Employment Network Lead

About Pursuit

Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch and advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows go from earning $18,000 to over $90,000 starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings. Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, and Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles and supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance. Since 2013, Pursuit has created ~$1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations. 

Pursuit’s proven solution is built on two interconnected components: training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, and Commit on-the-job training) and a financial product (known as Bond). However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans. Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product and create tools for other organizations, jobs, and places. We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.

We are One Big Team

The passionate and collaborative team at Pursuit gives its all to achieve our mission. And it’s not just staff. We work with employer partners that love hiring our Fellows because they are so well prepared, ranging from big financial firms to scrappy startups, and everything in between. We also activate and engage hundreds of volunteers that come from all areas of the tech industry. These experts and professionals help keep our curriculum fresh and our standards for achievement high by participating in our admissions process, as well as program-specific activities such as interview training, DemoDays, Hackathons, and Capstone projects. 

About the Role

Pursuit is seeking an engaging and enthusiastic individual for our newly created Employment Network Lead opportunity. Pursuit’s Employment function is responsible for the success of our open market jobs strategy, one of the two organizational strategies to drive employment outcomes for Pursuit Fellows: 1) open market jobs 2) committed jobs (enterprise sales contracts with employer customers). Open market jobs have historically represented ~70% of Pursuit jobs. 

With the overarching goal of "Everyone Drives Jobs" as the top priority for 2024, the Employer Network Lead role assumes the responsibility for executing Pursuit's initiatives to mobilize the collective efforts of Pursuit's One Big Team. This team includes a diverse array of stakeholders such as partners, technology and business leaders, volunteers, board members, staff, Fellows, and the wider alumni community.

Reporting to the VP of Employment, the Employer Network Lead, will lead implementation of our network engagement strategy, mobilizing Pursuit's extensive network to facilitate successful job outcomes for Fellows.

As an Employer Network Lead you will: 

• Implement the network engagement plan to mobilize Pursuit's One Big Team to successfully meet Pursuit’s 2024 Fellow employment goals; Supporting the formulation of strategies surrounding network engagement.
• Work with stakeholders across external companies to identify and convince decision makers about hiring from Pursuit; maintaining relationships throughout and beyond the hiring process
• Gather the necessary information about companies and their hiring processes to equip Pursuit Coaches to prepare Fellows to successfully pass interviews
• Mobilize the broader Pursuit network to remove obstacles and support Fellows throughout their job search journey, from initial connections to offer acceptance
• Project manage cross-functional efforts related to network activation.
• Maintain a Fellow Facing up-to-date list of opportunities from our broader network, including recurring opportunities for non-traditional talent, such as fellowships and apprenticeships like AirBnB’s Connect Apprenticeship )
• Facilitate hiring for opportunities that originate from our network through relationship management, sharing insights with coaches to prepare Fellows, and gathering feedback on Fellow progress
• Track Fellows through the hiring process for network-driven opportunities; identify strengths/opportunities in our training to increase job outcomes

What you need to be considered for Employer Network Lead role: 

• At least 5-7 years of experience building and activating professional networks (within the tech industry) and with a proven track record of delivering specified outcomes and achievements
• An in depth familiarity of the tech market landscape, specifically the job market, hiring trends, etc. 
• The ability to effectively engage with a wide array of stakeholders, ranging from C-suite executives down to entry-level tech talent
• The ability to simultaneously apply human judgment and abstract scalable learnings from network activation models
• Experience applying a data-driven approach to developing and measuring cross-functional initiatives
• Experience with or interest in working directly with adults from underserved communities. Someone who views differences between individuals (race, gender, age, cultural heritage, physical ability, education and lifestyle) as an asset and demonstrates an appreciation of the diversity within the Pursuit community 

Where you’ll work: 

• You will work full-time from our Long Island City office, with some work from home flexibility as needed. 

Salary & Benefits:

The salary range for this role is $120,000-$150,000 annually.

The compensation range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.  If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Pursuit offers: 

• Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, and kindness are valued
• Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
• 401k Match
• Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August and a week-long holiday the last week of December
• Flexible, hybrid work schedule with catered lunches once a week and delicious snacks
• An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact, and make a direct impact on the communities of those we serve.

Pursuit values diversity: 

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.

Salary : $90,000 - $150,000