Crimson Rise Team Lead

Crimson Education is the worlds leading college admissions consulting firm with over 1490 Ivy League offers and 2410 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the worlds top universities through expert-led guidance and proven data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Crimson is the only college admissions consultancy that brings together:

• Former Ivy League and Top 20 admissions officers to rigorously review and refine applications

• Professors and PhD teaching fellows from leading universities to guide students through original independent research with pathways to selective peer-reviewed publication or conference presentation

• Past ISEF winners and judges who coach students to compete for state national and international science fair awards

• Capstone project mentors who help students design and scale leadership initiatives with real-world impact measurable outcomes and credible external validation

Were backed by leading VC firms including Tiger Global Heal Partners IceHouse Ventures and Movac and recently closed a USD $40M Series D funding round at a USD $640M valuation. We now operate across 21 markets worldwide including the US Canada UK Singapore Japan Hong Kong Australia and New Zealand.

The Rise Strategy Team spans 4 continents bringing together educators innovators artists athletes researchers and advocates who believe every student deserves a personalized education experience regardless of where theyre coming from. Hailing from top universities worldwide our Strategists bring their personal experiences to the table as they invest in the teams overall expertise and support parents and students in navigating todays increasingly complex education landscape.

As a Crimson Rise Team Lead you will report to the Crimson Rise Head of Service and work closely with the Crimson Rise Head of Operations to ensure an outstanding Crimson Rise client experience successful delivery of Crimson services and the achievement of student goals.

Your primary responsibility will be to role-model for and directly manage Rise Strategists who work with young students (grades 1-8 ages 6-14) and their parents to develop and execute immediate academic extracurricular and personal developmental goals aligned with desired academic or professional pathways. You will personally deliver service to a base of your own students often VIP clients and will continue leading the Strategy team to optimize our programs services. You will also lead hiring onboarding and ongoing training for the Rise Strategy team.

Monitoring team performance and ensuring predictably excellent service quality:

• Recruiting interviewing onboarding and training new staff members

• Monitoring student outcomes and performance for all students in your team

• Providing support and feedback to help direct reports complete their outlined responsibilities to meet and exceed established KPIs

• Running 1:1s and performance reviews

Ensuring professional growth & high-quality student service from your team:

• Providing ongoing coaching both for strategy work specifically and career growth at Crimson

• Maintaining and sharing expert application-specific knowledge and cultural understanding

• Continuing to deliver outstanding service for your own students (at a reduced capacity)

Escalation management:

• Acting as your student pools first point of contact for client complaints questions and issues and while direct reports are on leave

• Working with the Head of Operations on student allocations reallocations and client escalations

• Proactively collaborating with other service teams to resolve any complaints or roadblocks that are relevant to your direct reports

Leading department initiatives:

• Ideating and leading product improvement initiativesincluding student community initiatives resource creation and/or any projects that impact Strategycoaching service team members on effective execution and signing off on finished products in alignment with the Head of Service

• Approving and overseeing project-based work completed by your direct reports
  

• Service quality is VIP-level across your student pool: personalized cohesive and consistent across both Strategy and Tutoring/Mentoring

• Escalations are handled in a timely sensitive manner; cancellation and refund rates remain low

• All KPIs are met for both personal case load and your team at large

• Strategists in your team are up to date on recent admissions trends product changes and rollouts and are confident relaying this information to their current student and parent base

• Strategists in your team have an active development plan and are consistently progressing towards development goals with regular performance feedback; retention is high

• Referrals and renewals grow organically reflecting sustained service confidence

• Bachelors degree from a top U.S. or U.K. university

• Excellent conflict management and cross-cultural communication skills

• Superior written and oral communication skills

• Superior planning and organizational skills

• Resilience when working independently under pressure

• Team-oriented attitude

• Passion for changing students and team members lives along with a willingness to learn and go the extra mile!

• Flexible working environment you will be empowered to structure how you work

• Option to work from our many locations/remotely around the globe (role dependant) with us!

• Limitless development and exposure- our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year.

• Annual training budget - we love to level up!

• Psychologist on staff

• Impressive fireside chats and workshops to help the team continuously level up

• Radical Candour is a feedback approach we live by

• Were a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe!

If youre passionate about education and people and looking for a fast-paced collaborative environment and want to work with cutting-edge technology then wed love to hear from you!

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