Full-Time

Senior Manager

Integrated Marketing

Posted on 9/9/2025

Empowerly

Empowerly

201-500 employees

Guides students through college admissions

Compensation Overview

$100k - $160k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

Category
Growth & Marketing (6)
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Required Skills
Hubspot
Requirements
  • A bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
  • 8+ years of proven experience in a similar integrated marketing or lifecycle marketing role, preferably in the education or service industry.
  • Strong analytical skills with a knack for data-driven decision-making.
  • Familiarity with marketing automation platforms, CRM systems particularly Hubspot, and various testing methodologies.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Problem-solver who can thrive in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
  • Strong project management skills with experience leading complex, cross-functional projects, such as website redesigns or large-scale product launches.
Responsibilities
  • Lifecycle Marketing Strategy & Optimization: Develop and oversee the strategy for the entire customer journey. This includes mapping key touchpoints, nurturing prospective customers from awareness through to sales handoff, and defining all post-sales process engagement. You will also design and manage A/B testing and holdout tests to continually optimize campaigns and communications for maximum effectiveness
  • Team and Resource Management: Lead and mentor the lifecycle marketing team, ensuring their work aligns with strategic goals. You will also collaborate with other teams to manage shared resources and cross-functional project
  • Sales and Marketing Alignment: Collaborate closely with our sales team on lead nurture and lead infrastructure. You'll work together to define and manage lead scoring models and processes, ensuring a smooth handoff from marketing to sales
  • Shared Marketing Services: Manage and oversee cross-functional, collaborative marketing support, including website strategy, performance analysis, and the creation of new collateral and web pages to support marketing, B2B, and sales initiatives
  • Brand Management: Act as a brand champion by maintaining our brand guidelines. You'll ensure all creative assets and communications have the proper look and feel, ensuring a consistent brand experience across all channels
  • Public Relations: Manage public relations agency efforts to enhance brand reputation and drive awareness
Desired Qualifications
  • Advanced education (MBA, Reforge, or equivalent training) is a plus but not required.
  • Experience with positioning, messaging, GTM launches, etc.
  • Background in education, edtech, etc

Empowerly provides college admissions counseling for high school students, offering one-on-one video coaching, test preparation, and programs to strengthen academic and extracurricular profiles for top colleges. It works by matching students with experienced counselors who guide them through a step-by-step admissions plan, covering essays, interviews, and overall strategy, with options via subscription packages or one-time services; it also runs specialized programs like Startup Internship, Research Scholar, and AI Scholar, and sells a handbook on admissions. The company differentiates itself through a high success rate and an experienced team, including co-founder Hanmei Wu and Harvard-educated Francisco. Its goal is to help students gain admission to elite colleges through personalized, comprehensive guidance and proven admissions strategies.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$26.6M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Mobile app launch expands accessibility to tech-savvy Gen Z students beyond desktop counseling platform.
  • $30M total funding enables AI product development and recruitment of top admissions talent.
  • 98% college acceptance rate and 5,000+ students served create strong brand moat in competitive market.

What critics are saying

  • Supreme Court affirmative action ban eliminates holistic review focus, rendering extracurricular programs less valuable.
  • Free AI tools from Khan Academy and Duolingo commoditize essay editing and admissions prediction services.
  • Competitors like Crimson Education's 2,500+ tutors and AI matching outpace Empowerly's counselor recruitment pace.

What makes Empowerly unique

  • Proprietary Empowerly Score™ uses machine learning to evaluate extracurriculars, academics, and essays against predictive models.
  • Team of 100+ counselors with 700+ years combined experience, including former Ivy League admissions officers.
  • Exclusive programs like Startup Internships and Research Scholars connect students with real-world Bay Area opportunities.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

1%
FinSMEs
Feb 21st, 2024
Empowerly Raises $15M in Funding

Empowerly raises $15M in funding.

TechCrunch
Feb 21st, 2024
Empowerly secures $15M for its college counseling services

Empowerly has raised $30 million to date.

TechCrunch
Feb 21st, 2024
Empowerly Secures $15M For Its College Counseling Services

Empowerly, an edtech startup that specializes in college counseling and career guidance services, raised $15 million in a recent funding round led by Conductive Ventures, the company announced today. The new capital will go toward growing its services, building out its AI-powered products and developing its first mobile app, which is set to launch in the U.S. by the end of 2024. Empowerly has raised $30 million to date.“The past year has been challenging for the entire startup ecosystem, and some are saying this has been one of the worst funding environments in the past decade,” co-founder Changxiao Xie says. “This round is a testament to the platform and services we’ve created, from our recruitment of former Ivy League admissions officers to the ways we’ve leveraged data and machine learning to evaluate and improve students’ outcomes from high school to college and beyond. We’re working with more students and families than ever before and seeing fantastic outcomes year over year, and are excited to keep up the momentum.”The company’s funding comes at a time when admissions season is becoming more competitive than ever, and high school counselors aren’t always equipped to provide expert advice on college-related issues

From Day One
Nov 14th, 2023
College Admissions Counseling: An Employee Benefit That Can Boost Productivity

So Livingston, who is now the head of counselors, joined Empowerly.

GlobeNewswire
Apr 12th, 2023
MyKlovr named finalist in 3 categories of the 2023 EdTech

Earlier this year, myKlovr partnered with college counseling platform Empowerly to launch Pathways, an AI-enabled solution to support teen mental health and bring affordable college & career planning benefits to employers at scale.

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