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National Math Stars is hiring a Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars. The role involves leading community-building efforts and advising families in the advanced math ecosystem, including planning virtual and in-person events, managing parent forums, and supporting families through guidance and reengagement.

Highlights

Lead community-building efforts for the Pathfinder Stars program including virtual events, in-person gatherings, and online forums.
Advise families on advanced math courses, STEM enrichment opportunities, and program requirements.
Manage family communications through forums and ticketing systems, and reengage at-risk families.
Develop scalable playbooks and tools for community events and family advising.
Update family knowledge bases, contribute to newsletters, and suggest process improvements.
Familiarity with advanced math and STEM enrichment ecosystems preferred; experience with gifted math students and family support valued.
Requires strong organizational, community-building, and interpersonal skills; ability to manage details and scale warm, personalized engagement.
Full-time position offering a $120K salary with benefits including fully paid health, vision, and dental coverage, 401K contributions, work-from-home stipend, and generous paid time off.
Position reports to the Head of Pathfinder Stars and includes 20-30% travel for meetings and events.
National Math Stars serves mathematically gifted students through programs supporting long-term STEM advancement across multiple states.

Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars Full Description

Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars

United States - Remote (within location)
Full-Time
Pathfinder
$120k / year

Role: Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars

Reports to: Head of Pathfinder Stars

Salary: $120K

Status: Full-time

Location: Remote, U.S.-based (20-30% travel)

Who We Are:

National Math Stars ensures mathematically extraordinary students from all communities have the resources they need to reach the frontiers of math and science.

Through our Awards Program, we collaborate with schools and districts to identify and recognize their highest-achieving 2% of 2nd- and 3rd-grade math students. Those students are invited to a competitive admissions process, which aims to select the top talent from all communities. (You could roughly think of this as “the best young mathematician in every ZIP code,” if the US didn’t have quite so many ZIP codes!)

We admit those top students to our Stars Programs and work with them (and their families) over the course of a decade to support their journeys to the frontiers of STEM. All Stars receive access to advanced math opportunities, family guidance, and community gatherings. Within the Stars Program, we have two tracks: (1) our fully-funded Voyager Stars program, targeted at families with significant unmet need for guidance and financial support, and (2) our Pathfinder Stars program, which provides lighter-touch advising and access to partial funding for STEM opportunities. We currently serve over 400 Stars across seven states and are rapidly expanding our reach.

Role Overview:

Pathfinder Stars is a new program that we are piloting in the 2025-26 school year. The Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars will play a key role in the success of this pilot. Reporting to the Head of Pathfinder Stars, the Director of Math Community will support our Pathfinder families and shape how they connect as a community.

The Director of Math Community will both lead our community-building efforts and serve as a hands-on advisor to families navigating the advanced math ecosystem, STEM enrichment opportunities, and key program requirements. This role will involve a mix of executing on established playbooks and writing new ones. Community leadership responsibilities include planning and delivering a calendar of exciting virtual events, recruiting and working with local parent leads to facilitate in-person gatherings, and initiating/moderating valuable conversations in parent forums. Direct support responsibilities include responding to family questions in forums and our ticketing system, proactively recommending course and enrichment opportunities, re-engaging at-risk families, and driving completion of required activities (surveys, course placements, etc.).

This is a remote position with estimated 20-30% travel for team meetings, in-person events, and conferences.

Key Responsibilities:

The Director of Math Community’s key responsibilities in their first year include:

1. Build the Pathfinder community

Plan and deliver a thoughtful calendar of engaging virtual events, including both informational webinars (e.g., summer camps, STEM competitions) and participatory community-building activities (e.g., math jams, chess tournaments)
Recruit local parent leads and support them in arranging in-person gatherings, both STEM-focused (e.g., museum visits, contest sites) and social (e.g., ice cream, games)
Create repeatable playbooks / event-in-a-box materials for both virtual and in-person events, to facilitate delivery at larger scale
Help our parent forums become a vibrant and valuable community, via discussion prompts, active moderation, clear organization of threads/resources, and shared norms
If helpful, recruit and manage parent volunteer forum moderators
Define and iterate on the standard for an excellent virtual community experience, ensuring our touchpoints remain warm, personal, and well-organized as we scale

2. Support and advise Pathfinder families

Triage and address (or escalate) family questions in forums and in our ticketing system, determining the right way to address them (e.g., text response vs. meeting with family) and keeping families updated through issue resolution
Proactively recommend math courses to families when they near completion of current courses, following and expanding the existing course placement playbook
Proactively recommend enrichment opportunities and summer camps that match a given Stars’ level and interests, following and expanding the existing enrichment playbook
Reach out to at-risk/disengaged families to gather feedback and prompt reengagement
Track and drive families’ completion of required tasks (e.g., surveys, course signups)
Keep family data updated; as needed, instruct and QA the work of contractors who support with data cleaning and organization
Translate Pathfinder’s advising vision into consistent, scalable practices by developing and refining playbooks, tools, and norms in partnership with the Head of Pathfinder

3. Support Head of Pathfinder with overall program delivery

Ensure our family knowledge base (FAQs, guidance docs) stays up-to-date
Contribute content to regular all-Pathfinder newsletters
Synthesize and share frequent family advising areas, concerns, and/or feedback
Suggest process and infrastructure improvements

Skills and Experience:

We envision the right candidate for this role is familiar with the advanced math ecosystem and has past experience building mathematical communities. However, we are open to other backgrounds.

You might be a good fit if you are:

Excited about supporting profoundly gifted young mathematicians, and experienced with the unique needs of these students and their families
Someone who genuinely enjoys working with kids and families—warm, patient, and able to build rapport quickly with both parents and Stars
Skilled at helping families navigate new territory. You are good at listening closely, making complex information feel manageable, and adapting your approach to meet different families’ needs and styles
Well-versed in the ecosystem of advanced math and STEM enrichment opportunities
Skilled at building active and supportive parent communities, both virtually and in person
An organized operator who keeps track of many details and follows through reliably and proactively
Energized by early-stage building. You can take a messy or early idea, turn it into something concrete, and refine it as you learn.
A flexible thinker who can zoom in and out. You pay close attention to the immediate family experience while also considering how actions scale. You’re excited by the challenge of retaining warmth, personalization, and clarity as Pathfinder grows!

We know that many strong candidates may not check all of these boxes. If the role seems like a good match for your personal mission and experience, we encourage you to apply even if you meet only some of these criteria.

We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

All full-time roles at National Math Stars include a competitive benefits package:

Fully paid health, vision, and dental coverage for employees, plus partially paid coverage for dependents
401K plan with automatic company contributions
Work-from-home stipend for purchase of a laptop and/or home office supplies
Generous paid time off, including parental leave
Free pie every Pi Day

Original Job Description

Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars

United States - Remote (within location)
Full-Time
Pathfinder
$120k / year

Role: Director of Math Community, Pathfinder Stars

Reports to: Head of Pathfinder Stars

Salary: $120K

Status: Full-time

Location: Remote, U.S.-based (20-30% travel)

Who We Are:

National Math Stars ensures mathematically extraordinary students from all communities have the resources they need to reach the frontiers of math and science.

Role Overview:

This is a remote position with estimated 20-30% travel for team meetings, in-person events, and conferences.

Key Responsibilities:

The Director of Math Community’s key responsibilities in their first year include:

1. Build the Pathfinder community

Plan and deliver a thoughtful calendar of engaging virtual events, including both informational webinars (e.g., summer camps, STEM competitions) and participatory community-building activities (e.g., math jams, chess tournaments)
Recruit local parent leads and support them in arranging in-person gatherings, both STEM-focused (e.g., museum visits, contest sites) and social (e.g., ice cream, games)
Create repeatable playbooks / event-in-a-box materials for both virtual and in-person events, to facilitate delivery at larger scale
Help our parent forums become a vibrant and valuable community, via discussion prompts, active moderation, clear organization of threads/resources, and shared norms
If helpful, recruit and manage parent volunteer forum moderators
Define and iterate on the standard for an excellent virtual community experience, ensuring our touchpoints remain warm, personal, and well-organized as we scale

2. Support and advise Pathfinder families

Triage and address (or escalate) family questions in forums and in our ticketing system, determining the right way to address them (e.g., text response vs. meeting with family) and keeping families updated through issue resolution
Proactively recommend math courses to families when they near completion of current courses, following and expanding the existing course placement playbook
Proactively recommend enrichment opportunities and summer camps that match a given Stars’ level and interests, following and expanding the existing enrichment playbook
Reach out to at-risk/disengaged families to gather feedback and prompt reengagement
Track and drive families’ completion of required tasks (e.g., surveys, course signups)
Keep family data updated; as needed, instruct and QA the work of contractors who support with data cleaning and organization
Translate Pathfinder’s advising vision into consistent, scalable practices by developing and refining playbooks, tools, and norms in partnership with the Head of Pathfinder

3. Support Head of Pathfinder with overall program delivery

Ensure our family knowledge base (FAQs, guidance docs) stays up-to-date
Contribute content to regular all-Pathfinder newsletters
Synthesize and share frequent family advising areas, concerns, and/or feedback
Suggest process and infrastructure improvements

Skills and Experience:

We envision the right candidate for this role is familiar with the advanced math ecosystem and has past experience building mathematical communities. However, we are open to other backgrounds.

You might be a good fit if you are:

Excited about supporting profoundly gifted young mathematicians, and experienced with the unique needs of these students and their families
Someone who genuinely enjoys working with kids and families—warm, patient, and able to build rapport quickly with both parents and Stars
Skilled at helping families navigate new territory. You are good at listening closely, making complex information feel manageable, and adapting your approach to meet different families’ needs and styles
Well-versed in the ecosystem of advanced math and STEM enrichment opportunities
Skilled at building active and supportive parent communities, both virtually and in person
An organized operator who keeps track of many details and follows through reliably and proactively
Energized by early-stage building. You can take a messy or early idea, turn it into something concrete, and refine it as you learn.
A flexible thinker who can zoom in and out. You pay close attention to the immediate family experience while also considering how actions scale. You’re excited by the challenge of retaining warmth, personalization, and clarity as Pathfinder grows!

All full-time roles at National Math Stars include a competitive benefits package:

Fully paid health, vision, and dental coverage for employees, plus partially paid coverage for dependents
401K plan with automatic company contributions
Work-from-home stipend for purchase of a laptop and/or home office supplies
Generous paid time off, including parental leave
Free pie every Pi Day

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