Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop persuasive copy for email, digital and print advertising, social media, video, web, collateral, and B2B/B2C communications. Partner with stakeholders and designers to align creative work with business goals, maintain brand voice across audiences and channels, and proofread marketing materials. Manage multiple deadlines while presenting creative recommendations and adapting messaging across product lines.

Develops new higher education partnerships and accounts through outbound sales, relationship building, conferences, virtual meetings, and campus visits. Manages prospects through program development and closure using consultative selling techniques, maintains CRM records, and collaborates with internal operations, academic support, and risk management teams to ensure successful program execution.

Coordinates approximately 150 international academic engagements for university programs. Researches global markets, identifies and contacts speakers and organizations, schedules engagements, tracks contacts in Capstone CRM, and aligns academic content with course objectives. Collaborates with sales, account management, faculty, clients, and international partners; leads client meetings; maintains curriculum and destination materials; supports experiential learning activities; and ensures deadlines, expectations, and engagement details are met.

Design usable, accessible, on-brand digital experiences for WorldStrides’ pre-trip products. Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, clickable Figma prototypes, reusable components, and design-system foundations. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and user research teams across multiple pods, incorporate user feedback, use AI tools to accelerate design exploration, and deliver organized files ready for engineering handoff.

Generates and grows performing arts accounts through prospecting, cold calling, networking, proposals, negotiations, and closing. Manages sales pipelines, profitability, customer needs assessments, and account rebooking while collaborating with account managers, event coordinators, and marketing. Hosts meetings for school and community groups, supports itinerary and budget revisions, and helps coordinate student music events. The role requires achieving sales targets, maintaining strong client relationships, and occasional travel with additional seasonal evening and weekend hours.

Own product strategy and outcomes for financial services and data platforms. Lead payments, billing, refunds, financial aid, data quality, analytics, and Microsoft Fabric migration initiatives. Partner with engineering, design, finance, compliance, and internal data users to frame problems, run experiments, prioritize investments, and improve payment success, chargebacks, data quality, Power BI adoption, and self-service analytics.

Sell international educational travel programs to schools, teachers, and students. Responsibilities include prospecting, developing new and existing business, managing sales pipelines and cycles, assessing client needs, preparing proposals, closing opportunities, meeting sales targets, and contributing market feedback and sales strategies.

Own and build WorldStrides’ events and partner marketing programs from the ground up. Lead the annual events strategy, logistics, budgets, vendors, onsite execution, lead nurturing, and ROI measurement. Develop strategic partnerships with education associations, school districts, and complementary brands, creating co-branded campaigns and joint events. Manage partner contracts, onboarding, enablement, and performance reviews while driving qualified leads, MQLs, and pipeline.