Student Life Network is growing and looking for a strong leader to act as the Assistant Director of Yconic. Your job will be to support the team by strategically growing one of Canada’s largest student communities and resources.
Who We Are
Yconic’s powerful resources enable Canadian students to discover their dream school, get advice from real students, and find scholarships to pay for their post-secondary education.
Who You Are
You’re an expert in the student space as well as program management. You want to make post-secondary schools better at finding the right prospective students. You are passionate, self-driven, flexible & adaptable.
Position Overview
We are looking for an Assistant Director to oversee product and program development and ensure a high return on investment. You’ll translate ideas into strategy and features, and follow product and program development from start to finish. To succeed in this role, you should be a perceptive and creative leader and a reliable problem-solver. If you’re also confident and have a knack for knowing what ideas will and won’t work, we’d like to meet you.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and implement product strategies consistent with the company vision
- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products
- Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams
- Produce and review product requirements documents
- Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
- Make creative recommendations to expand the product base and vision
- Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users
- Communicate and maintain trust relationships with shareholders, business partners and authorities
- Oversee the company’s financial performance, investments and other business ventures
- Work with a small and dedicated staff
- Act as the public speaker and public relations representative of the company in ways that strengthen its profile
- Analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth
- Contribution to the tidiness of office space (personal and shared)
- Other duties as assigned
What You Need To Succeed
- Proven experience in a similar role
- Experience in product lifecycle management
- Background in software development and program management is preferred
- Organizational and leadership abilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Creative thinking skills
- 3-5 years experience working with digital marketers, web developers and client services
- Must have a degree or diploma from a recognized 3- to 4-year post-secondary program at a Canadian college or university
- Hands-on project management and client management experience, equivalent to 2-3 years, specifically with the following:
- Understanding client/stakeholder objectives
- Problem-solving and developing business cases
- Coordinating with external clients/stakeholders and internal project teams
- Developing project plans and managing them through to execution
- Meeting and exceeding project goals * Some knowledge, comfort and experience in the following is required:
- Digital marketing campaigns, including email, social media and web
- Presentation skills for small groups
- Solutions sales in the education sector
- Scholarships, bursaries, grants and awards
- Post-secondary school admissions and administration * An ability to predict conflicts (task, relationship and process) before they happen and prepare solutions to prevent, mitigate or resolve them
- An ability to uncover business opportunities from disparate information and turn them into program elements
- Comfortable managing up, down and across a small organization of cross-functional experts to achieve project KPIs
- Proficient with Microsoft Office or equivalent (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- A passion for helping students is a must!
If you’re interested in applying, please send your resume and a cover letter to m[at]squarecrop.com
