Jobs at InStride

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InStride is looking for a B2B Marketing Manager, to develop and drive demand generation to corporations, organizations, and institutions. This is a high-profile growth opportunity to partner with our senior leadership to build and accelerate our corporate and university pipeline through scalable marketing programs.

This individual will be a critical connector across internal teams within InStride (e.g., Success, Product, Technology, Marketing) and external partners (Corporate Partners and Academic Partners) to solve issues raised by learners, surface feedback and represent the end-user perspective to enhance product and academic partnership development. The role also involves managing general operational processes, documentation and taking a proactive problem-solving approach to key initiatives.

As the premier global provider of Strategic Enterprise Education™ (SEE), InStride enables employers to provide career-boosting degrees and credentials to their employees, through leading global academic institutions across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Australia. InStride helps organizations achieve transformative business and social impact by unlocking the power of education, through advanced technology-enabled experiences for learners and

InStride’s People and Talent (HR) team is passionate about our business, our partners, our culture, and most importantly our people. We are looking for a hands-on People & Talent Coordinator, who is ready to start their InStride journey by supporting a variety of high priority People & Talent initiatives. Together, we will take our employee lifecycle and recruitment experiences to the next level, establish and reinforce company culture to make InStride a great place to work. This position will report to the HR Business Partner. 

Conduct high volume prospecting to advance high-quality inbound leads that expand the InStride BD pipeline. Work closely and collaboratively with executives to develop and implement appropriate prospecting strategies. Conduct needs qualification calls with specific prospects as assigned. You will be tenacious, have a knack for adapting to a conversation as it progresses, and a real passion for results: you gain great satisfaction from converting prospects into qualified leads. Learn how a variety of businesses operate, what challenges they face daily, and how education can dramatically improve their businesses and employees' lives. Conduct weekly analysis of the BD pipeline and develop strategic plans to further cultivate network growth.

Working with the Sr. IT Manager, IT Service Operations Manager, and IT Systems Administrator to scope, budget, and plan for the overall internal technology roadmap and project forecast. Establishing and implementing training and continuous learning for InStride employees as new tools and services are implemented. Holding regular team meetings to determine progress, challenges, and questions regarding ongoing projects. Create and own a method for the change management lifecycle . Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by the standards of scope, budget, and timeline. Working with business stakeholders, IT Service Operations Manager, and IT Systems Administrator to develop comprehensive project plans as they apply to internal technology and implementations. Standardizing and documenting systems, processes, and workflows as they apply to the overall project management lifecycle. 

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role will lead the architecture, platform, development and sustainment of our platform and ecosystem. The ideal candidate would have previous experience building web and mobile digital products for large enterprises, a proven track record of building applications, services, infrastructure and helping growing needs of our business and engineering teams and a passion for our mission.

•Manage requirements gathering between Design, Engineering and additional teams in order to define user stories, acceptance criteria and overall direction for product features . •Lead a Pod of Engineers through backlog grooming, tech estimations, planning and development to ensure each sprint moves forward at its max velocity . •Support the release of feature launches with go-to-market plans, user acceptance testing and communication notes to all stakeholders . •Review and prioritize feature/bug requests from internal and external stakeholders. •Analyze business data to identify insights, trends and develop recommendations in order to enable us to make data-driven decisions. •Drive post launch product optimization opportunities to increase conversion rates .

5+ years software engineering experience delivering large scale, global, high traffic and highly available consumer facing web applications and mobile apps. 5+ years experience delivering projects using agile methodologies. 5+ years experience collaborating with and working in cross functional teams including product, user experience, project management, etc.. 2+ years leading or mentoring other developers on the team. Ensure use of engineering best practices for development, development, agile, security, accessibility, compliance, performance, HADR, etc. Experience delivering SaaS solutions for large enterprise customers. Experience leveraging a variety of open source technologies, working with cloud services, leveraging modern UI frameworks (Angular, React) , backend (RESTful APIs, Node.js, python, microservices, serverless, etc). Be able to lead and be a technical subject matter expert for platform architecture discussions and decisions. Strong process orientation and attention to detail.

· Ensure use of engineering best practices for development, development, agile, security, accessibility, compliance, performance, HADR, etc. · Experience delivering SaaS solutions for large enterprise customers. · Experience leveraging a variety of open source technologies, working with cloud services, leveraging modern UI frameworks (Angular, React) , backend (RESTful APIs, Node.js, python, microservices, serverless, etc). · Be able to lead and be a technical subject matter expert for platform architecture discussions and decisions. · Strong process orientation and attention to detail. · Proactively communicate and manage expectations with your leader and team. · Excited by the challenge of building a world-class business that delivers not only high revenue growth and compelling ROI, but also has a meaningful impact on society. · Exposure to higher education institutions through direct experience and/or passion for the education space. · Comfort with ambiguity and a “no job too small” startup mentality. · Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science related field and/or work experience.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role will lead the development and sustainment of our Learner platform and experience. The ideal candidate would have previous experience building web and mobile digital products for large enterprises, proven track record building and growing engineering teams from the ground up, and a passion for our mission.

InStride is currently seeking a highly motivated and energetic Success Manager to join our Academic Partnerships team. With guidance from the Director, University Partnerships, but with significant autonomy, this individual will be responsible for developing academic partner growth strategy, overseeing new partner onboarding, delivering on annual targets and retention objectives, qualifying upsell opportunities and enhancing overall client satisfaction. The position reports to the Director, University Partnerships.