About Pursuit

Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch & advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows go from earning $18,000 to over $90,000 starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings. Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, & Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles & supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance. Since 2013, Pursuit has created ~$1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations. 

Pursuits proven solution is built on two interconnected components: training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, & Commit on-the-job training) & a financial product (known as Bond). However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans. Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product & create tools for other organizations, jobs, & places. We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.

We are One Big Team

The passionate & collaborative team at Pursuit gives its all to achieve our mission. And its not just staff. We work with employer partners that love hiring our Fellows because they are so well prepared, ranging from big financial firms to scrappy startups, & everything in between. We also activate & engage hundreds of volunteers that come from all areas of the tech industry. These experts & professionals help keep our curriculum fresh & our standards for achievement high by participating in our admissions process, as well as program-specific activities such as interview training, DemoDays, Hackathons, & Capstone projects. 

About the Role

Pursuits Employment team is looking to hire a focused & dedicated Strategy & Operations Manager who will develop & implement supply-side initiatives & manage day-to-day operations & analytics. Our Employment function is responsible for the success of Pursuits open market jobs strategy, one of the two organizational strategies to drive employment outcomes for Pursuit Fellows: 1) open market jobs 2) committed jobs (enterprise sales contracts with employer customers). Open market jobs have historically represented ~70% of Pursuit jobs. 

Reporting to the VP of Employment, the Strategy & Operations manager will lead the effort to redefine the way that Pursuit collects & leverages our Fellows application & employment data. Likewise, working cross-functionally & alongside members of the team, they will help determine how the function defines & measures success. With the overarching goal of "Everyone Drives Jobs" as the top company-wide priority for 2024, the Strategy & Operations manager will have a critical impact on Pursuits mission. 

As a Strategy & Operations Manager you will: 

• Define & implement the process & leverage the full Pursuit network to maintain high (>80%) confidence in jobs data
• Partner with Employers & Pursuit staff to redefine & roll out new behavioral / technical mock interview standards, job readiness, & returning advance assessment criteria  
• Build out infrastructure for tracking employment activities & outcomes & measuring the impact of specific initiatives
• Build & maintain calendar of recurring job opportunities (including apprenticeships & recurring full-time programs)
• Build library of company-specific mock interview materials

What you need to be considered for Strategy & Operations Manager role: 

• 3-5 years of experience in a management consulting, business strategy, or sales enablement role
• Experience in conceptualizing, designing, & implementing data tracking systems & processes 
• Experience in successfully identifying & quantifying opportunities to improve operational effectiveness 
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders to design, implement, & scale initiatives & identify & measure KPIs to track impact 
• Proven & organized project management skills
• Comfort in leading meetings with both junior & senior stakeholders (e.g. Fellows, Employers, Internal Executives) 
• The ability to effectively marry data insights with qualitative human judgment 

Where youll work: 

• This role will work full-time in our Long Island City office 

Salary & Benefits:

The salary range for this role is $100,000 - $120,000 annually. In addition you will be eligible for annual incentive compensation. 

The compensation range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles & recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.  If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Pursuit offers: 

• Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, & kindness are valued
• Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus & a full benefits package
• 401k Match
• Unlimited PTO & an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August & a week-long holiday the last week of December
• Flexible, hybrid work schedule with catered lunches once a week & delicious snacks
• An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech & social impact, & make a direct impact on the communities of those we serve.

Pursuit values diversity: 

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds & experiences, & we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives & affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.