City Manager - Los Angeles

Location: Remote, but must be located in Los Angeles area.

Type: Full-TimeSalary: 70,000 - 100,000

About Zen Educate:Zen Educate is a technology company that helps match schools with temporary teaching staff (Substitute teachers, Paraprofessionals, etc.) Our mission is to change the world of education recruitment. Schools spend over $9bn a year on temporary educators, with over $2bn per year of that spent on fees that take money out of the education system.

By leveraging the latest technology, we purpose built a platform that helps schools to pay less whilst teachers earn more!We want students to have access to the best education possible. By improving transparency and communication between schools and teachers, we’re benefitting all parties and ensuring they can work together effectively!Your chance to make a difference!

This is your chance to join a high growth tech startup on the ground floor. We are a collaborative company and you’ll have the opportunity to contribute your own ideas to our ongoing success. We are passionate about learning and development, and aim to maximise both your personal and career growth.

What you’ll be doing:

- Define and Set Targets: Own the overall end to end delivery of a new city or channel including planning, hiring, people management, launch, and everything in between

- Build and coach a strong commercial team to continuously improve service levels and usage in a particular geography

- Relationship Management: Foster strategic partnerships with education leaders

- Work closely with London Head Office to develop identify new geographies for further expansion as well as to build a replicable playbook to launch those territories

- Own the execution and drive performance improvement of the logistics and operations of dispatching teachers and teaching assistants to work in schools

- Get your hands dirty. Like any true start-up, no two weeks will be the same and a general interest in ‘mucking in’ and just getting the job done is crucial

What we offer:

- Opportunity for Rapid Career Progression: As an early employee, you will play a significant role in shaping the company's development and enjoy accelerated career growth opportunities

- Learning Environment: Grow your skills as a professional with a dedicated focus on personal and professional development

.- Social Impact: Join a company that is making a difference in education and positively impacting the lives of students and teachers.

- Ownership: We expect everyone to ‘Act like an Owner’ as a core value so we make everyone an owner in the business with generous stock option grants

What we're looking for:

- Top Performers: Startups are hard. We’re looking for relentless individuals

- Proven track record of hitting targets- Passion for Education: Share our passion for positively impacting education

- Strong Bias to Action: Let’s roll up our sleeves together and get things done

What's in it for you?

- Work that you want to talk about

- Competitive salary

- Ownership in the company

- 15+ days PTO & 9 federal holidays-

Fun-loving, tight-knit team solving a problem that makes a difference

- Health Insurance (Dental and Vision)

- 401k

Diversity and Inclusion At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.

We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $70,000.00-$100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company car
• Company pension
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Work Location: Remote