Program Manager

Summary

Join Kiddom's Research Partnerships team as the first dedicated Program Manager, supporting and promoting grant-funded in-classroom initiatives. You will collaborate across departments, interfacing with philanthropic organizations, school districts, and partners. Responsibilities include project management, relationship management, performance monitoring and reporting, risk management, and process improvement. The ideal candidate has experience in cross-functional digital program management, particularly in K-12 education technology or academic research. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills are essential. Kiddom offers competitive salary, equity, health benefits, paid sick days, unlimited vacation time, and paid family leave.

Requirements

• Demonstrate success in cross-functional digital program management, ideally in the K-12 education technology and/or academic research space
• Be an excellent oral and written communicator, able to synthesize and present complex ideas simply and communicate with internal and external stakeholders from senior engineers to kindergarten educators
• Be a natural relationship builder, able to map organizations and build trust and respect with influential individuals
• Be a consensus builder; able to exercise soft power to shepherd priorities through functional workstreams
• Possess exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Balance an ability to work independently with sound judgment; and know when to to flag and escalate issues
• Be process-oriented, creating, documenting, and evolving best practices to allow for scaled impact

Responsibilities

• Project Management - driving the execution of strategic research projects with multiple workstreams, systems, interdependencies and resources
• Relationship Management - acting as one of the primary points of contacts for Kiddom; building and maintaining trust with funders, educators, and research partners
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting - maintaining project documentation, tracking outcomes and reporting progress to stakeholders
• Risk Management - identifying potential project challenges and proposing practical solutions to mitigate them
• Process Improvement - developing standard templates and streamlining processes for recurring project management needs to enhance consistency and scalability

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• 10 paid sick days per year
• Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year
• Paid family leave for eligible employees