Primer
Education
MarketManager-Alabama
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“Market Manager - Alabama at Primer. Skills: Market leadership, Educational operations, Growth strategy. Ensure Primers meet Primer standard. Partner with teams for Primer success”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure meeting Primer standard; Drive student growth; Achieve aggressive growth targets; Achieve revenue targets; Achieve margin targets; Achieve expansion targets
Industry & Context.
Navigating ambiguity; Creating scalable systems
Evenings required, Weekends required, Nontraditional hours required, Travel required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience in education leadership, Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, or Principal experience, Experience navigating ambiguity, Experience creating scalable systems, Accountability to aggressive growth targets, Accountability to revenue targets, Accountability to margin targets, Accountability to expansion targets, Proven ability to build relationships internally, Proven ability to build relationships externally, Generalist willing to roll up sleeves, Experience disrupting the status quo
Nice to Have
Education leadership within a physical school environment
What You'll Do.
Ensure Primers meet Primer standard
Partner with teams for Primer success
Drive student growth by testing strategies
Playbook successful ideas
Own local relationships
Support existing Primers
Ensure meeting Primer standard for students
Ensure meeting Primer standard for families
Evaluate new location
Model active monitoring for Leaders
Provide live feedback to Leaders
Redesign pickup/drop-off plan
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with real estate team; Partner with education team; Partner with operations team; Partner with marketing team; Partner with admissions team; Work with product team
Communication Scope
Hosting Open House
Process & Methodology
Build playbooks, Design role
Full Job Description
ABOUT PRIMER Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders. Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re hiring a Market Manager in Alabama: a high impact role that serves as Primer's leader within a market and reports to the Alabama General Manager. You'll be accountable for the growth and educational operations of Primer in Alabama. We're looking for an executor with an education leadership background who is comfortable operating in high opacity environments and keeping multiple balls in the air. You'll be launching new Primers, supporting existing Primers, driving enrollment growth, and generally ensuring that we’re meeting the Primer standard for students and families across Alabama. And finally, because this role is brand new, you'll have an opportunity to help design the role, build playbooks, and influence what success looks like for future hires. You might spend your morning working with the real estate team to evaluate a new location, your mid-day modeling active monitoring for new Primer Leaders and providing live feedback, your afternoon re-designing the pickup/drop-off plan for an existing campus, and your early evening hosting an Open House at a new campus. As our footprint in Alabama grows, this role will continue to evolve and you will evolve with it. What we're trying to do is extremely hard – there's a reason it hasn't been done before. There's a good chance this role will be the hardest work of your life. If you find that slightly-daunting-but-exciting, this might be the role for you. RESPONSIBILITIES - Ensure Primers across Alabama are me
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