Associate Manager, Operations & Sales, College

Job Description

Job Description

We’re looking for a highly organized and execution-oriented Associate Manager of Operations & Sales to join our College team.

This person will be the operational backbone of the team– keeping the trains on track, creating structure across a fast-moving portfolio of work, and ensuring we’re operating as efficiently and effectively as possible. You’ll support our planning cadence and marketing laydown, track budgets, contracts and invoicing, and help keep cross-functional teams, agencies, vendors, and partners updated against key priorities and deadlines.

You’ll also play an important role in supporting adoption of BFF among college organizations, building relationships with sororities, clubs, student organizations, and other campus communities to make BFF their go-to platform for connecting and organizing.

We’re a small, entrepreneurial team, so this role extends beyond traditional operations and sales. Everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves– whether that means attending an event, helping execute an activation, identifying a new campus opportunity, or bringing a great idea to the table.

What You'll Do

• Operations & Planning

  • Support the operational needs of the College team, helping keep projects, activations, partnerships, and campaigns organized and on schedule.

  • Maintain and update the College marketing laydown, providing a clear view of what is happening across campuses, channels, partnerships, and key moments.

  • Support the team’s planning and operating cadence, including tracking timelines, status updates, deliverables, and key decision points.

  • Follow established systems and processes to help the team to operate more efficiently without adding unnecessary complexity.

  • Coordinate across internal teams, agencies, vendors, campus partners, and other stakeholders to keep workstreams moving forward.

  • Identify potential roadblocks early to keep projects on track.

  Budget, Contracts & Administration

  • Assist with tracking the College team’s budget, including tracking spend, forecasting, reconciling actuals, and maintaining visibility into remaining budget.

  • Process invoices and contract paperwork across agencies, vendors, creators, ambassadors, organizations, and other partners.

  • Follow established workflows with Finance, Legal, Procurement, and other internal teams to ensure agreements and payments move efficiently through the organization.

  • Maintain organized records and reporting across contracts, invoices, vendors, partnerships, and key deliverables.

  BFF Sales & Campus Partnerships

  • Support outreach of BFF as a platform for college organizations and communities, with an initial focus on sororities, clubs, and other highly connected student groups.

  • Help build relationships with influential campus organizations and student leaders.

  • Help develop a scalable outreach and onboarding approach that makes it easy for organizations to understand, adopt, and use BFF.

  • Track and update pipeline of prospective organizations from initial outreach through activation and ongoing engagement.

  • Gather feedback from campus partners and students to identify opportunities to improve the experience and inform broader College and BFF strategy.

  • Partner with Marketing and Product to identify creative ways to drive organizational adoption and turn early partners into advocates.

  College Marketing

  • Support the broader College team across activations, partnerships, ambassadors, events, and other marketing initiatives as directed.

  • Be willing to get hands-on— including traveling to campuses, attending events, supporting activations, and jumping in wherever needed to make something successful.

  • Stay close to college culture and proactively bring forward new ideas, partnerships, organizations, and opportunities.

  • Operate with a “no task is too big or too small” mentality as we continue to build and evolve our college strategy.

About You

• Exceptionally organized with strong attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple fast-moving workstreams simultaneously.

• A natural operator who loves creating order, building systems, and keeping people accountable.

• Strong project management skills with a bias toward action and follow-through.

• Comfortable tracking & owning budgets, contracts, invoicing, timelines, and operational processes.

• Commercially minded and energized by outreach, relationship-building, and getting people excited about a product or idea.

• Confident communicating with everyone from internal executives and cross-functional partners to sorority leaders and college students.

• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and comfortable working in an environment where the playbook is still being written.

• Strong pulse on college and Gen Z culture, with genuine curiosity about how students connect, socialize, and build community.

• Willingness to travel and be on the ground at college campuses and events when needed.

• A collaborative, low-ego teammate who is equally comfortable developing a plan and rolling up their sleeves to execute it.

What Success Looks Like

• You support the operational infrastructure that allows the College team to move quickly without things falling through the cracks. The team has clear visibility into priorities, timelines, budgets, and deliverables; partners and vendors move smoothly through contracting and payment; and our resources are being deployed efficiently.

• At the same time, you build a growing network of college organizations actively using BFF– creating a repeatable model for bringing sororities, clubs, and campus communities onto the platform.

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

AI Fluency

AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don’t use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.

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AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.

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Compensation Range: $75K - $80K