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Zen Educate · 1 day ago

City Manager - Chicago

Chicago

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$85K/yr - $102K/yr

5+ years exp

Zen Educate is a rapidly growing company dedicated to transforming education recruitment and addressing teacher shortages. The City Manager will lead the Chicago team by defining growth strategies, managing a high-performing team, and fostering partnerships with education leaders to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency.

EdTechEducation

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Define your region's launch and growth strategy, setting and achieving ambitious revenue targets

Own the overall end-to-end delivery of a new city including planning, hiring, people management, launch, and everything in between

Own the strategy for how to achieve consistent month over month growth in your region

Your team of Account Managers are responsible for delighting schools, and increasing their usage of Zen Educate’s educators and software

Build and coach this strong commercial team to continuously improve service levels and usage in a particular geography

Work hand in hand with Product to build the features and function that your school districts and educators need

Work closely with our Educator Onboarding team and Marketing to ensure you are onboarding the right number of educators at the right time to staff certain roles

Problem solve with Compliance to ensure Zen is meeting the compliance requirements of your state, city, and districts

Strategize with Sales to ensure we are launching in new districts within your city, and expanding revenue as a result

Foster strategic partnerships with education leaders and key district accounts

Own the execution and drive performance improvement of the logistics and operations of dispatching teachers and teaching assistants to work in schools by developing tools, processes, and systems

Like any true start-up, no two weeks will be the same and a general interest in ‘mucking in’ and just getting the job done is crucial

Qualification

Customer Success ManagementRevenue Growth StrategyTeam LeadershipEducation Sector KnowledgeAccount ManagementRelationship ManagementProblem SolvingCollaborationAdaptability