Senior Director, Executive Community Partnerships (Remote)
At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 28 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
Guild is building out a Community & Social Impact organization sought at developing and leading a coalition of partners in the Guild ecosystem. Guild is a partnerships-led company, and one that often excels at bringing together employers and academic partners to tackle critical challenges for the workforce. In this role, we’ll be extending that partnership and convening power to build out and nurture our broader community of innovators who help us unlock opportunity for the American workforce.
Crafting a community of innovators is an important part of Guild’s brand and long-term vision. This person will work alongside the leaders of our employer and academic partnerships teams – who support those leaders and their organizations as clients – to ensure that they and our broader coalition of advisors, thought leaders, and innovators can come together in a meaningful way that builds impact.
As a Senior Director of Executive Community Partnerships, you will:
- Develop the Guild Experience for our executive community - inclusive of corporate executives (current and past partners), celebrities, advisors, influencers, and select investors, in partnership with our Employer Services teams, GTM and Executive Leadership team
- In addition to an experience, you’ll craft engagement and content management strategy to advise and encourage our communities on a regular and ongoing basis in partnership with Guild’s Brand and Communications teams
- Design and lead strategy for events and experiences sought at our community partners- collaborating with Events, GTM and Policy teams
- Build and manage relationships with existing, former, and potential - executive sponsors across the F1000 through regular outreach and check-ins
- Redesign our Advisory Board governance and engagement strategy - across various constituents
- Oversee the method by which Guild builds out its network management motion to ensure our market-facing teams and leadership are leveraging Guild Community relationships as optimally as possible
- Work closely with the Events and Comms team to bring our Executive Community together for Guild’s annual Opportunity Summit and other Guild proprietary events
- Help craft overall team strategy as a founding senior team member
You are a strong fit for this role if you have:
- Expertise and/or excitement about Guild’s position at the intersection of education, economic mobility, career advancement, the future of work and the future of workers.
- The organizational skills to harness opportunities and get results through creative and engaging experiences - while also being able to work autonomously across partners
- Significant experience handling external relationships and partnerships with executives at F500 companies, universities, governments and/or similar organizations
- A reputation as a highly cross-functional, low ego partner inside and outside of organizations
- The ability to fuel magic when you bring people together - a love of crafting moments of creativity, happiness and alignment through community
- An empath’s ability to build connections – a love of connecting dots between people, ecosystems, and opportunities
- Proven track record to craft scalable operations and processes - particularly in ways that can be used across leaders and other operators in a business
We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market driven, including a base salary range of $185,000 - $237,500 as well as company stock options.
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At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild Education is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Guild requires COVID-19 vaccines for all employees and guests attending Guild events or entering Guild offices. As of February 1, 2022, we will be expanding our in-person vaccination requirement to include booster shots. We will be using both Clear’s Digital Vaccine Card and state-sponsored vaccine passports to verify proof of vaccine. Accommodations or exceptions can be requested for medical or religious reasons.
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