[Remote] Student Success Program Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stepful is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners launch high-demand healthcare careers. The Student Success Program Manager will oversee instructor logistics and manage a network of coaches to support students' post-program career searches.

Responsibilities

• You'll begin in a coverage capacity while a team member is on a planned leave, owning the instructor-facing logistics that keep our certificate programs running
• Own instructor scheduling across 90+ instructors and active certificate programs, ensuring every cohort has the right instructor at the right time
• Coordinate sub coverage when instructors are unavailable, maintaining continuity for students
• Handle invoice operations — reviewing, processing, and tracking instructor invoices accurately and on time
• Own cohort setup operations, ensuring every program is configured and ready to launch without friction
• Serve as the operational point of contact for instructors, fielding questions and resolving scheduling issues as they arise
• Coordinate and support a network of 1099 coaches who provide first-line support to Stepful students
• Lead onboarding of new coaches and drive continuous improvement and best practice sharing to ensure communication reflects Stepful's supportive tone
• Meet weekly 1:1 with coaches to review student load, provide actionable feedback, and support their development
• Assess coach quality and provide constructive guidance on how they can best support students
• Track student, cohort, and partner-level outcomes — including retention, graduation, certification, externship placement, and job placement rates
• Run weekly or biweekly cohort-specific task force meetings to assess progress and hit success metrics
• Proactively maintain data and reports to support the client success team
• Communicate with enterprise partners on student progress

Skills

• 3+ years in operations, program coordination, or workforce/staffing operations
• Experience managing scheduling across a distributed workforce — instructors, contractors, tutors, or shift workers
• Strong tool-builder in Google Sheets and/or Airtable. Ability to use Claude CoWork is strongly preferred
• Ability to work closely with the hiring manager during a fast-moving leave coverage period, including multiple weekly check-ins and operational planning sessions
• Excellent async communicator who can coordinate across multiple teams using Slack
• Comfortable operating with SOPs in hand but limited ramp time — this role starts fast
• Willingness and ability to work a EST time zone schedule, Monday through Friday
• Healthcare or education workforce experience is a plus, not required
• Start-up experience is a plus, not required

Benefits

• Meaningful Equity Stake
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options
• 401(k)
• FSA, HSA and commuter benefits
• Learning stipend
• Open vacation policy, including: + Guidance of 15 days PTO annually + Stepful closed the last week of December + 15 work-from-anywhere days + 10 public holidays observed for 2026

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