Relationship Manager

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Help Millions More Students Graduate

GetSet is a growing startup and looking for a Relationship Manager to oversee the portfolio of current customers and ensure successful product adoption for new customers. Your role will be to directly maintain and expand relationships with school staff (e.g. leadership, advisors, counselors, instructors) and students.

Who Are You?  Passionate about helping students graduate!

  • Energized by relationships: you love interacting with different types of people and you thrive at forming close working relationships.
  • Highly organized and resourceful: you are not easily overwhelmed and you overcome challenges with grace.
  • Curious: you are constantly looking for ways to solve the real problems our customers are facing and to improve our product and delivery.
  • Empathetic: you honestly care about helping people and you do so in a friendly, confident, and genuine manner.
  • Insightful: you can analyze qualitative and quantitative data to make intelligent decisions and help us continually improve our product.
  • Hungry: you seek new challenges and aren't afraid to learn from mistakes.

What Will You Be Doing At GetSet?

  • Drive successful launches at new GetSet customer schools.
  • Collaborate with school staff and students to make sure the product works for them.
  • Help the Product Team iterate and improve the product.
  • Travel occasionally (5-15%) to visit with customers and students onsite.

What Should You Already Know How To Do?

  • Experience forming successful relationships with diverse student and staff populations, especially those in the non-traditional higher education systems (e.g. community college, career school, online, etc.).
  • Have at least one of the following in your background:

o   Account management for user-facing enterprise software

o   Advising / counseling

o   Educational psychologist

o   Coaching / mentoring

o   Teaching / tutoring

o   Online community management

  • Minimum two years of experience in client services, account management, or student success roles.

GetSet is a Great Place to Work

  • Competitive salary with bonus based on student success.
  • Comprehensive health insurance and 401(k) plan with generous company match.
  • Options for equity in the company.
  • Personal budget for professional development.
  • Central downtown location next to major El lines.
  • Complimentary in-building gym access.
  • An ergonomic Aeron chair, MacBook Air, and other work productivity tools.

What Do We Do?

GetSet is focused on solving one of America’s largest problems: too many college students drop out before completing a college degree.

  • Fewer than 50% of students who start college will earn a degree.
  • Graduates earn $1 million more, on average, over the course of their lifetimes than students who drop out.
  • Those who drop out are 400% more likely to default on student loans than graduates.

Who Are We?

We are a team with deep expertise in personalized learning, educational and social psychology, and building scalable software solutions.

  • Founding team has two recent exits in education technology. It built and sold PrepMe, the first adaptive learning platform and leading college readiness solution used by hundreds of thousands of students each year.
  • VP Engineering Brian Marick co-authored Agile Manifesto and is a well-known expert on developing strong teams.
  • Chief Scientific Officer Robert Feldman is the Deputy Chancellor at UMass Amherst and created POWER Learning, the most-widely adopted student success framework in the U.S.

We are committed to our values – learn about them here.

 

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111 E Wacker Dr Ste 2601, Chicago, IL 60601

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