Strategic Partnership Lead, AI Products

Who we are:

CollegeVine is an AI company with a mission to bring lifelong guidance to the next generation. Facilitated by Sage, CollegeVineʼs AI advisor, the platform guides millions of students with personalized advice and actionable insights and empowers students to navigate their admissions journey proactively. Meanwhile, we are also transforming recruitment at colleges, universities, and other institutions. By leveraging advanced AI agents, proprietary data, and an extensive network of millions of high school students, CollegeVine enables these institutions to hyper-personalize their recruitment activities at scale and across multiple modalities.

About the role:

As a Strategic Partnership Lead at CollegeVine, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our partners achieve their enrollment goals and recognize the value of our product. You will serve as a subject matter expert and strategic thought partner for customers to ensure their success.

Responsibilities:

1. Strategic partnership development: You will be responsible for building and maintaining a trusted relationship with the decision maker and other key stakeholders, and act as their main thought partner on enrollment strategies.
2. Comprehensive strategy creation: You will work with each partner to understand their current enrollment funnel, diagnose key issues, and identify opportunities for the AI Recruiter to add value. You will develop a customized strategy document for each partner that outlines the path to achieving their enrollment goals.
3. AI Recruiter product optimization: You’ll provide ongoing, actionable feedback to the product team on how to enhance the AI Recruiter tool to better meet partner needs, driving product improvements that led to increased partner satisfaction and success.
4. Implementation and metric tracking: You will ensure the successful implementation of proposed strategies and new tools across partners. To monitor effectiveness, you will maintain a dashboard of key metrics for each partner, tracking their progress and making data-driven adjustments as needed to optimize performance.
5. Ongoing relationship management: You will lead regular strategy syncs with partners to review performance, celebrate wins, address concerns, and adjust strategies.

Requirements:

• A 4-year degree
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience leveraging strong analytical skills to build effective strategies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in management consulting.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts.
• Proficiency in Tableau and similar data visualization tools.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

CollegeVine was originally founded in 2016 in Cambridge, MA and reaches over 20 million families annually in search of guidance. Our roots are in delivering near- peer mentorship at scale, which has since evolved to delivering lifelong guidance through AI and a vast professional network. We have raised over $66m in venture funding from dedicated investors such as Morningside Technology Ventures (Xiaomi, TikTok), the founding partner of 5Y Capital, Fidelity, University Ventures, and more. In 2020, after years of being a remote-friendly company, CollegeVine became a fully remote company centered on Eastern Time with a diverse cast of team members based predominantly in the United States, but also around the world.