Podium Education
Director of Employer Network
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Other
🗓️ August 4th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Podium Education is hiring a Director of Employer Network. The role involves leading the engagement, management, and development of employer partner relationships while collaborating with internal teams to align partnerships with organizational goals. The Director will also act as an advocate for employer partners, translating feedback into actionable insights and expanding the employer ecosystem in the early talent space.
Highlights
- Manage a portfolio of employer partners to ensure engagement and satisfaction.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate employer partnerships into product and program strategies.
- Advocate for employer needs by synthesizing feedback and monitoring industry trends.
- Develop new employer partnerships to grow the network.
- Requires 3–7 years of experience in employer partnerships, recruiting, workforce development, or higher education focused on early talent.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills needed.
- A strategic thinker with the ability to balance big-picture goals and tactical execution.
- Experience or network in the early talent or workforce space is preferred.
- Benefits include 401k, health, vision, dental insurance, unlimited PTO, mental health support, and company-paid therapy sessions.
- Access to professional development through Global Experiential Programs and supportive leave policies.
Director of Employer Network Full Description
Director of Employer Network
Full time
Remote
Who we are
Podium Education partners with colleges and companies to supercharge the undergraduate degree with skills, experience, and a bridge to a great career. In 2023, Podium was the largest accredited producer of technical talent in the United States. Podium serves a population of over 1,000,000 students across more than 70 of the largest and most well-known universities in the country, including Georgetown, UNC, Harvard, ASU, and Texas A&M. In 2023, Podium acquired Untapped, the leading all in one early career software and talent marketplace, to further our mission of making sure every college student has a path to a great career. Together we are building the end to end platform from college to career.
Podium Education programs are offered as online courses within standard university semesters. Through Podium, students gain real-world experience while tackling projects from the world's most recognized brands, such as Spotify, Netflix, Shopify, Uber, Google, and Airbnb. Our flagship program is the Global Career Accelerator (here’s an example: https://www.globaltech.asu.edu/about) which runs at 70+ universities around the country.
- Student Experience - Customer NPS is better than Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.
- Student Access - Programs are for credit, count towards graduation, and are financial aid eligible.
- Student Outcomes - Their undergraduate students go on to work at places like JP Morgan, Airbnb, Stripe and Deloitte directly though our careers marketplace.
Podium Education is a privately held growth stage company based in Austin, TX with prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, Owl Ventures, Lumos Capital Group, Learn Capital, Lachy Groom, Goldcrest Capital, and Album VC.
The Role
We’re looking for a Director of Employer Network to lead the engagement, management, and development of our employer partner network. This role is a combination of both relationship management and product partnerships. You’ll serve as a key connector between leading employers and our internal teams, ensuring we deeply understand what our partners need and can integrate that perspective into our broader product and programmatic strategy.
This role is ideal for someone with a background in the early career talent space—whether from workforce development, career services, recruiting, or higher education—who thrives on building relationships, thinking strategically, and helping develop an ecosystem from an early stage.
Key Responsibilities
Account Management & Customer Success
The Role
We’re looking for a Director of Employer Network to lead the engagement, management, and development of our employer partner network. This role is a combination of both relationship management and product partnerships. You’ll serve as a key connector between leading employers and our internal teams, ensuring we deeply understand what our partners need and can integrate that perspective into our broader product and programmatic strategy.
This role is ideal for someone with a background in the early career talent space—whether from workforce development, career services, recruiting, or higher education—who thrives on building relationships, thinking strategically, and helping develop an ecosystem from an early stage.
Key Responsibilities
Account Management & Customer Success
- Serve as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of employer partners participating in our network.
- Drive engagement and satisfaction with employer partners to ensure continued growth of the network and ongoing relationships with high-value brands
- Coordinate touchpoints, check-ins, and ongoing communication to keep partners aligned and informed.
Product Partnership Strategy
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams (e.g., product, programs, marketing) to align employer partnerships with broader organizational goals.
- Strategically deploy employer partners into various programmatic or product initiatives, helping design pilots or use cases that serve both partner and organizational needs.
- Identify opportunities to deepen partner involvement or expand their engagement within our network.
Voice of the Employer
- Act as the internal advocate for employer partners, synthesizing feedback and translating it into actionable insights for product, strategy, and program design.
Monitor trends in employer hiring, early talent pathways, and campus-to-career transitions to ensure our network and product remain relevant and high-impact.
Ecosystem Development
- Leverage your network and knowledge of the college-to-career or early talent space to help grow our employer ecosystem through new partnership development.
- Support outreach to new employers when strategic, helping to onboard them in ways that align with our values and goals.
Qualifications
- 3–7 years of experience in employer partnerships, recruiting, workforce development, higher education, or a related field focused on early talent or the college-to-career pipeline.
- Demonstrated success in managing strategic relationships or partnerships—ideally in a mission-driven or product-oriented organization.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- A creative, strategic thinker with the ability to see both the big picture and the tactical steps needed to execute.
- Deep understanding of and/or existing network in the early talent or workforce space is strongly preferred.
This role is remote-flexible. We are located on South Congress Ave (next door to Allen’s Boots!) and would love to have you in the office occasionally, but no relocation necessary.
Benefits
- 401k, Health, Vision and Dental insurance packages
- Short term disability insurance
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Discounted Wellhub Membership
- Access to 3 Mental Health Applications
- One Medical Membership
- 8 Company-Paid for Therapy Sessions
- Free access to upskill through our Global Experiential Programs
- Excellent Birthing and Bonding Leave policies
- Sleep coach for post-partum and infant coaching
- Student and Partner focused half days every First Friday of the month
- Summer Fridays - half day on Friday during the summer months
- Extremely talented and intelligent co-workers
- A massive impact on universities and the lives of others, every single day
