Startup Internship Program Manager (3 month contract role with ability to extend based on performance) at empowerly

Empowerly is a fast-growing ed-tech company on a mission to empower students to become the most successful version of themselves. Our platform combines expert college counseling with proprietary tools like the Empowerly Score™, offering families a 360° view of their child’s college readiness across academics, essays, and extracurriculars. We’ve raised $30 million from top-tier investors including Goodwater Capital, Conductive Ventures, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures. Empowerly is a founder-led company that has grown through SEO-driven performance marketing. We’ve now invested heavily in scaling a diversified GTM motion across Sales, Events, B2C, Partnerships, and Business Development and we’re looking to grow our revenue by 150–200%+ in the coming phase. This role will be critical to helping us make that leap. We operate on a remote-first basis, building a team of individuals who excel in remote environments and are passionate about making high-quality college counseling accessible to all students, regardless of their background or location. The Role • Empowerly offers in-house ancillary programs and partnerships with services such as summer programs, research internships, tutoring programs, and more • The SIP Program Manager will lead the Operations Support behind Empowerly’s Startup Internship Program. You will wear many hats, make quick decisions, and create processes from ambiguity. You aren’t afraid to dig in the weeds and use data to come up with solutions to complex problems. Responsibilities • Act as the liaison between Empowerly and 100+ startup companies who work with interns • Ensure overall program health, including establishing internal quality controls metrics and assessments and alignment with company priorities. • Provide regular data reporting, sharing insights on the programs’ success rates and outputs to team and leadership • Identify and implement systems improvements to promote efficiency in the matching and onboarding process and improve student program experience • Resolve any potential conflicts between families and companies throughout the internship matching process • Manage an intern team who will help maintain relationships with startups and interact with students • Maintain close relationships with the entire operations and sales team to ensure messaging and expectations are clearly communicated WHO YOU ARE • At this time, we are only considering U.S. citizens who are based in the United States • Bachelor Science or Bachelor of Arts • 2+ years of experience in Program or Project Management • Experience with all Google tools, including Google Sheets and Google Drive • Experience in data analysis and creation of performance dashboards • Highly structured and organized thinker • Willingness to engage and learn • Tech savvy • Experience working with or at startups • Experience working in EdTech • Familiarity with education technology industry preferred • Experience with Airtable, WorkRamp, and Zendesk are a plus A great deal of your fulfillment at any company is determined by the extent to which the values of the people and the organization align with your own. It’s hard to assess culture from the outside and most companies are not good at describing their own nature. (How do fish describe water?) They also have incentives to say things that sound attractive rather than things that are true. We’ve tried to assemble characteristics. This is our best attempt to share an honest description of our culture today. We hope you find it useful in deciding whether Empowerly is the kind of place in which you’d like to spend your time. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.