operational tasks required in a growing startup environment.

Benefits

  • Work in a semi-remote environment with hubs in San Francisco, CA, and Boston, MA.
  • Join a passionate team focused on improving education, equity, and social impact.
Full Job Description
Location: San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA (Semi-remote organization with hubs in both cities)

Role Overview

The Client Services team is expanding to serve new and existing charter school clients. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in charter school enrollment/operations and is also technically adept - someone ready to share their expertise and best practices with others while also eager to go deep into software configurations and data analysis.
Responsibilities
  • 60% Implementation - Lead implementation projects with new charter customers, developing and managing the project plan and deliverables.
  • 15% Customer Support - Directly support multiple customers post-launch with their use of the platform, through training, troubleshooting issues, software configuration, data manipulation and analysis, and identifying opportunities for improving their processes.
  • 15% Business Development - Support efforts to bring in new clients and expand relationships with existing clients.
  • 10% Operational - As a growing startup, everyone pitches in to do whatever it takes to build the organization.


Qualifications
  • Core Competency: Strength and experience in each of the above job responsibilities.
  • Professional Experience: 4+ years of professional experience, at least 2 of which are in PK-12 charter school/CMO operations or administration.
  • Project Management: Adept at prioritizing and managing a high volume of concurrent clients across different stages of onboarding, implementation, and renewal.
  • Customer-Centric Mindset: Creative problem-solving skills; proven record of negotiating competing (and conflicting) stakeholder perspectives; ability to balance customer requests with product priorities and business needs.
  • Quantitative Skills: Experience gathering and cleaning data, analyzing large datasets, and presenting results/insights to a non-technically savvy audience.
  • Commercial Comfort: Comfort with engaging in sales and marketing functions: leading product demos, boothing at events, managing account renewals, discussing expansion opportunities with existing clients, and so forth.
  • Communication: Excellent communicator, including written and oral.
  • Startup Alignment: Entrepreneurial spirit and drive, extraordinary comfort with ambiguity, enjoyment wearing many hats.
  • Mindset: Among the best at what you do with a growth mindset and desire to constantly improve.
  • Values: Passion for education, equity, and social impact.
  • Eligibility: Legal ability to work in the US and willingness to work continental US hours.


Nice To Haves

Strong preference for candidates with one or more of the following skillsets:
  • Experience with student enrollment and/or student recruitment.
  • Experience managing multiple clients simultaneously.
  • Experience collaborating with technical teams (e.g., software engineering, IT).
  • Experience with a statistical software package (e.g., Stata, SAS, SPSS, R).

Salary Range
  • $90,000 - $130,000 a year

Note on salary range: Upper end of the salary range is intended for candidates with 5+ years as an enrollment leader at a large charter management organization (CMO).

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