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GreatSchools is an independent, nonprofit organization that inspires and guides parents to become effective champions of their children's education at home and in their communities. Parents turn to us to find the right schools for their children, to get practical advice and information that will help them raise successful, college-ready kids, and to support the schools in their communities.
Founded in 1998, GreatSchools reaches more than 37 million people each year - approximately one-in-three American families with school-age children. With profiles of 200,000 public, public charter, and private schools serving students from Pre-K through high school and more than 800,000 parent ratings and reviews of schools, GreatSchools is the most comprehensive source of information on school quality today.
GreatSchools is supported by numerous foundations and corporations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.
Unless otherwise specified, all of our open positions are headquartered in our San Francisco, CA office.
Sorry, we do not offer relocation assistance.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek to recruit a diverse workforce.
Positions Available:
Sales Marketing Manager
HTML Email Producer
Business Insights Manager
DC Program Director
Accountant (part-time)
Software Engineer
Sales Marketing Manager
In this role, you will be responsible for providing pre- and post-sales support to our online advertising team. This is a key position within our organization, perfect for a smart, rising star who is passionate about online advertising, emerging technology, and finding scalable solutions for revenue generating advertising partners. This role will serve as the primary liaison between Marketing and Sales. The Sales Marketing Manager reports directly to the Director of Online Marketing.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Pre-Sales/RFP Response:
- Work closely with other key internal teams (Sales, Sales Planning, Campaign Manager, Editorial, Design, Business Insights, Ad Ops, etc.) to brainstorm specific marketing programs and solutions for key advertising partners
- Develop smart, unique, 'custom', yet vetted and executable marketing programs for large strategic advertising partners quickly
- Generate high-quality, client facing presentations (PowerPoint, In Design, etc.) that bring the marketing program to life as well as generate accompanying documentation describing details of marketing program for internal audiences, with only short turn-around time (i.e. 24-48 hours)
- Ability to quickly and effectively negotiate internal teams to get conceptual 'buy off' on non-existing elements of a potential marketing partnership
- Sales Marketing Collateral:
- Responsible for generating and maintaining all outward sales marketing materials including overall general sales presentation, individual advertising product opportunities, audience profiles, competitive information, case studies, etc.
- Create 'custom' slides for RFP's as needed, that are vetted and approved internally prior to being submitted to external advertising partners
- Create strategy for developing scalable sales materials to support sales needs
- Work with Design to create consistent, strong marketing materials that speak to the needs of our advertisers
- Manage regular outbound email newsletter for advertisers and agencies, communicating latest news from GreatSchools and valuable insights to this audience
- Research Support:
- Pull comScore and Omniture data to support individual RFP's and proposals
- Work with Business Insights team to construct and conduct research studies that specifically support the sales needs, both short term and long term studies, including consumer facing research to understanding our customers from the mindset of the advertisers
- Product Management/Ad Products:
- Create and manage ongoing communication plan for ad products; Translate pipeline into sales-ready materials that communicate new opportunities, including key specifications, timing, proposed use-cases and capabilities
- Research, define, scope, and manage the implementation of any new ad products and/or and media solutions from conception to launch, working cross-functionally with Sales Campaign Manager, Engineering, Product, Design
- Manage the Marketing Calendar which supports sales programs and initiatives, to ensure that there is transparency and clarity into programs, what's been sold, what needs to be delivered, etc.
Experience/Education/Skills Required:
- Bachelor's degree required (emphasis in marketing or digital media preferred)
- Minimum 4 years direct online sales marketing experience working for an advertising-supported website required; experience with a general parenting or education website a plus
- Proven experience in 'story telling' and bringing concepts to life quickly and effectively via PowerPoint
- Excellent copy-writing skills, with experience writing for advertisers and agencies in an easy and real voice
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional, matrix environment
- Solid understanding of emerging trends specific to advertising and revenue in rich media, mobile, social media and video
- Familiarity with ad serving technology, rich media technology; Omniture and comScore required
- Expertise in all marketing disciplines from brand strategy and positioning to advertising, direct marketing and customer acquisition programs
- Strong communicator, team leader and writer
- Ability to drive ideas from concept to completion through strong organizational, project management and teamwork skills
- Excellent communication and time management skills
- Diplomatic and cool under pressure
How To Apply:
Submit a cover letter including salary requirements, a writing sample and a resume in an email to jobs+salesmktgmgr.gs@greatschools.org
"Sales Marketing Manager" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No calls please.
HTML Email Producer
The HTML Email Producer will support the GreatSchools marketing team with the day-to-day production of all consumer-facing emails. This is a full-time temporary position that involves coordinating the email production cycle, as well as coding, testing and tracking emails sent on a regular basis in a deadline-driven environment.
Candidates must have strong knowledge of HTML and CSS, as well as hands-on campaign management within an email service provider.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Plan, implement, test and send a variety of segmented, targeted, and triggered emails from within our email service provider system (ExactTarget).
- Develop data queries and scripting needed to support dynamic and conditional content in emails.
- Coordinate and maintain email calendar to meet desired execution dates, maximize the audience reach, and regularly communicate the schedule out to the team.
- Coordinate email copy and art change requests.
- Analyze campaign and newsletter performance (open rates, CTRs, unsubscribes, etc.) and provide recommendations to improve email channel performance.
- Keep up to date on standards, regulations and best practices for email deliverability, including assessing major ESP standards, best practices, SPAM and bounce processing.
- Document standards and best practices and make recommendations to optimize email strategy and design.
- Program and test new templates to support new email products.
- Other duties, as needed, to support marketing campaigns.
Experience/Skills/Education:
- Must-haves:
- Strong knowledge of HTML and CSS required
- Strong technical skills, including experience using email distribution and reporting applications, understanding of A/B testing, relational databases, writing scripts and database queries (MySQL), HTML and HTML editing tools, basics of Photoshop (resizing/optimizing images)
- Knowledge of ExactTarget or comparable email service provider is required
- Extreme attention to detail
- Ability to adapt and work well cross functionally
- Nice-to-haves:
- BA/BS in marketing, business or related field preferred
- Minimum 1-2 years' work experience in a related field
- Strong knowledge of HTML and CSS required
- Strong understanding of up-to-date marketing and email communication strategies and best practices around permission-based marketing, deliverability, personalization, segmentation and SPAM
- Knowledge of CAN-SPAM laws and regulations
- Strong project manager and innovative problem solver who is intensely detail-oriented and results-focused
- Strong written, time management and oral communication skills
- Experience with other business systems (e.g., Omniture, Google Analytics) is a plus
This is a full-time position, temporary position through December 2012 with the potential to grow into a full-time, permanent role. This position is located in our San Francisco office. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+htmlemailproducer.gs@greatschools.org, with
"HTML Email Producer" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
Business Insights Manager
Are you a rock star insights manager who wants their work to support positive social change? We are looking for a Business Insights Manager to join our team to do just that. You'll be in good company here, because what we do best is leverage best practices in online and social media to help parents support their children's education. You will help determine, through site instrumentation and data analysis, how GreatSchools can optimize the delivery of helpful information, tools and services to the 41 million people we serve each year in order to maximize our social impact. In rising to this challenge you exhibit creativity, flexible thinking and optimism, while staying grounded in your deep experience in business analysis and web analytics.
As a member of the Business Insights team, you will report to the Vice President of Business Insights and manage one analyst (to be hired). You will manage a wide range of projects, independently at times and sometimes in close collaboration with sales, ad operations, editorial, engineering, marketing and product staff. Your analysis and recommendations will influence organization-level strategy, processes and decisions. Your skills make you very popular in our office, where decisions are driven by evidence, and innovation is supported by a test-and-learn culture.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Providing insights and analysis to support decision-making and innovation aligned with our organization's goals.
- Advising and supporting product managers on effective A/B and multivariate test design aligned with our goals, and make optimal use of additional targeting features available in Omniture.
- Managing our analytics systems and processes to ensure that we are tracking social impact, brand and sustainability KPIs. You and your analyst will create and regularly update dashboards and special reports used across the organization, specifically for web analytics, sales forecast, ad mix, and tracking leading indicators of social impact.
- Ensuring that our web sites have proper site instrumentation that is optimized for measuring indicators of social impact and delivering maximum customer value. You will also be responsible for maintaining consistency between web site instrumentation and ad serving taxonomy.
- Assessing revenue opportunities, including sales forecasting, price-setting and scenario planning across ad sales, business development and products. In ad sales, this includes elements of yield optimization to identify growth opportunities, such as high value audience segments, advertiser categories and pricing/bundling strategies.
- Helping senior leadership understand our competitive landscape, and maintaining expert POV on important trends in web/mobile publishing, digital advertising, analytics, segmentation and targeting.
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
Required skills (or demonstrated ability to pick them up quickly):
- 5+ years of experience in an online ad-supported publishing environment, either in web analytics or ad yield optimization, analyzing large sets of user and/or ad sales data
- Experience in Omniture instrumentation, including tagging, hierarchy, targeting, testing
- Familiarity with (ability to have an intelligent conversation about) ad operations, including ad serving platforms, tagging, inventory management, billing and/or other related processes
- Able to guide product teams through the design and set-up of custom feature testing (A/B, multivariate)
- Measuring and optimizing conversion from email and referral traffic, through funnel and click stream analysis
- Familiarity with internet programming, including HTML and JavaScript
- Right-size business analysis skills-you know how do a quick back of the envelope, and are equally comfortable modeling scenarios with multiple unknown variables
- Great data analysis skills, ready and able to go beyond Excel to use BI tools to link data from different sources, Omniture, ad server, and internal structured databases
- Demonstrated management skills, including prioritization, project planning and management, coaching of peers and direct reports, and ability to up-level important insights
- Strong organizational, verbal, and analytical skills and incredible attention to detail
- Plus: Experience with mapping web site taxonomies to support ad inventory management, yield insights and identifying optimal ad packages
This is a full-time position and is located in our San Francisco office. Director-level candidates with 8+ years of experience are also encouraged to apply. Only apply if this is what you are seeking.
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+businsightsmgr.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Business Insights Manager" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
DC Program Director
We are in our third year of an ambitious program to improve educational outcomes for DC children by inspiring and guiding parents to be involved. This project, a part of the GreatSchools Local initiative, drives innovation and proves results within the GreatSchools organization by partnering with a wide range of local DC organizations. Our goal is to demonstrate positive outcomes on children's learning by providing parents with technology-based tools that help them choose the right school for their children and support their children's educational success.
The GreatSchools DC Program Director will work to drive initiatives within GS and within the DC community that provide high value to families. Most work will be conducted from Washington, DC; however, occasional travel to the GreatSchools San Francisco headquarters office and other locales may be necessary.
This is not your typical 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, stay at your desk kind of job. This job is perfect for a visionary, tech-savvy master of partnerships who thrives in a politically-charged environment and can blend technology solutions with outreach efforts to revolutionize parent engagement. Sometimes work will be required in the evenings or on weekends. You will be out in the community one day and at your desk the next; each day brings something different.
This position reports directly to the Director of Local Programs.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Program Direction and Communication: (35%)
- Develop and direct a strategic plan for expanding and diversifying GreatSchools Local projects in Washington, DC and potentially the greater DC area
- Envision and champion new product and service ideas that will serve parents in DC and beyond
- Generate and implement responses to GS product research and development needs as they arise
- Support development and iteration of mobile-friendly web-based services to support school choice and parent engagement in children's education in DC and beyond
- Direct and manage day-to-day activities to promote and sustain GS DC projects, such as:
- Ensure that information is collected and current for all DC schools for online and print use-build and maintain relationships with all individual schools and school entities (e.g. DC Public Schools, OSSE, etc.)
- Maintain a database of all partnerships, users and materials distributed
- Create and implement a strategy to secure parent reviews of local schools quality and climate
- Coordinate with GS finance and development staff to create and maintain a local budget that drives innovation and incorporates new initiatives as they arise
- Hire and manage DC Local staff
- Monitor project progress and provide reports to funders and GreatSchools national staff
- Partnership Development: (30%)
- Cultivate and maintain new and current community partner relationships, including schools, government agencies, education support agencies, etc. necessary to acquire information for school guides, conduct parent trainings and evolve the program offering to increase impact
- Incorporate information and initiatives launched by other local partners into GS tools and processes as appropriate (Don't recreate the wheel!)
- Seek local partnerships that may allow GS to develop new tools with the potential to scale to other locales
- Participate in education policy meetings, conferences and community events that affect partnership and product development
- Fundraising: (20%)
- Work with GS development staff to raise funds for Local programs, with an emphasis on DC
- Develop and implement a GS DC fundraising plan, in collaboration with other SF staff and consultants
- Cultivate and develop local and regional funding sources
- Learn and use SmartSheet to track fundraising efforts
- Provide data and documents necessary for proposals, letters of inquiry, donor letters, etc.
- Metrics & Assessment: (15%)
- Set appropriate DC goals, objectives and benchmarks that align with national and Local goals
- Assist DC team to set personal goals and metrics that align with DC Local goals and metrics
- Implement the GS DC program survey and other research efforts with parents as needed
- Support national and local feedback efforts with education partners, parents and/or students for GS National as needed
Experience/Education/Skills Required:
The successful candidate for this position will have demonstrated experience in maintaining a network of partnerships and community mobilization and training. Experience in education-related initiatives is also necessary. He or she will also have strong communication and writing skills, and have a working knowledge of Microsoft office, including Excel.
The ideal candidate:
- Has a Bachelor's Degree
- Has 3-5 years' experience in directing complicated projects
- Has experience and aptitude driving technology and program design innovation
- Thinks creatively and with vision and agility to respond to an ever-changing climate, while being grounded in reality
- Forms and maintains healthy, mutually-beneficial relationships with competing interests in a politically charged environment
- Has the ability to build trusting relationships with DC public, private, and charter K-12 schools and the entities that work with them, such as OSSE, the DCPCSB, etc.
- Leverages human resources and manages work well from local and national staff, volunteers and community partners
- Communicates effectively and proactively in person and virtually, using a variety of styles, mediums and technologies and across a wide range of partners and parents with different levels of skill and knowledge
- Holds an attitude of customer service toward ALL internal and external stakeholders with consistent practices to back up that attitude
- Prioritizes efficiently and makes quick, consistent decisions based on a hierarchy of priorities, both national and local
- Demonstrates an understanding of how parents should support and guide their children's education
- Demonstrates a commitment to educational quality across the spectrum of school types
- Is familiar with current educational events and issues and has a strong knowledge of various Washington, DC communities, including but not limited to the education funding, education advocacy, and Anacostia parent communities
- Is able to mobilize and work with low-income and low-literacy communities and parents
- Displays a proven commitment to education and educational development
- Is self-motivated with the ability to work effectively both independently and within a team
How To Apply:
Submit a cover letter including salary requirements and a resume here. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered. This is a full-time position based in Washington, DC.
Only apply if this is what you are seeking. No calls please.
Accountant (part-time)
We are looking for a part-time (20 hours/week) accountant who will provide support to our Accounting Manager. Experience in accounting operations and familiarity with SAGE MIP and Microsoft Office applications preferred.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Process vendor invoices and respond to inquiries.
- Review and process expense reimbursements.
- Process monthly corporate credit card charges and reconcile against statements.
- Track and maintain records for fixed assets.
- Prepare monthly accruals, depreciation and journal entries.
- Assist with AR collections and processing cash receipts.
- Assist with day-to-day accounting tasks and special projects such as tax and audit preparation, year-end 1099 forms issuance, and account reconciliations.
- Maintain accounting and finance files.
Experience/Skills/Education:
- Bachelor's degree and 2+ years' relevant accounting experience
- Self-starter capable of managing and prioritizing multiple projects
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
- Sensitive to confidential information and ability to keep personnel issues and information confidential
- Strong skills with Microsoft Excel and experience with SAGE MIP or similar accounting software preferred
- Nonprofit accounting experience a plus
This is a part-time (20 hours/week) position and is located in our San Francisco office. Only apply if this is what you are seeking. No phone please.
How To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, including salary requirements and resume to jobs+accountant.gs@greatschools.org, with
"Accountant" in the subject line. Your cover letter should explain why you want to work for GreatSchools. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.
No phone calls please.
Software Engineer
You'll be responsible for designing and building web application features with a focus on the server side. You excel at Java fundamentals, know your SQL, and can find your way around Spring MVC and Hibernate. You've done full-stack development, so you're happy to write HTML and CSS when needed. You think JavaScript and jQuery are fun! This is a temporary position through September 28, 2012 and is located in our San Francisco office.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and develop web application features focusing on server-side Java and database development
- Serve as the sole development resource on small and medium-size enhancements while collaborating with other software and front-end engineers on larger projects
- Work closely with product managers to define and estimate new functionality, and assist the QA team with verifying and shipping bug-free code
Experience/Skills Required:
- Strong experience building web applications in Java, preferably using Spring MVC and Hibernate.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. jQuery experience is welcome!
- Familiarity with SQL and database design.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design, unit testing, version control, and software design principles.
- Experience collaborating with product managers, front-end engineers, and QA.
How To Apply:
Please apply here.
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