Strategy & Operations Associate - Talent
Inspira Education
About Inspira Education
Inspira Education Group is one of the fastest-growing edtech startups in the US. We started with a simple mission to democratize access to high-quality coaching so that every student in the world has an equal opportunity to access the best opportunities.
As the world’s leading network of top admissions coaches in medical, legal, business, and college studies, we’re building software and services in one place—disrupting long-entrenched application processes with products and experiences that strive to provide an equal platform for candidates from diverse backgrounds worldwide.
As one of the fastest-growing edtech firms in the world, we are backed by some of the leading venture capital firms and investors in the world, including Zeev Ventures, Quiet Capital, Craft Ventures, Jeff Fluhr (Founder of Stubhub), and David Sacks (Former COO of PayPal and Founder of Yammer).
The Opportunity
This role requires in-office attendance 5 days a week (Gramercy).
The Challenge : How do you systematically win the top 1% of talent in the most competitive markets when they're not looking for jobs?
Traditional companies outsource this problem to expensive recruiters or post jobs and pray. We're building something different - an internal talent acquisition engine that operates like the best sales organizations: data-driven, experimental, relentlessly optimized, and executed at scale.
The reality : A lot of great hires come from proactive outbound outreach, not inbound applications. The candidates we need - top-tier marketers, operators, strategists - aren't scrolling job boards. This is a sales and operations problem disguised as a talent problem.
Your mission : Build and own the relationships that let us compete for talent against companies 10x our size. You'll work directly with founders and leadership to design talent acquisition as a competitive advantage, not just a support function.
What makes this interesting : This role blends strategy with high-leverage execution. You'll design sophisticated targeting strategies and conversion-optimized messaging frameworks, then spend hours executing those strategies, analyzing what works, and iterating rapidly. Think of it as building and running a highly-optimized outbound sales motion - except you're selling careers and competing for talent against companies 10x our size.
Think of this role as:
- Strategy design : Who are the top performers in marketing, sales operations, recruiting? Where do they work? What messaging will resonate with them?
- Go-to-market strategy : How do we reach passive candidates at scale? What channels work? What messaging converts?
- High-volume execution : Spending hours daily in tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter designing Boolean searches and scaling high-volume personalized outreach messages.
- Conversion optimization : How do we increase response rates from 5% to 25%? What A/B tests should we run on outreach sequences?
What You'll Do
Build & Execute the Talent Acquisition Engine
- Run sophisticated Boolean searches in tools such LinkedIn Recruiter to identify high-potential candidates across different functions
- Review hundreds of profiles daily, assess fit against strategic Ideal Candidate Profiles you've built
- Manage multi-touch outreach sequences across dozens of candidates simultaneously
- Conduct quick screening calls with interested candidates to assess fit and maintain pipeline velocity
- Experiment with creative sourcing beyond LinkedIn - targeted email, Twitter/X, Slack communities, Reddit, conference lists
- Design role-specific acquisition strategies: who's the target market, where do they congregate, what motivates them to move?
- Build and continuously refine Ideal Candidate Profiles based on what patterns emerge in your best hires
- Create messaging frameworks optimized for different personas - test hooks, value props, personalization approaches
- Run structured experiments: A/B test subject lines, try different outreach sequences, measure everything
Optimize & Scale
- Build dashboards tracking the metrics that matter: response rates by message type, conversion through each funnel stage, time-to-engagement, source effectiveness
- Analyze what's working and what's not - which companies yield the best candidates? Which messages get responses? Where are bottlenecks?
- Document winning strategies into repeatable playbooks that can eventually scale beyond you
- Conduct market intelligence: where does top talent congregate? What are competitive comp packages? Who's hiring and who's laying off?
- Present insights and recommendations to leadership on talent market dynamics and acquisition strategy
- Optimize workflows and build automation where it makes sense (but know when personal touch matters more)
Partner & Collaborate
- Work closely with the founders to understand what they need and ensure seamless candidate handoffs
- Collaborate with hiring managers to truly understand roles beyond the job description
- Train and leverage offshore sourcing support for high-volume, lower-touch searches
- Share learnings across the team and continuously raise the bar on candidate quality
What We're Looking For
Required:
- 1-3 years in management consulting (MBB strongly preferred), strategy consulting, or top-tier strategy & operations
- Builder mentality : You're energized by creating something from scratch, even if it means doing unglamorous work initially
- Analytical + scrappy : You think in frameworks and optimize based on data, but you're also willing to hustle and do what it takes
- Exceptional written communication : You can write dozens of compelling, personalized messages daily that actually get responses
- Intellectual honesty : You're clear-eyed about trading some prestige for ownership, impact, and accelerated learning
- Resilience : Low response rates don't discourage you - they make you curious about how to improve
Strongly Preferred:
- Experience with high-volume outbound work (sales development, growth marketing, bizdev) - you've done the grind before
- Natural curiosity about people, what motivates them, and how to craft compelling narratives
- Competitive drive - you want to win talent away from top companies
- Systems thinking - you document and systematize as you go, building toward scale
- Genuine interest in how great companies are built, organizational design, or talent strategy
You'll thrive here if:
- You see repetitive work as an opportunity to build systems and get better, not as beneath you
- You love immediate feedback loops and rapid iteration
- You want to own outcomes, not just contribute to them
- You're excited about building the foundation of something that will eventually scale beyond you
Not Required:
- Traditional recruiting background (fresh perspective is valuable)
- Expertise in education/EdTech (we'll teach you)
- Prior LinkedIn Recruiter mastery (we'll train you on Boolean search)
Why you'll love Inspira
- Amazing people with a great vision and values
- Ability to work directly with co-founders and drive impact super quickly
- Your work directly impacts the lives and careers of students across the globe
- 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental benefits
- Flexible Paid-time Off
- Learning and Development Budget
- Retirement Savings Plans - 401k with matching
- Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups like OWN (Outreach Women's Network), AAPI, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Gender+, LatinX, Black Excellence, Disability Community, and Veterans
- Note: certain benefits are not provided to 1099 contract worker
Interested in learning more about Inspira Education, please visit Inspira Education Group .
Inspira Education Group does not discriminate based on race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in providing employment opportunities and benefits.
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