New York, United States
About Pursuit
Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch and advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows earn from eighteen thousand dollars a year to over ninety thousand starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings. Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, and Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles and supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance. Since 2013, Pursuit has created ~$1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations.
Pursuit’s proven solution is built on two interconnected components: training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, and Commit on-the-job training) and a financial product (known as Bond). However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans. Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product and create tools for other organizations, jobs, and places. We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.
We are One Big Team
The passionate and collaborative team at Pursuit gives its all to achieve our mission. And it's not just staff. We work with employer partners that love hiring our Fellows because they are so well prepared, ranging from big financial firms to scrappy startups, and everything in between. We also activate and engage thousands of volunteers that come from all areas of the tech industry and beyond. At Pursuit, we are committed to breaking traditional barriers, focusing on potential rather than pedigree, and providing hands-on experience to empower participants in ways never seen before. Please be sure to review our company values, posted on our website, which will help provide further context on additional concepts that impact how we work here at Pursuit.
General Manager, Core
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Position Overview:
With a decade of proven success and a demonstrated proof of concept, Pursuit is hiring a GM, Core to help lead the organization into the next phase of growth, and enable our vision for national scale.
The Pursuit Core Fellowship is a 4 year leadership training program focused on economic transformation that selects and trains high need New Yorkers to become software developers, at over 300 best-in-class companies, including Peloton, Blackstone, Uber, and Citi. On average, Pursuit Fellows go from making $18,000 pre-program to $90,000+ upon starting their first job, resulting in an estimated lifetime earnings increase of over $2,000,000. The GM Core will drive four key dimensions of organizational success.
The GM Core will be responsible for expanding an existing Core team across all levels (entry level through VP), including instructors, product managers, program managers, strategists, tech integration leaders and more. They will work closely across the leadership team, and especially with the GM, Enterprise and GM, Bond services to help develop industry-facing products. This is a critical role to enable Pursuit to meet our future growth and impact.
Key Responsibilities:
What you need to be considered for the GM, Core role:
*The GM is not expected to have a professional background in education/training. While they will be managing a team responsible for shaping and delivering the learning experience for the Fellows, the GM’s role in shaping the fellowship experience will be to provide strategic and operational leadership around setting a culture and expectation that mimics that of the tech industry, and hold the team accountable to meeting outcomes.*
Where you'll work:
Pursuit offers:
Compensation:
The base compensation for this role will range from $225K - $275K annually. This range is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
Pursuit values diversity:
Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.
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