Program Manager

Rockstar is recruiting for an award-winning platform that helps families navigate their child’s educational journey. This platform enables parents to find, apply, and register for schools and programs using a common application system with saved profiles. It also powers backend admissions and operational workflows, making it easy for schools, districts, and educational providers to equitably serve students. Location: San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA (Semi-remote organization with hubs in both cities) Role Overview The Client Services team is expanding to serve new and existing charter school clients. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in charter school enrollment/operations and is also technically adept - someone ready to share their expertise and best practices with others while also eager to go deep into software configurations and data analysis. Responsibilities 60% Implementation – Lead implementation projects with new charter customers, developing and managing the project plan and deliverables. 15% Customer Support – Directly support multiple customers post-launch with their use of the platform, through training, troubleshooting issues, software configuration, data manipulation and analysis, and identifying opportunities for improving their processes. 15% Business Development – Support efforts to bring in new clients and expand relationships with existing clients. 10% Operational – As a growing startup, everyone pitches in to do whatever it takes to build the organization. Qualifications Core Competency: Strength and experience in each of the above job responsibilities. Professional Experience: 4+ years of professional experience, at least 2 of which are in PK-12 charter school/CMO operations or administration. Project Management: Adept at prioritizing and managing a high volume of concurrent clients across different stages of onboarding, implementation, and renewal. Customer-Centric Mindset: Creative problem-solving skills; proven record of negotiating competing (and conflicting) stakeholder perspectives; ability to balance customer requests with product priorities and business needs. Quantitative Skills: Experience gathering and cleaning data, analyzing large datasets, and presenting results/insights to a non-technically savvy audience. Commercial Comfort: Comfort with engaging in sales and marketing functions: leading product demos, boothing at events, managing account renewals, discussing expansion opportunities with existing clients, and so forth. Communication: Excellent communicator, including written and oral. Startup Alignment: Entrepreneurial spirit and drive, extraordinary comfort with ambiguity, enjoyment wearing many hats. Mindset: Among the best at what you do with a growth mindset and desire to constantly improve. Values: Passion for education, equity, and social impact. Eligibility: Legal ability to work in the US and willingness to work continental US hours. Nice To Haves Strong preference for candidates with one or more of the following skillsets: Experience with student enrollment and/or student recruitment. Experience managing multiple clients simultaneously. Experience collaborating with technical teams (e.g., software engineering, IT). Experience with a statistical software package (e.g., Stata, SAS, SPSS, R). Salary Range $90,000 - $130,000 a year Note on salary range: Upper end of the salary range is intended for candidates with 5+ years as an enrollment leader at a large charter management organization (CMO). #J-18808-Ljbffr Rockstar