Manager, IM

ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Sound simple? We strive to keep it that way! Our mission is to give schools the power to incredibly enhance family engagement for all students. ParentSquare and RemindHub, our flagship products, serve over 22 million students and drive our mission by providing unified communications tools -forms, sign ups, payments, RSVPs, direct messaging, language translations, chat and more. Remind Chat, our free product, reaches over 80% of K-12 students, providing a safe and easy-to-use platform for direct communication between teachers and families. And our latest innovation, SmartSites, offers state-of-the-art websites for school districts, enhancing their online presence and accessibility. 

We are not just creating a product; we are creating empowered educators and engaged parents to improve the lives of all students.  We are passionate advocates for our  customers and for our employees and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

As the first point of contact, post-sale, our Implementation team sets the tone for our customer experience. We are searching for a dynamic Manager, Implementation to lead a team focused on providing our newest customers a delightful and seamless implementation process. These Implementation Managers will work to ensure each customer has a  successful onboarding journey. You’ll provide guidance, oversight and training to help us scale our Implementation process as well as achieve our Implementation KPI’s. 

Most importantly, you’re someone who shares in our passion for improving the lives of students through communication. 

• Hiring, training, motivating and coaching Implementation Managers as they provide attentive, efficient service to customers, assessing employee performance and providing helpful feedback and training opportunities.
• Accomplishes team results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Defines objectives, identifies and evaluates trends and options, chooses a course of action, and evaluates outcomes.
• Maintains quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards, analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems, and recommending system improvements.
• Maintaining exceptional customer satisfaction while completing timely and accurate data integration, system configuration and initial training
• Organize and oversee team training needs in collaboration with engineering and the Directors of Implementation and Support
• Troubleshoot, oversee and support/escalate issues in the implementation process in order to find a timely and correct solution 
• Maintaining up-to-date internal resources as needed for the Implementation team
• Providing backup support for our customer support desk during our high volume periods

• 2+ years of experience managing or leading a team of 5 or more. 
• 2+ years of experience and proven success in customer implementations within an Edtech company or school/district
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) from an accredited college or university preferred 
• Excellent project and time management skills with the ability to maintain multiple different projects in different phases at the same time
• Extensive experience in leveraging technology to support implementation (i.e. Hubspot, Jira, Zendesk)
• Familiarity with SFTP and API for the purpose of collecting data.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal)
• Strong work ethic and ability to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment.

You’ll get your foot in the door as our company continues to grow. We’re big believers in work-life balance and provide:

• Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
• An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1 
• Paid Parental Leave
• Stock options
• Health + wellness reimbursements
• PTO that increases each year
• 16 paid holidays, including your birthday! 

As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive. 

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The salary range for this role will be $90,000 to $115,000, DOE.