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Art of Problem Solving

VP of Marketing

🇺🇸 San Diego, CA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $240K - $275K

💻 Marketing

🗓️ March 23rd, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Art of Problem Solving is hiring a VP of Marketing. The role involves building and leading a marketing department to enhance the company's brand to a national level, developing a unified identity for their offerings, and crafting compelling marketing strategies to reach and engage more students. The VP will also be responsible for managing a team, contributing to company strategy, and promoting the transformative value of problem-solving. 

Highlights 
  • Lead a brand refresh project to build an iconic educational brand
  • Develop major functions including brand strategy and communications
  • Recruit, manage, and mentor a marketing team
  • Contribute to company strategy as part of the executive team
  • Compensation: $240k - $275k plus performance bonus and stock options
  • Competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision plans, and 401k with company match
  • Relocation assistance available for non-San Diego residents

VP of Marketing Full Description

At AoPS, we are world leaders in teaching advanced mathematics. We train many of the most elite mathematicians in the world, including all members of the US International Math Olympiad team. Despite this impact, AoPS remains relatively unknown to the broader public.
We seek a VP of Marketing who can translate our unique approach to mathematics for a wider audience. This leader will build and lead a marketing department that communicates the value of developing problem-solving skills, elevates our brand to national prominence, and reaches more students across the country.
The VP of Marketing will be:
  • Helping lead a major brand refresh project to build an iconic, nationally renowned educational brand
  • Building out major functions including brand strategy, social media, field marketing, and communications
  • Developing a unified identity and messaging across our full spectrum of offerings: self-serve software, online courses, textbooks, and in-person after-school learning centers
  • Recruiting, managing, and mentoring a team of great marketing talent
  • Contributing to company strategy as a member of the core executive team
  • Crafting messages that promote the joy of solving difficult problems and the transformative positive effect that hard work and productive struggle can have on students
  • Using ads, emails, direct mail, flyers, and other tools to identify and market to students and parents who would thrive with our approach
  • Creating pathways for our problem-solving community and our many accomplished alumni to become brand advocates
You might be a good fit for this position if...
  • You have demonstrated exceptional taste and craft in building a respected brand
  • You can translate complex concepts into compelling stories without losing their essence
  • You have built rigorous models for tracking metrics and outcomes of performance marketing approaches
  • You've built brands that matter deeply to specific communities rather than vaguely to everyone
  • You're curious about mathematics and eager to learn what makes it fascinating to others
  • You want to help more students discover the joy of genuine achievement in challenging subjects
Perks and Benefits:
This is a full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The base salary for this role is 240k - 275k. Compensation includes a performance-based bonus and stock options.
Some benefits of the position include:
  • Impact: The opportunity to significantly expand our reach and help more students discover the joy of mathematical problem-solving
  • Culture: Work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners who strive to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation
  • Benefits: Competitive compensation package including medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Future Planning: 401K with company match
  • Ease of Transition: This can be your era of sunshine, palm trees, and beaches. Relocation assistance is available if currently located outside of San Diego.
Background Check:
Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.
About AoPS:
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.
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