Empowerly is designed to make college admissions guidance accessible to all through data-driven education technology. Our platform uses algorithms and human expertise to match students with their best-match counselors who will assess their applicant competitiveness at top U.S. colleges and universities. We empower students with the tools they need to successfully navigate the complexities of college preparation, program acceptance, and beyond.

Empowerly

Account Executive

Maximize Empowerly’s sales by educating families on college admissions solutions.

• The Account Executive will share Empowerly's diverse products and services with families by developing an understanding of the students’ needs and goals, educating them on Empowerly’s counselors and platform, and developing solutions that will help them explore opportunities to be accepted to their top choice colleges.
• Document and manage complete sales cycles, from qualifying inbound leads to selling Empowerly's suite of solutions (8+ products and services) to families, and accurately forecast your sales pipeline.
• Work both independently and collaboratively as part of various teams within your assigned areas, win business, and reach sales goals.
• Transform prospects into loyal clients and advocates for Empowerly.
• Deepen relationships across the Empowerly family.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, partner, and ambassador to your clients, internal partners, and overall network, demonstrating grace under pressure and high ethical standards.
• Build relationships, live with integrity, and consistently deliver on promises.
• Drive revenue to achieve aggressive monthly targets.
• Track all deal data in HubSpot (deal source, close time, etc.) to understand the best sales strategies.
• Load balance evening and weekend hours to close consumer business.

Senior Account Executive

Counselor

Help students navigate the college admissions process at Empowerly.

• Keep up to date with current college admission changes.
• Available for 20-25 students with flexibility based on schedule and bandwidth.
• Advise students about extracurriculars that expand interests and may potentially present leadership opportunities.
• Help students with meaningful summer plans by applying to internships, explore competitions, research opportunities, and community service options.
• Create a plan for standardized testing that includes strategies for improving scores and help decide which tests are appropriate.
• Help create college lists, rate colleges for students (reach, target, and safety), and offer tips for college visits.
• Guidance through the entire application process: personal statement, activities, resume, recommendation letters, essay review and edits, utilizing research when necessary, reviewing entire application materials before submitting.
• Strategizing plan for early action, early decision, regular decision as well as waitlisted strategies and college choice guidance.
• Discuss financial aid resources and guidance as well as merit scholarship resources.
• Prepare for sessions in advance, be on time, log sessions in a timely manner, stay in touch with students, maintain a healthy relationship with parents, and include parents in all communications.
• Support a wide range of students, including; transfer, undergrad, post graduate, and international.
• Attend monthly team meetings.
• Utilize resources available within Empowerly to provide optimal advice for all students.
• Monitor Empowerly email account and Slack account for up-to-date Empowerly communications.

College Admissions Counselor

Full-stack Engineer

• Consistently ship features and resolve issues to enhance the experience for marketplace counselors, students, and families.
• Lead projects related to the engineering software development
• Align software development approaches across multiple areas under the technical direction of Engineering Leadership
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in the codebase, seeking enhancements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Participate in end-to-end product execution, collaborating closely with Empowerly’s Product Managers and UI/UX designers on interaction and visual design.
• Engage in prototyping, testing, training, and defining support procedures alongside the engineering team, product team, and executive leadership.
• Support the build the technical foundation of the Empowerly platform by designing APIs, coding beautiful UIs, and making effective trade-offs for complex product problems.
• Serve as the go-to person and de-facto engineering feature owner as our team scales
• Experience with our tech stack: 
+ Front End: HTML/ CSS, JavaScript
+ ReactJS and related frameworks
+ Database Familiarity: PostgreSQL
+ Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.

Software Engineer - Full Stack

Product Designer

• Lead designer at Empowerly, working closely with founders, engineers, and reporting to the head of product management
• Co-own the development and execution of product design strategy.
• Evolve the design style guide used across the company.
• Own design thinking throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Actively collaborate with marketing, product, engineering, community, marketing, and co-founders.
• Serve as the voice of design in cross-functional projects.
• Translate design requirements and product strategy into unique, out-of-the-box product ideas.
• Develop designs that drive improved user experiences and metric performance by understanding customer needs.
• Influence design changes in the product based on user research and data insights.
• Create design concepts, flows, wireframes, transitions, interactions, and prototypes.
• Use visualization skills to support product strategy, sparking conversation and gaining alignment with leadership.
• Make abstract and ambiguous ideas concrete, always considering the “future” of design.
• Create functional prototypes of proposed UX/UI solutions to communicate vision, inspire colleagues, and gather feedback from users.
• Develop a unified aesthetic and personality for Empowerly's product.
• Define how the voice and personality are represented in UI patterns, animations, and copy.

Product Designer - UI / UX

Product Manager

• Leading product development
• Understanding user challenges
• Collaborating with engineering teams
• Working on front-end and back-end technologies
• Making a significant impact on product offerings

Associate Product Manager

Chief of Staff

• Support founders and leadership team
• Perform administrative tasks
• Lead Empowerly projects and initiatives
• Understand and suggest improvements to processes and services
• Provide a point of contact across teams
• Be a great teammate and partner
• Ability to work and travel outside normal business hours

Junior Chief of Staff

• Responsible for sharing Empowerly's diverse products and services with families
• Understanding students' needs and goals, educating them about Empowerly's counselors and platform
• Providing solutions to help them achieve their college acceptance goals
• Documenting and managing complete sales cycles
• Transforming prospects into loyal clients and advocates for Empowerly
• Serving as a trusted advisor, partner, and ambassador to clients and internal partners
• Driving revenue to achieve aggressive monthly targets

• Develop and close new business to achieve sales goals
• Educate families about Empowerly's counselors and platform
• Build relationships, deepen trust, and drive revenue
• Travel may be required within the San Francisco Bay area
• Work independently and collaboratively within various teams

• Manage project end-to-end, including design, code, and feedback
• Work with engineering teams on front-end and back-end technologies
• Translate technical capabilities into a product manager role
• Solve ambiguous problems with a collaborative team
• Understand basic UI/UX and address user challenges
• Work with distributed Engineering Team and remote teams
• Contribute to creating intuitive and responsive Web UIs and Mobile UIs
• Contribute to Empowerly APIs and manage Messaging Service
• Contribute to Machine Learning workflows
• Align product roadmap with company's vision


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