Manager, Software Engineering - Palo Alto, CA, United States - QuestBridge

Description

Organization

QuestBridge is a powerful platform that connects America's brightest low-income students with leading universities and career opportunities. QuestBridge designs and builds programs to develop and support low-income students in accessing and navigating exceptional educational and career experiences. By facilitating these exchanges, QuestBridge aims to increase the number of talented low-income students at the nation's best universities and in the ranks of national leadership. QuestBridge envisions a world where America's leadership encompasses thoughtful and broad-minded decision-makers drawn from every economic segment of society.

Position

The Manager position offers a unique opportunity for someone passionate about applying their technical and management experiences to enhance educational programs and contribute to the growth of a far-reaching entrepreneurial social venture. Reporting to the Managing Director of Data & Engineering, this person will manage projects and people, and execute on operations and initiatives, often working across multiple teams at QuestBridge.

Our Manager will have the opportunity to collaborate with program, data, andengineering team members across other departments for thought partnership, feedback,and growth. This position requires a strong focus on rigor, communication, projectmanagement, and systems-thinking. If you will enjoy applying your skills to systems andengineering that fuel QuestBridge's mission, we look forward to reviewing yourapplication

Responsibilities

Success in this role is defined by achieving the following:

• Develop and maintain current and new software applications used to improve the operation of
  all of our teams at QuestBridge in our work with students, partners, and
  educators
• Collaborate across all QuestBridge teams to identify opportunities for automation
  and more efficient use of technology in operations
• Manage relationship between IT support provider and team members
• Manage network server services
• Strong belief in the goals and mission of QuestBridge.
• Exceptional attention to detail, but able to maintain focus on larger picture
• Strong work ethic, with intense drive to reach goals and contribute to the success
  of the organization
• Entrepreneurial, creative, dynamic
• Energized by working with a revenue-generating social venture in an expansion phase

Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant work experience and in a management role of at least 5 years
• Demonstrated experience working in a centralized role that requires
  collaboration with many teams across a given organization
• Demonstrated experience with Python and SQL
• Exceptional attention to detail, with ability to maintain focus on the larger
  picture
• Strong written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects from start to finish (organizing bandwidth,workflows, and multiple deliverables for on-time delivery) in fast-pacedenvironments

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, quantitative field orequivalent experience
• Experience using CRM platforms and applications

Salary

$154,000-$185,000

Benefits

QuestBridge strives to provide the best possible benefits for our team members. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; generous PTO, holidays, and annual end-of-year office closure; 401k; paid parental leave; remote work stipends; flexible work hours; and many more.

Hours and Location

This is a full-time position remote within the US. Employees will be expected to be engaged online and travel approximately once per quarter.

Application Process

Please include a thoughtful cover letter with your application, and a sample of past data-related projects and any relevant code from the project. Thank you for your interest in employment with QuestBridge. QuestBridge is an equal opportunity employer.