• Responsible for planning, coordination, and execution of strategic programs • Ensure alignment with company business objectives • Coordinate activities across multiple projects and workstreams • Report on program progress and follow up on action items • Manage timelines effectively and ensure clarity on priorities • Map key stakeholders and assess risks • Drive overall initiative progress to success • Develop program scope, objectives, and success criteria in alignment with business goals • Identify, assess, and prioritize program risks and issues • Lead program ceremonies and governance forums as required

ABOUT EMPOWERLY Empowerly is a fast-growing ed-tech company on a mission to empower students to become the most successful version of themselves. Our platform combines expert college counseling with proprietary tools like the Empowerly Score™, offering families a 360° view of their child’s college readiness across academics, essays, and extracurriculars. We’ve raised $30 million from top-tier investors including Goodwater Capital, Conductive Ventures, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures. Empowerly is a founder-led company that has grown through SEO-driven performance marketing. We’ve now invested heavily in scaling a diversified GTM motion across Sales, Events, B2C, Partnerships, and Business Development and we’re looking to grow our revenue by 150–200%+ in the coming phase. This role will be critical to helping us make that leap. We operate on a remote-first basis, building a team of individuals who excel in remote environments and are passionate about making high-quality college counseling accessible to all students, regardless of their background or location. The Role - Empowerly offers in-house ancillary programs and partnerships with services such as summer programs, research internships, tutoring programs, and more - Experience operating within startup environments, with a strong understanding of cross-functional operations and scaling processes efficiently - The Program Manager will lead the Operations Support behind Empowerly’s ancillary programs and partnerships. You will wear many hats, make quick decisions, and create processes from ambiguity. You aren’t afraid to dig in the weeds and use data to come up with solutions to complex problems. - The Program Manager will work cross functionally with Marketing, Sales, Product, and Engineering to create and refine processes, build automations, and scale these partnership programs to accommodate thousands of students. Responsibilities - Lead and implement all ancillary Empowerly programs as service offerings grow - Act as the liaison between Empowerly and 2+ partnership programs that Empowerly students work with - Manage programs team and contractor teams who will help maintain program relationships and interact with students - Own the end-to-end process of bringing the Research Scholars Program in house, including mentor sourcing and onboarding, program structure, and quality control - Recruit, onboard, and manage startup companies participating in the Startup Internship Program - Manage both short term and long term operational strategy and proactively anticipate the needs of our programs as our student base grows exponentially - Ensure overall program health, including establishing internal quality controls metrics and assessments, bench analysis and expansion, and alignment with company priorities. - Provide regular data reporting, sharing insights on the programs’ success rates and outputs - Source, vet, and onboard new programs - Design, present, and implement training resources for counselors to share services with existing students and help onboard them to new programs. - Work closely with Marketing and Sales Teams to create training documentation on how to speak about Empowerly ancillary programs and attract new students and families. WHO YOU ARE - Bachelor Science or Bachelor of Arts - 4+ years of experience in Program or Project Management - 3+ years of management experience - Experience with all Google tools, including Google Sheets and Google Drive - Experience in data analysis and creation of performance dashboards - Highly structured and organized thinker - Willingness to engage and learn - Tech savvy - Experience working with or at startups - Experience working in EdTech - Familiarity with education technology industry and the challenges and demands it places on leaders and teams - Experience with Airtable, WorkRamp, and Zendesk are a plus - At this time, we are only considering U.S. citizens who are based in the United States $85,000 - $105,000 a year Empowerly Values - Be Empowered: Dive in and own your impact. Proactively seek solutions and drive results that get the job done well and on time, every time—communicating in moments when deadlines need to be pushed or support is requested. - Be Collaborative: We accomplish more together than we would apart. By being transparent, sharing ideas, offering honest feedback, growing from our mistakes, and leveraging each individual’s unique strengths, we tackle challenges as a team. - Be Adaptive: Navigate challenges with resourceful resilience. Expect and embrace evolving situations, find creative ways forward, persist through difficulties, and leverage available resources to achieve our common goals. - Act with Urgent Curiosity: We approach every challenge and rapid change with an open mind and a desire to learn, moving quickly and with purpose every time. - Lead with Humble Respect: Value contributions and new ideas from all teammates, regardless of status, by cultivating a culture where empathy and understanding pave the way for all to shine. - Make the Student the Hero: We put our students and families first, always. We are their champions every step of the way. Their satisfaction and success are our true north for all decisions and the purpose of why we’re here. The benefits package includes health/dental/vision insurance, paid vacation and sick days, and a 401k. In addition to our tangible benefits, Empowerly provides our people the opportunity to learn and grow within a supportive team environment. A great deal of your fulfillment at any company is determined by the extent to which the values of the people and the organization align with your own. It’s hard to assess culture from the outside and most companies are not good at describing their own nature. (How do fish describe water?) They also have incentives to say things that sound attractive rather than things that are true. We’ve tried to assemble characteristics. This is our best attempt to share an honest description of our culture today. We hope you find it useful in deciding whether Empowerly is the kind of place in which you’d like to spend your time.

• Lead delivery of complex telecom and network technology programs, overseeing multiple related projects within the assigned domain. • Coordinate project managers and cross-functional teams including network engineering, IT, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders. • Employee may manage and oversee contractors or external project leads executing projects within the program, ensuring alignment to program goals, timelines, and delivery standards. • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, including scope, schedules, dependencies, and sequencing across projects. • Establish and manage program governance, ensuring consistent delivery standards and cadence across all program projects. • Manage program and project-level risks, issues, and dependencies, driving timely mitigation and escalation when necessary. • Optimize resource allocation and capacity planning across program workstreams. • Monitor program and project-level financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, and funding alignment. • Ensure clear communication of program status, timelines, impacts, and risks to leadership and stakeholders. • Ensure programs meet operational readiness requirements and support transition to production and field teams. • Align program outcomes to strategic goals and ensure benefits realization is tracked and reported.

• Act as the primary strategic advisor to clients, aligning consulting solutions with business goals • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of consulting projects across multiple industries • Develop and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted partner throughout the engagement lifecycle • Drive business development by identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts • Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery • Facilitate executive-level communications and stakeholder reporting • Oversee financial performance of engagements, including billing, and forecasting • Collaborate with internal teams to ensure consistent delivery standards and client satisfaction • Support strategic transformation initiatives for clients • Contribute to the development of consulting methodologies, templates, and best practices