Please note: We’d prefer the candidate to be in San Francisco, CA but we’re open to remote candidates. Springboard is only able to consider candidates located in the following US states: Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, or Texas.
The Company
At Springboard, we’re on a mission to bridge the world’s skills gap, offering transformative online education in data science, UI/UX design, machine learning, and coding. Our courses may be tech-enabled, but we’re ultimately human-centric: each student taps into a vast community throughout their time with us, engaging with fellow students, industry-expert mentors, student advisors, and career coaches, the goal of which is to successfully transition students into their dream job. Through this approach, we’ve helped thousands of learners revamp their careers and, by extension, their lives, with hundreds of top-notch job offers received every year.
Salary range:
$115,000 - $145,000 USD per year
Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.
The Opportunity
This role is ideal for someone who wants to apply an analytical, strategic toolkit to a growing, fast-paced, startup environment. You will join the Business Operations & Strategy team, where you will work alongside ex-MBB team members on projects critical to achieving Springboard’s mission. Your work will be a mix of solving the company’s toughest strategic problems, implementing and project managing new initiatives, and supporting ops teams. Your work will carry across all of our product and ops teams, and you’ll develop relationships throughout the org, including frequent interaction with Springboard’s founders and exec team. Example projects may include:
Product Strategy and Execution
- Conducting research to guide expansion strategy into new subject areas and courses
- Project managing to take a new pilot or initiative from concept to implementation
New Business Development
- Exploring new delivery models (e.g., B2B; Public sector contracts)
- Defining how to launch and grow a new B2B training segment; or international offering
Operations teams and CEO/Board support
- Designing new features to better serve students, improve retention and protect job outcomes
- Assisting the CEO with fundraising / diligence / board materials
What we’re looking for:
- You have ~1.5 - 3 years of experience at a top consulting firm.
- You have strong analytical skills and can extract insights from unstructured data.
- You are independent and self-directed. You can take on a lot of responsibility and ownership quickly and love to get things done. You have a bias for action and aren’t afraid to be scrappy
- You value the team experience, care about forming relationships with coworkers, and pursue interests and hobbies outside of work. You care about sustainability in your work and life.
- You are a lifelong learner that’s passionate about education and/or helping others realize their full potential via meaningful career changes.
The Springboard team of 220 works out of offices in the heart of San Francisco and Bengaluru. We’re backed by top investors, including Costanoa Ventures, Reach Capital, Learn Capital, Pearson Ventures, and the founders of LinkedIn and Princeton Review.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy competitive compensation, health insurance coverage, a 401k plan, generous learning and professional development budgets, and an opportunity to impact thousands of lives alongside a fun, dedicated and mission-driven team. To learn more about our team and culture, follow us on Instagram @springboardlife!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
California Privacy Rights Notice for Job Applicants
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), Springboard is required to inform California residents who are job applicants about the categories of personal information we collect about you and the purposes for which we will use this information. This
notice contains disclosures required by the CCPA and applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA.
