At Springboard, we’re on a mission to bridge the world’s skills gap, offering transformative online education in data science, UI/UX design, machine learning, and coding. Our courses may be tech-enabled, but we're ultimately human-centric: each student taps into a vast community throughout their time with us, engaging with fellow students, industry-expert mentors, student advisors, and career coaches, the goal of which is to successfully transition students into their dream job. Through this hybrid approach, we’ve helped thousands of learners revamp their careers and, by extension, their lives, with hundreds of top-notch job offers received every year and a near-perfect placement rate for our program graduates.
Springboard runs an online Strategy and Insights for Data-Driven Executives workshop in which students learn advanced strategy and data-driven thinking and problem solving methodologies with the help of a project-based curriculum and 1-1 guidance from an expert mentor. As part of the program we partner students with a personal 1-1 expert mentor. Our mentor community - the biggest strength of our programs - comprises experts from the best organizations in the world. Our mentors are management consultants, strategy leaders, and roll-up-your-sleeves operations powerhouses at both Fortune 500 companies and top-notch startups (e.g. McKinsey, Bain, Capital One, Lyft, Square).
Responsibilities:
- Have 5+ years of experience as an executive or have extensive experience working with executives in a strategic capacity
- Know how to think about problems in a business context and use data to back up claims
- Are proficient in the topics covered in our curriculum, including data analysis, strategic planning, effective communication and presentation, visualization, storytelling and storylining
- You have experience with strategy development for data-driven initiatives, analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends opportunities and risks, crafting data-driven recommendations for executives, and creating compelling narratives and visualizations
- Can demonstrate your expertise through relevant artifacts in your portfolio or resume (reports, presentations, case studies etc.)
- Are available for weekly, 30-minute video check-ins with students to help them set and achieve learning goals, answer subject matter questions, provide feedback on projects, and career advice
- Are passionate about teaching strategic thinking and strategic thinking itself (thinking like a consultant)
- Are empathetic and have excellent communication skills
