[Hiring] Senior Vice President of Marketing Growth and Partnerships @American College of Education

Role Description

You are passionate about helping students achieve their educational goals. You thrive in a competitive and collaborative team environment. You are comfortable working remotely and have experience collaborating with others in a virtual environment. You possess a strong attention to detail.

As Senior Vice President of Market Growth and Partnerships, you will rebuild and lead our national Market Growth and Partnerships team, a group that lives and works in the communities it serves, and drive incremental student enrollment across the United States. You will own the strategy and operations behind ACE's local presence:

• Building partnerships with school districts.
• Raising awareness of ACE among educators.
• Turning that interest into enrollment in every market we serve.

This is both a people-leadership and a test-and-learn role. You will develop and train the team while running disciplined experiments to identify the activities that drive incremental enrollments at an efficient cost per enrollment. You will also serve as a vital feedback loop, bringing ground-level insight back into the organization to fuel product innovation and new partnerships.

Above all, this role blends a market owner's mindset with a hands-on coach's instinct. You think end-to-end about each market while knowing how to execute locally, develop Market Leads in the field, and surface the right needs and pressures to the organization to solve local challenges.

Qualifications

• 17+ years of progressive experience, including proven success leading growth across multiple markets or territories in the United States and managing a range of account relationships.
• Proven senior leadership building, training, and scaling high-performing field or enrollment teams.
• High data acumen, with a track record of producing strategy and decisions from data insights.
• Deep strength in both strategy and operations, equally comfortable setting direction and executing.
• A consultative, relationship-driven approach to growth, grounded in genuine understanding of customer needs.
• Experience designing and running experiments to optimize performance and cost efficiency.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the United States.
• Passion for ACE's mission and for helping educators serve, lead and achieve.
• A market owner's mindset, with the ability to think end-to-end about a market while executing locally and coaching team members in the field.

Requirements

• Demonstrates self-reliance by meeting/exceeding workflow needs.
• Demonstrates positive attitude and motivation, concern for students, teamwork, and excellent time management skills.
• Follows established processes as outlined by organization and leadership.
• Completes assigned duties based on daily business needs and individual skill set.
• Consistently produces a high volume of quality work.
• Capable, adapts as needed, to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision and with other department personnel.
• Must support and embrace the College’s Impact mission to improve the people and communities we serve through our civic engagement initiatives.
• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Must be "self-motivated" as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Must be collaborative in driving decisions and a team-player.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Builds and maintains student satisfaction.
• Recognizes and anticipates student needs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, & vision Insurance
• HSA and FSA options
• Paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time
• Tuition reimbursement & reduction programs
• Generous PTO
• 401k and employer match
• Full-service wellness and EAP program
• Employee recognition and awards programs
• Employer paid life & AD&D insurance
• Short-term disability
• Employer paid long-term disability
• And more…