Regional Director - Bay Area

Position Summary:
As a Regional Director for AoPS Academy, you play a critical role in helping AoPS Academy grow and reach more students by ensuring regional growth and flourishing campuses. This leadership role demands a dynamic individual to provide strategic direction and oversight, ensuring adherence to educational, growth and performance standards while fostering a culture of accountability.  Effective communication and collaboration is paramount, requiring the ability to report information both up and down the organizational chain and to problem solve closely and successfully with leaders and colleagues across campuses, regions and departments.

Location: 

• Remote - must be located in either of the below two locations 
  • Location 1: Based in San Francisco Bay Area
  • Location 2: Based in New York Metropolitan Area
• This position requires frequent travel within the assigned region and occasional travel outside the area, as well as some evening and weekend hours. 

The Regional Director Will:

• Provide strategic direction and operational oversight for all AoPS Academy campuses within the assigned region, upholding a high operational bar across all. 
• Perform monthly financial review with campus and HQ leadership. Train and support campus leadership in making financially sound business decisions to drive improved financial performance. Hold campus leaders accountable to financial margins. 
• Facilitate resolution of escalated campus issues.
• Establish regional performance standards and growth objectives with HQ teams and campus leaders. 
• Analyze regional and campus performance data and implement improvements as needed. 
• Provide status and KPI updates on each campus to Academy and Company leadership teams.  
• Hold campuses accountable to performance and growth metrics. 
• Train to and uphold AoPS educational mission and standards.  Ensure consistent quality of educational services across all regional campuses by monitoring and evaluating program quality and supporting campus teams in maintaining academic rigor and student engagement.
• Hire, develop, and manage campus leadership teams. Facilitate inter- and cross-regional leadership and campus staff learnings, cohorts and mentorships. 
• Lead and coordinate cross-campus and -departmental initiatives to promote educational, business and customer service best practices across the Academy space.
• Act as a strategic partner to Expansion efforts. 
• Successfully launch new campuses within the assigned region. 
• Provide market insight to inform expansion efforts and partner with Expansion team for market research and new site identification and procurement.
• Communicate, collaborate, and advocate up and down the management chain and across various departments on a wide range of topics, processes and projects.
• Completes other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned.

The ideal candidate has: 
All of the following required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Multi-site leadership and management experience
• Strong financial management skills, including experience with budget development and management, as well as an understanding of margin drivers
• Business or other analytical background to support monitoring of data and budgets
• Exceptional customer service and communication skills

Some or most of the following preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree
• Experience teaching K-12
• Education administration or management 

Why Join AoPS:
This is a remote full-time position. Here are some things you can look forward to:

• Salary: Range for this position is 100K-140K with variable year-end bonus. If living in the Bay Area or NYC the range is 120-160K with a variable year-end bonus.
• Impact/Growth Opp: The opportunity to develop campuses, mentor leadership teams, and contribute to our strategic vision of creating the next generation of problem solvers
• Culture: Work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners who strive to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation
• Flexibility: Casual remote work environment
• Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans   
• Future Planning: 401K with company match
• Quality of Life: PTO plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
• Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus 

Background Check:
Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

Work Authorization:
Please note that in order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B. 

About AoPS:
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country’s top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.