About Pursuit
Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch and advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows earn from eighteen thousand dollars a year to over ninety thousand starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings. Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, and Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles and supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance. Since 2013, Pursuit has created ~$1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations.
Pursuit’s proven solution is built on two interconnected components: training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, and Commit on-the-job training) and a financial product (known as Bond). However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans. Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product and create tools for other organizations, jobs, and places. We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.
We are One Big Team
The passionate and collaborative team at Pursuit gives its all to achieve our mission. And it’s not just staff. We work with employer partners that love hiring our Fellows because they are so well prepared, ranging from big financial firms to scrappy startups, and everything in between. We also activate and engage hundreds of volunteers that come from all areas of the tech industry. These experts and professionals help keep our curriculum fresh and our standards for achievement high by participating in our admissions process, as well as program-specific activities such as interview training, DemoDays, Hackathons, and Capstone projects.
Pursuit is building an innovative financial product known as the Pursuit Bond which aims to directly connect capital markets and training organizations through an outcomes-based model. The Pursuit Bond is poised to play a pivotal role in our growth strategy over the next decade and will be a key driver for scale t and a business capable of serving other training and educational institutions.
As the first Data, Insights and Partnership Manager for the Pursuit Bond you will focus on ensuring data integrity in order to build the prototype for a newly forming team and function. You’ll use this data to build out the value proposition for end users, drive outcomes and identify partnership opportunities as we scale this product.
As a Data, Insights and Partnership Manager you will:
- Collaborating with colleagues, compile insights and analytics on the Pursuit Fellows’ journey that will empower strategic growth of the Pursuit Bond platform
- Ensure data integrity throughout Pursuit Fellows’ journey, creating guidelines and guardrails for data hygiene moving forward
- Develop innovative approaches to acquire and maintain data outcomes
- Build partnerships with employers, payroll and payment businesses
- Set up data infrastructure prototype and design for Bond platform
- Develop compelling, insightful data visualizations to effectively communicate key insights
- Build the foundations for a data outcomes and partnerships function that will deliver key insights to a variety of stakeholders, including but not limited to philanthropists, investors, fellows, and employer partners
- Capture key data insights and translate them into user stories to create compelling presentations with data informed recommendations
What you need to be considered for Data, Insights and Partnership Manager role:
- Proven experience working with data to build a roadmap to achieve outcomes and identify new partnerships
- Experience in working with data and ability to recognize patterns
- Interest in both 0 to 1 and scale up You are scrappy and agile, able to be strategic and execute simultaneously
- Curiosity and bias for action
- Research and Innovation Skills: To identify partnership, collaboration and “out of the box” approaches
- Superior Communication skills: Our multi sided bond platform will have different types of users with different needs/perspectives. Great communication skills are essential
Where you’ll work:
- 4 days per week in our Long Island City office
Salary & Benefits:
The salary range for this role is $100,000 - $130,000 base + incentive compensation.
The compensation range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.
Pursuit offers:
- Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, and kindness are valued
- Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
- Catered lunches and delicious snacks
- 401k plus match
- Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit week-long holiday the last week of August and the last week of December
- An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact, and make a direct impact on the communities of those we serve.
Pursuit values diversity:
Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.
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What We Do
Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through our intensive software developer training program, we teach high-need, high-potential adults the technical skills and industry smarts needed to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. In addition to training and career support, Pursuit’s innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations.
Our graduates are hired by leading companies like Pinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to transform their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation. Read about our work in the New York Times: Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?
Why Work With Us
Pursuit is a social enterprise with the energy of a startup. We take new and innovative approaches and channel impact investments to drive greater scale and impact. We are passionate, collaborative, adaptable, and inclusive. Work with us to help underserved communities access life-changing tech opportunities.
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