As a School Partnerships Manager, you will support GoGuardian’s mission to work with administrators, educators, and school communities to co-create revolutionary student centered products. Your work will leverage and expand upon a community of schools partners to align GoGuardian’s work to support the needs and pain points schools experience in their day-to-day workflows while also raising opportunities to be innovative. Specifically, the School Partnerships Manager will own a member engagement program designed to increase school members’ influence over product development and our products’ impact on the learning environment. Your work in schools will directly surface education industry shifts, customer priorities, and emerging problems our products could potentially solve. You are a fierce and persistent collaborator and connector who thrives on building and growing people and things into their fullest potential. You believe that it takes a village to get anything done, and the more diverse and holistic that village is, the better.

What will I be doing?

• Deepen GoGuardian’s relationships with existing school partners
• Help Product Managers source candidates for discovery calls and testing groups.
• Expand GoGuardian’s school partnership program, adding several new highly engaged school partners in their first year. 
• Assess innovative opportunities aligned with our high-level product roadmap to improve or strengthen new product ideas based on your discovery of customer pain points, and support solutions through willing school partners. 
• Lead partnership activities on school sites in compliance with their contract. 
• Assist the Product team in developing technical and consultative relationships with school districts to validate product ideas. 
• Research, identify, court, and close school partnerships for Product Management and Impact
• Establish and maintain close relationships with product managers, engineers, third-party vendors, and partners to ensure our end-to-end architecture meets school requirements.
• Expand GoGuardian’s reach and brand respect among in the education community.

What will I conquer in my day to day?

• Negotiation and Leadership
• Contract Management
• Education and Onboarding (Customer & Partner)
• Event Planning and Support
• Reciprocity Facilitation
• Process Optimization

Ideal Background / Experience

• 2+ years working in a school or district setting in an administrative role. 
• 1+ years working with customers in a business setting like Business Development
• Strong understanding of the educational landscape at every level
• Exceptional comfort with Student Data Privacy laws and legislation
• Strong experience playing a decision making role in an educational setting
• Knowledge of SaaS business model a plus
• Experience working with community partners, non-profits, or public sector entities.
• Masters Degree in Public Administration, Instructional Technology, Education

Skills we are looking for

• Ability to easily flow between strategic and tactical thinking
• Strong experience working interdepartmentally
• Top notch conflict resolution skill set. 
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills
• Demonstrated ability in creating, communicating, and delivering action oriented plans
• Demonstrated ability to speak confidently to a diverse group of customers
• Team player, quality minded, focused, committed, able to work independently in a fast paced, ambiguous environment
• High degree of professional confidence and credibility with effective presence strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• High emotional intelligence, a can-do mentality, creative approach to problem solving
• Outstanding written, verbal, interpersonal communication skills
• Strong analytical and reporting skills

GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns, or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.