Operations Manager at Stepful

**Who this is for** Stepful is seeking an Operations Manager to lead strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing the student experience and scaling operations. Thi

Work type: hybrid

Location: New York City

Salary: $120,000 – $150,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** Stepful is seeking an Operations Manager to lead strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing the student experience and scaling operations. This role is perfect for a results-oriented individual passionate about improving student journeys from learning to job placement in a dynamic EdTech setting. **Key highlights** This position will involve designing and implementing experiments to boost student retention and outcomes, optimizing processes for a growing team, and owning end-to-end projects including product feature scoping and hiring. Success will be measured by achieving key student success metrics and collaborating with product, learning, and engineering teams. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 3+ years of consulting or business operations experience, ideally in a direct-to-consumer startup, edtech, or healthcare. - Are highly analytical, adept at optimizing metrics and developing actionable plans. - Can effectively balance strategy with hands-on execution and motivate a team. - Embrace a "get it done" attitude and thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Job Description

About Stepful:

Stepful is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners—regardless of background or circumstance—launch high-demand healthcare careers.

In addition to our direct-to-consumer training, Stepful partners with leading healthcare institutions to address the growing national shortage of healthcare workers. Our graduates, including Medical Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians, Nurses, and more, form the talent pipelines at major employers like CVS, NY-Presbyterian, HCA, Providence, and Walgreens.

Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with [a recent $31.5M Series B led by Oak HC/FT](https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-announces-series-b). [We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025](https://www.stepful.com/post/stepful-named-1-edtech-company-in-us-top-10-globally-times-2025-list).

We’re improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere, and improving access to healthcare careers for those who need them most

Our values:

We credit much of our success to our exceptional team. We’re looking for mission-driven builders who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:

Care first: We do whatever it takes for our students to succeed.

Learn quickly: We test, learn with data, and iterate.

Build together: We win when we rely on each other.

Own it: We show up, take initiative, and show pride.

The opportunity:

As an Operations Manager, you will lead strategic initiatives to improve our student experience, overseeing a growing team of student-experience professionals. You will build processes and systems to scale our operations and provide an outstanding learning experience for our new programs.

This role reports directly into our Group Manager, Operations.

What you'll do:

Drive strategic initiatives to improve a large portion of the student journey from learning to job placement.

Design and implement experiments to improve student retention, learning, and placement outcomes, identifying opportunities for improved processes and automation at scale.

Optimize operations and metrics tracking for a growing team of student experience professionals, including coaches, instructors, and placement coordinators.

Own end-to-end projects, including revamping processes, scoping product features, and hiring student experience professionals.

Own and achieve the student success metrics, including learning outcomes, certification, placement, and satisfaction rates.

Work cross-functionally with our product, learning, and engineering teams to provide visibility into students’ and student experience professionals’ feedback to help inform their product roadmaps.

What you'll bring:

You have 3+ years of consulting or business operations experience in a direct-to-consumer startup, preferably in an edtech or healthcare environment.

You are highly analytical, can optimize metrics, and successfully develop action plans to meet business goals.

You can own both strategy & execution

You can motivate a team to support a large number of students

You are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done successfully

You aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty

You learn quickly through experimentation

You thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

Bonus points if:

You have an MBA

You worked at a startup

You have taught or coordinated online courses at scale

You worked in healthcare

Interview Process:

Step 1: Introductory call with Talent Acquisition team member

Step 2: Hiring Manager interview

Step 3: Take-home assignment

Step 4: Virtual panel interview

Step 5: On-site panel interview in NYC

Benefits and Compensation:

Meaningful Equity Stake

Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options

401(k)

FSA, HSA and commuter benefits

Open vacation policy, including:

Guidance of 15 days PTO annually

Stepful closed the last week of December

15 work-from-anywhere days

10 public holidays observed for 2026

The target base salary range for this opportunity is $120,000 - $150,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations.

Stepful is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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