Join us to Build the Future of Education

About Springboard

Springboard has a bold vision for transforming education and bridging the skills gap: we’re building a new kind of online school. Education is no longer a one-off, full-time investment; it's a lifelong pursuit which should be tailored to individual goals, needs, and capacity. We empower our students to thrive in this new world order by delivering high-quality education, with a focus on real career outcomes.

Our programs — in cutting-edge subjects like data science, business analytics and UX design — are founded upon best-in-class curricula, rich in project-based pedagogy. In addition, learners receive ongoing mentorship from industry experts, plus outstanding support and career services.

We’re backed by awesome investors (including the founders of LinkedIn and Princeton Review), and we’re growing quickly as a team, a company, and a community. We’ve helped thousands of people already, and we’re hiring so we can achieve our ambitious goal of touching millions of lives!


About The Team

Our team is passionate about education, technology and social change. We look out for each other. We take on big challenges — setting strategy and direction, executing against audacious goals — in service of our first priority: our students’ success. We’re excited to get to work everyday, as much for the problems we’re solving as for the culture that holds us together (from lunch-and-learn sessions to a deep love for food and Slack emoji). Come join us!


Job Perks

• Location: We’re in the heart of the city in San Francisco and Bangalore.
• Healthcare: Fully covered health plans.
• Fun: The team loves to go out to the best movies, mini-golf, and music gigs in town. We also travel together ~2x / year on company offsites.
• Wellness: Flexible work hours and vacation policy.
• Learning: A sweet stipend every year for learning (anything, from Japanese to photography!).
• Eats: Team lunches, snacks, coffee, and beer!
• Valuable startup experience and the opportunity to have outsized impact on a fast-growing company working to make global change.

Operations & Marketing

• Mentor Recruiter
  

  San Francisco

  Role:

  The greatest strength of Springboard’s model of education is the mentorship from our unmatched community of industry experts, which includes designers, analysts, and data scientists at premier consulting firms, Fortune 500 companies, and top-notch startups (e.g. AirBnb, Uber, McKinsey, Apple, Capital One). As a Mentor Recruiter, your job will be to recruit exceptional mentors for our programs and help us to scale to thousands of mentors around the world.

  As our first full-time mentor recruiter, you'll also have the opportunity to significantly shape the development of mentor acquisition strategy and hiring process.

  Responsibilities:

  Your primary responsibility will be owning our new mentor hiring efforts to help us hit aggressive growth goals. You don’t need to have a technical background, but you should be familiar with new technologies and able to learn quickly enough to assess prospective mentors in the fields we teach. And our bar for mentors is high (only 1 in 12 are accepted), so you’ll need to source a strong pipeline of applicants so we can scale quickly without sacrificing quality.
  
  Your typical day may include

  • Pitching Springboard and getting people excited about the impact mentors have on the lives of students
  • Sourcing high-quality mentor candidates on LinkedIn and convincing them to apply
  • Learning about a new field (like data science) so you can confidently assess candidates
  • Identifying and testing new ways to attract mentors (marketing, partnerships etc.)

  You:

  This job might be for you if
  
  
  • You are excited about the opportunity to collaborate with talented people and solve problems together!
  • You want to work on a team that will invest in your personal/professional development
  • You love learning and can quickly become fluent in technical subjects
  • You are a good judge of character
  • You are good at selling
  • You are super meticulous and detail-oriented.
  • You are resourceful and like to figure stuff out

  Bonus points for

  • 1+ years experience in Recruiting or Business Development roles
  • Experience in a technical field (computer science, statistics)
  • Strong analytical and reasoning skills

  
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• Head of Marketing and Growth
  

  San Francisco

  Role:

  At Springboard, we’re on a mission to bridge the skills gap by delivering high-quality, affordable education in new-economy subjects like data science and design. We’ve already helped thousands of learners around the world, and now, taking a step further, we offer personalized career support to help our students convert their learning into real professional outcomes

  Springboard has seen incredible revenue growth, driven by a talented yet small growth team. We are now looking for a Head of Marketing and Growth (at the VP or Director level) to scale the team and revenues, while championing our brand. The ideal person is a data-driven, user-focused marketer, who can both think strategically and dive into details.
  
  You will be responsible for leading our marketing team, and growing revenue. You will own aggressive growth goals, set the strategy, and hire, mentor and manage a high-performing team. You will also roll up your sleeves, a lot. This is NOT simply a "manager" role.
  
  You will work on the leadership team directly with the founders and leaders of other teams within the company. You’ll bring the best growth marketing and management practices together, and foster an environment where the team continues to love working together.

  Responsibilities:

  • Own the company’s revenue goals, along with the co-founders
  • Build and own the company’s growth model to plan our growth to 3x, 10x, and 50x our current scale
  • Develop a deep understanding of our (prospective) users, their motivations, and why they choose Springboard
  • Become an expert on our customer acquisition channels, funnels and marketing stack
  • Own the marketing budget, and allocate optimally across tools and channels Identify and prioritize growth experiments -- e.g. optimize existing channels, and discover new ones
  • Establish a growth habit and culture of experimentation. Work with the team to prioritize and implement growth experiments
  • Lead the charge on building a data-driven culture, including instrumentation and attribution
  • Work closely with the product team to refine refine UX, copy, and messaging
  • Steward the Springboard brand and voice; ensure consistency in all our communication
  • Manage and continue to build out the growth/marketing team

  You:

  • Have 4+ years of growth/marketing experience with experience mentoring and managing high-performers
  • Have a track record of success in growth / user acquisition, ideally on a startup team when it scaled from Series A to Series B
  • Bring a solid understanding of free and paid user acquisition channels, with deep expertise scaling at least one channel
  • Think from first principles, by putting yourself in the shoes of the user
  • Are willing to bet on bold experiments, with a strong ability to prioritize
  • Are very analytical, and communicate clearly
  • Are comfortable getting your hands dirty and implementing your own ideas
  • Are passionate about improving education and seriously committed to helping build an organization from the ground up, even though it means things won’t always be easy.

  
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Educators

• Digital Marketing Course Lead
  

  San Francisco

  Role:

  At Springboard, we are on a mission to bridge the skills gap by delivering high-quality, affordable education for new economy skills. We currently offer courses in data science, data analytics, and UX design. We’re excited to launch our newest vertical in digital marketing, and we’re looking for an expert in the field who has a vision for how digital marketing should be taught. This is a unique opportunity to put your expertise into action to impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of students.

  Responsibilities:

  You’ll lead developing curriculum for a course that’s first of its kind in the online education space. As Lead Subject Matter Expert, you’ll collaborate with an instructional designer and team of experts who can help you achieve your vision for a best-in-class digital marketing course.
  
  Over the next several months, you’ll:

  • Set the overall direction for the course. This includes (1) Vision for how the course is taught and (2) High-level curriculum structure
  • Collaborate with the instructional designers and other subject matter experts to create a detailed, best-in-class curriculum
  • Be “the face of the course” - appear in videos on the course page, within the curriculum, etc.

  You:

  • You are an experienced digital marketer with 5+ years of experience managing stellar marketing campaigns from end-to-end. This includes a variety of channels from SEO and content marketing, to paid ads and more. Ideally, you’ll have generated more than $1 million in incremental revenue over at least $500,000 annual budget spend.
  • You have a vision for how marketing should be taught. Bonus points for concrete strategies you’d like to apply. 
  • You are an incredible teacher. Either you’ve taught before or have a passion for teaching! 
  • You are a structured, MECE thinker
  • You have excellent verbal & written communication skills
  
  We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
   
   
  

   

  
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• Data Analytics for Business Course Mentor
  

  Remote

  Role:

  We run an online Data Analytics for Business workshop where participants learn with the help of a case study based curriculum and 1-1 guidance from an expert mentor.Our mentor community - the biggest strength of our programs - has experts from the best organizations in the world. If you are as passionate about mentoring as you are about Data Analytics, and can give a few hours per week in return for an honorarium, we would love to hear from you.Our mentors are business analysts, data analysts and analytics experts at top consulting firms, Fortune 500 companies and top-notch startups (e.g. Capital One, Lyft, McKinsey, Square).Please find more details about the program below.

  • 12-week online course that takes students through 5 real-world business cases
  • Course participants are working professionals and college students
  • Participants learn about Data Analytics with the help of an online curriculum and a personal mentor. They go through the curriculum on their own and have a weekly 45-minute video call with their mentor to discuss questions, projects, and career advice

  Responsibilities:

  • Be proficient in the curriculum topics covered in the workshop.

  • Weekly, 45-minute video check-ins with students to help them set and achieve learning goals, answer subject matter questions, provide feedback on projects, and career advice.

  • You can do the calls at a time of your convenience, and take as many mentees as your schedule permits.

  You:

  • You are as passionate about teaching Data Analytics as about Data Analytics itself.

  • You are proficient in the topics covered in our curriculum, including Excel, SQL and Tableau

  • You have an excellent understanding of data visualization, data storytelling, and how to think about data problems in a business context. 

  • You are as passionate about teaching Data Analytics as about Data Analytics itself.

  • You are proficient in the topics covered in our curriculum, including Excel, SQL and Tableau

  • You have an excellent understanding of data visualization, data storytelling, and how to think about data problems in a business context. 

  • You are available for weekly, 45-minute video check-ins with students to help them set and achieve learning goals, answer subject matter questions, provide feedback on projects, and career advice.

  • You have at least 2 years of experience solving real-life data analytics problems, and are comfortable working with large data sets.

  • You are empathetic and have excellent communication skills

  
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• UX Design Course Mentor
  

  Remote

  Role:

  We run online, self-paced UX Design workshops where participants learn with the help of a curated curriculum and 1-1 guidance from an expert mentor.

  Our mentor community - the biggest strength of our programs - has some of the best experts from the field. If you are as passionate about mentoring as you are about UX Design and can give a few hours per week in return for an honorarium, we would love to hear from you.

  Please find more details about the program below.

  • Completely online and self-paced. Coursework is ~100 hours and on average, students finish it in 3 months.
  • Participants in this course are working professionals and college students from all over the world, interested in UX careers.
  • Participants learn about UX Design with the help of a curated online curriculum, many projects and a personal mentor.

  Responsibilities:

  • Be proficient in the curriculum topics covered in the workshop.
  • Weekly, 30-minute video check-ins with students to help them set and achieve learning goals, answer subject matter questions, provide feedback on projects, and career advice.
  • You can do the calls at a time of your convenience, and take as many mentees as your schedule permits.

  You:

  • You are as passionate about teaching Design as about Design itself.
  • You are proficient in the topics covered in our UX Design workshop.
  • You have at least 2 years of relevant work experience, and a handsome portfolio to show for it.
  • You are empathetic and have excellent communication skills.

  
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• Data Science Course Mentor
  

  Remote

  Role:

  We run online, self-paced Data Science workshops where participants learn with the help of a curated curriculum and 1-1 guidance from an expert mentor.

  Our mentor community - the biggest strength of our programs - has some of the best experts from the field. If you are as passionate about mentoring as you are about Data Science, and can give a few hours per week in return for an honorarium, we would love to hear from you.

  Please find more details about the program below.

  • Completely online and self-paced. Coursework is ~100 hours and on average, students finish it in 3 months.
  • Participants in this course are working professionals and college students from all over the world, interested in getting started with Data Science.
  • Participants learn about Data Science with the help of a curated online curriculum, many projects and a personal mentor.

  Responsibilities:

  • Be proficient in the curriculum topics of the workshop you are mentoring for.
  • Weekly, 30-minute video check-ins with students to help them set and achieve learning goals, answer subject matter questions, provide feedback on projects, and career advice.
  • You can do the calls at a time of your convenience, and take as many mentees as your schedule permits.

  You:

  • You are as passionate about teaching Data Science as about Data Science itself.
  • You are that rare combination of programming, statistics and storytelling skills.
  • You are proficient in the curriculum topics of at least one of our Foundations or Intensive workshops.
  • You have at least 2 years of experience solving real-life data science problems, and are comfortable working with large data sets.
  • You are empathetic and have excellent communication skills.

  
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Product & Design

• UX Researcher (Full-time, Contract)
  

  San Francisco

  Role:

  Come join Springboard as our first UX Researcher!

  You’ll use your combination of qualitative and quantitative skills to help deliver amazing student and mentor experiences; you’ll dig into complex problems, analyze data, and deliver actionable insights. You’ll have the unique opportunity to be the champion of our students’ and mentors’ voices, giving our team a deeper understanding of their challenges. You’ll also shape our user research strategy, working cross-functionally with other teams to craft engaging features for our users.
  
  You’ll join a fun, dynamic learning culture that works on something meaningful. This is a full-time, contract role (with potential to transition to employee status) in the heart of San Francisco’s vibrant startup scene.

  Responsibilities:

  Your typical day may include:

  • Designing a user research strategy and testing plan from scratch
  • Partnering with Design, Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to blend research into the product development process
  • Conducting user research studies to explore new opportunities and evaluate current features, by using both qualitative (interviews, exploratory discussions, etc) and quantitative (surveys, usability, etc) research methods
  • Communicating your insights and recommendations to key stakeholders

  You:

  This job might be for you if:

  • You have a solid research background and portfolio, sharing insightful stories from your research, the impact it had, and examples of how you delivered your research findings to your team.
  • You have a deep understanding of qualitative interviewing and research techniques, with a knack for quickly translating your research findings into valuable, actionable insights for the business.
  • You are an excellent communicator (written and verbal) and a confident presenter.
  • You are great at combining qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions.
  • You enjoy collaborating with talented people to help build a one-of-a-kind educational institution.

  
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Career Services

• Career Coach (Part-time)
  

  Remote

  Role:

  At Springboard, we are on a mission to bridge the skills gap by delivering high-quality, affordable education for new economy skills. We have helped thousands of people around the world pick up new skills quickly and effectively, helping them level up their careers to more relevant roles and Career Services play a key role in our mission. 

  As a member of our  Career Services team, you will work closely with the Career Services Lead to coach students on all aspects of their career goals and job search, to produce great career outcomes for Springboard students. You love to coach, and will support students as they move through the career curriculum by helping them improve their networking skills, LinkedIn profiles, resumes, interviews, negotiation skills, overall communication, and fit for the roles they seek. You’ll feel the rewards instantly as students implement your advice and grow their ability to find the perfect career opportunity for them. This opportunity is currently part-time up to 20 hours per week, with the possibility for growth to a FT position in 3-6 months. 

  Responsibilities:

  As Career Coach, you’ll provide 1:1 coaching to Springboard students that will improve career outcomes for our Data Science Career Track students. 
  
  
  You will: 
  • Provide 1:1 career coaching conversations with students  in a high volume, online, coaching environment
  • Respond promptly and supportively to student career concerns and questions via email 
  • Stay up to date on current trends in data science hiring and job search tactics that work 
  • Track outcomes of coaching calls via our student CRM, providing detailed notes and information that evaluate risk factors, track success, and predict future performance
  • Escalate students of concern to the Career Services Lead for additional coaching or intervention 
  • Collaborate with the Employer Relationship Manager to recommend students for job openings and information about employability

  You:

  • Have 1+ years experience in coaching, advising, teaching, or mentoring in a 1:1 capacity, ideally supporting individuals’ career goals. 
  • Outstanding customer service and high degree of responsiveness.
  • Knowledge of the hiring process and how to conduct an effective job search. 
  • Track record of producing measurable results, meeting deadlines, and balancing multiple priorities and constituencies.
  • Ability to build rapport and credibility with students and your colleagues across the company.
  • Genuine interest in student and career development, with experience working with candidates/students as well as hiring partners preferred.
  • Natural agility and flexibility in the face of fast-changing and undefined situations.
  • Strong communication skills, especially in listening, coaching, and advising. 
  
  We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

  
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• Employer Relationship Manager
  

  San Francisco

  Role:

  At Springboard, we are on a mission to bridge the skills gap by delivering high-quality, affordable education for new economy skills. We have helped thousands of people around the world pick up new skills quickly and effectively, helping them level up their careers to more relevant roles and Career Services play a key role in our mission.

  As the second member of our  Career Services team, you will work closely with the Career Services Lead to build and manage the relationships with our hiring partners and employers, to produce great career outcomes and placement opportunities for Springboard students. You will develop and execute employer outreach, recruitment, and relationship management that produces high quality full-time and internship opportunities for students and graduates, and you will act as a “matchmaker” to recommend students for job opportunities that will be a great fit on both sides.

  Responsibilities:

  As Employer Relations Manager, you’ll bear two key sets of responsibilities: conducting outreach and development of employer partnerships, and providing those employers with talented candidates to fill their open positions.

  Employer Partnership Development and Outreach

  • Identify, and cultivate relationships with the best data science employers in the US by conducting outreach through your network, as well as Springboard mentors, students and alumni to identify employment opportunities in their companies.

  • Participate in industry events to market Springboard data science students to potential employers and strengthen the Springboard brand in the data science hiring community.

  • Implement, manage, and evaluate success of partner referral and incentive programs to encourage hiring Springboard graduates.

  • Develop marketing content that showcases Springboard programs and students to employer partners.

  • Manage employer contacts and leads through our CRM.

  Account Management and Student Placement

  • Act as a recruiter for our partner companies by understanding the needs of the company deeply, and identifying students who will be a perfect fit.

  • Create unique event opportunities for employers to build their employer brand, interact with students, and interview potential candidates, while considering our online environment.

  • Set up processes that will help us scale and automate our recruitment support for employer partners.

  • Ensure a seamless, positive experience for both students and employer partners.

  You:

  • Have 2+ years experience in business development, relationship management, employer relations, or recruitment.

  • Track record of producing measurable results, meeting deadlines, and balancing multiple priorities and constituencies.

  • Know how to create efficient processes and are highly detail oriented.

  • Ability to build rapport and credibility with external customers and your colleagues across the company.

  • Genuine interest in student and career development, with experience working with candidates/students as well as hiring partners preferred.

  • Natural agility and flexibility in the face of fast-changing and undefined situations.

  • Strong analytical and communication skills.

  • Deeply engaged in the tech community, with a robust network that can give a head start.

  We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

   

  
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