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Location: Posted: Feb 11, 2021

Job Description

Director of Immersion Programs, Thinkful

Role Overview:

Join us to change lives. As the Director of Immersion Programs, you will be responsible for scaling our full-time programs. You’ll set the bar for operational excellence to drive graduation and placement among our students. You will deliver a five-star student experience across our instruction, academic success, and careers teams that results in high student satisfaction and exceptional outcomes, measured by graduation and placement rates. You will oversee Academic Success, Instructors, and Careers teams by managing the managers of those teams, and partner with product and engineering to build a best-in-class experience delivered at scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a manager of student advisors who provide onboarding, coaching, feedback, and support to adult students in full-time, career accelerator programs
  • Lead a manager of career coaches who support our graduates as they find jobs, including through directly building relationships with employers
  • Establish and monitor goals, objectives, and key performance indicators across the operation to determine the efficacy of each aspect of the operation
  • Own the forecast of student graduation and retention rate, attributing variance from forecast to explainable factors and continuously improving the forecast
  • Work with our Product, Instructional Design and Engineering teams to execute against a shared vision for high quality, scalable education

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience scaling an operational unit, with responsibility for guiding strategy, understanding a P&L, and motivating a diverse staff
  • Prior experience managing managers with a strong track record of coaching and developing talent internally
  • Experience in project management and successfully implementing large-scale strategic initiatives
  • Data-fluent operator with prior experience owning a forecast and explaining variance from the forecast
  • Prior experience partnering with product leadership to support their development and execution of an ambitious product roadmap
  • A high degree of empathy for adult students
  • Outstanding and supportive team player

To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter detailing your interest and experience. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

What is Chegg?

An ‘always on’ digital learning platform.

Chegg puts students first...Everything we build in this company is student-focused, making us the leading student-first connected learning platform. Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. This is achieved by providing students a multitude of educational tools from affordable textbook rentals to Chegg Study which supplements their learning through 24/7 tutor access, step-by-step help with questions, and more. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG.

Why do we exist?

Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we’ve expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, Chegg Writing, Chegg Internships, Thinkful Online Learning, and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.

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This is a remote position which may be performed anywhere in the United States except for within the state of Colorado.

Chegg is an equal opportunity employer

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