Employment Manager

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. 

About the Role

Pursuit is hiring an Employment Manager to support our program participants, Fellows, and aid them to successfully navigate the job search process and get their first jobs as software engineers. The majority of this role will be delivering workshops and providing coaching and feedback to Fellows on their personal branding, job applications, and networking. This role will also be instrumental in helping to design and implement a scalable and replicable career coaching function that enables Pursuit to meet our five-year strategy. 

This position requires a commitment of 40 hours per week including Saturday and Sunday. The tentative schedule is as follows: 

• Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Monday through Wednesday from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM

 Flexibility is available, and specific hours can be adjusted based on mutual agreement.

About You: 

• You are passionate about our mission, and have experience, or interest in, working directly with adults from underserved communities.
• You have familiarity with the tech industry landscape and job market through experience as part of the hiring process i.e. Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Hiring Manager/Team Leader, Recruitment, etc.
• You enjoy professional development and coaching, inspiring people to reach the highest standards in order to achieve success. 
• You are an outstanding creator of content, for both online resources and reference, and workshops.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure Fellows build strong networks and develop networking skills; role model networking conversations and help Fellows identify appropriate folks to reach out to
• Prep Fellows for networking events, attend alongside Fellows to facilitate networking and provide feedback 
• Track Fellow activities and progress, including ensuring Fellows fill out weekly pipeline reviews
• Help Fellows identify their personal career goals to best impact their job search & educational experience (incl. targeting specific tech roles - i.e., frontend / backend / devops / QA / program management / etc.) 
• Prepare fellows for facilitated hiring opportunities, working with Employer Services team to understand requirements and interview process and create candidate profiles accordingly
• Identify job and networking opportunities and work with Fellows to identify their own opportunities
• Coach on skills needed to perform an effective job search. Lead both recurring one-on-one and group based programming, and help Fellow prepare for upcoming interviews as needed. 
• Keep Fellows on track during their official job search, setting goals and holding them accountable to job application volume, continuous coding and project work
• Support Fellows through the negotiation and acceptance process as needed
• Effectively assess returning advance Fellows to determine job readiness and needs
• Advise Pursuit on the bar for industry-ready job application materials and job readiness requirements and aid in the design of a scalable career coaching function

Requirements: 

• 3 - 5 years professional experience in a role focused on coaching/adult professional development, as a Career Coach, Team Manager, Human Resources,  (Recruiting, Learning & Development, Talent Management, Software Engineering etc.)
• A developed perspective of what it takes to successfully land a job in today’s tech job market as a junior software developer, including knowledge of the tech industry landscape and job market, ideally as part of the hiring process (hiring manager, recruiter, HR team)
• Understanding of the nuances and skill requirements of various technical and developer-adjacent roles (e.g., frontend, backend, devops, QA engineer, IT specialist, sales engineer)
• Data-driven and outcomes-oriented. Comfortable using systems to keep track of large amounts of data and progress to goals and to identify opportunities to collect feedback on work.
• Ability to give constructive, actionable feedback (written and verbally) and to inspire and motivate individuals from all different backgrounds

Nice-to-have:

• Experience using Linkedin and/or other social media to promote self or business
• Experience providing feedback on job application materials 
• Experience leading workshops or classes virtually
• Experience using an LMS 

Where you'll work:

• Long Island City, NY
• This role will support Fellows in both the Day and Nights & Weekends cohorts. Therefore this role will work a non-traditional schedule, including some nights and weekends. 

Pursuit offers: 

• Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, and kindness are valued
• Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
• Unlimited PTO and a week-long Summer break and holiday during the summer and the last week of December

Salary and Benefits: 

The salary for this role is $80,000-$100,000 annually with additional performance-based 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 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.

In addition to competitive compensation, we are happy to provide employees with a range of benefits. Our offerings include premium health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible paid time off, robust 401k matching, and discounted gym memberships.