Academic Business Leader

We are seeking an Academic Business Leader to drive the education and successful outcomes of students in their field. As a subject matter expert and respected academic business leader, you will have end-to-end responsibility for growing programs with new, market-relevant and innovative competency-based program offerings, identifying and supporting the implementation of industry partnerships and go-to-market strategies, and delivering great educational outcomes for students.

Responsibilities:

• Provides P&L ownership by managing budget and P&L with a focus on achieving university contribution margins and net new student growth.
• Launches new and revised programs into the education market and operates programs using data, insights, and experience in program management and program marketing.
• Drives a culture of continuous experimentation, measurement, and learning from data to rapidly improve the quality and delivery to students.
• Provides strong people-leadership to directly or indirectly lead a diverse team of people, including program managers, instructional faculty, student coaches, and mentors.
• Utilizes deep understanding of how students learn and combines with innovative curriculum and student support strategies to drive student success and employability.
• Influences others and communicates effectively to improve and promote teamwork, decision-making, and problem-solving.
• Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives and partners to get the work done.
• Deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes and can decide to act without the total picture.
• Maintains responsibility for creating workforce and staffing plans and forms teams with the appropriate diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experiences.
• Learns quickly and extracts lessons learned from failures and mistakes.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Customer and student obsession with a focus on driving successful outcomes for them.
• Industry or academic leader in the discipline.
• Understanding of the industry trends, job opportunities, and educational market trends in the discipline.
• Credible voice of the department in external partnerships and presentation opportunities.
• Execution focus, with the ability to dive deep and live in the details with a fast-paced weekly execution cadence.
• Ability to organize and coordinate activities and results across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to coach and develop direct reports.
• Ability to collaborate with and manage teams, including those in a remote environment, while demonstrating excellence, integrity, and respect.
• Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization.
• Ability to build relationships and influence at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Ability to be an agent of change in a rapidly changing environment.
• Proven ability to analyze data to identify trends and drive innovation.
• Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Job Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in a related field.
• 5 years of relevant experience.
• 5 years of leadership experience, including hiring, managing, and scaling significant teams.
• Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in a related field.
• Experience in higher education.
• Experience in developing online education programs and/or developing and scaling rapidly changing organizations/programs.
• Experience in developing curriculum and/or high-stakes assessments.
• Demonstrated success in change-management, and bringing order and structure to complex situations.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, and mental healthcare.
• Health savings account and flexible spending account.
• Basic and voluntary life insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages.
• Legal and identity theft coverage.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Wellbeing program.
• Discounted WGU tuition.
• Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual.
• Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.