EXPLORE is looking for a Manager of Business Strategy and Operations. Over the past year, Flatiron School has experienced rapid growth. In partnership with WeWork, we continue to see many exciting opportunities for further expansion. Flatiron School is aiming to increase its campuses, course offerings, and student enrollments, while simultaneously creating a more efficient operating model. The role of the Business Strategy and Operations team is to accelerate the company’s growth trajectory and optimize existing business operations. Your role as the Manager of Business Strategy and Operation will be to work with the Flatiron School executive team and WeWork partners to drive strategic and scalable business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Drive company-level strategic growth planning; collaborate with General Management and Finance teams to create tools and structure to enable agile and effective quarterly, annual, and long-term strategic planning
• Implement and oversee company-level KPIs and OKRs; create qualitative and quantitative reporting mechanisms to facilitate actionable, commercially-oriented processes and solutions
• Lead opportunities for M&A and strategic partnerships that support Flatiron Schools growth plans, including sourcing, diligencing, business planning, and integration processes
• Build analytical frameworks to identify, assess, and determine opportunities for growth
• Lead execution of high priority strategic initiatives and projects, including support for WeWork’s IPO

Qualifications

• You are tactical and know how to get things done quickly and efficiently
• You are a problem solver and able to make creative, forward-looking decisions
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills (as well as Google Sheets and Google Slides)
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manage complex projects with many cross-functional stakeholder
• Maturity Ability to work with executives
• 3+ years experience in Consulting, Investment Banking, or similar Corporate role
• Bachelor's Degree

About Explore

EXPLORE teaches passionate, creative people how to code. We’ve been teaching since 2012, and now we’re developing software and programs to bring our successful curriculum to more students. We are more than just a school — we are a team of mission-driven individuals trying to align education with reality. Over our five years as a school, we’ve helped over one thousand students learn to code and launch careers in tech. To achieve these outcomes, we’ve never let ourselves stop growing – we’ve constantly iterated on our curriculum, evolved our teaching techniques, and created technology to improve our students’ learning experience. For the next step in our growth, Flatiron School has joined the WeWork family. In WeWork, we’ve found a partner who shares the mission we’ve had since the beginning: to enable passionate people to learn the skills they need to pursue careers and lives they love. And that mission won’t change. As part of WeWork, we look forward to working together to expand our in-person and online programs and further increase accessibility to our transformative education.

Some benefits of working at EXPLORE:

• World-class insurance (health, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• Discounts on gym memberships, travel, hotels, cell phone plans, and more lifestyle perks
• Generous retirement savings plans
• Flatiron-specific company events, as well as events and retreats as part of the WeWork family
• Participation in our equity incentive plan
• Commuter benefits
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Unlimited sick days

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