Opportunity

The StartX Virtual Program Logistics position represents the opportunity to work with a world-class team of designers, project managers, and data analysts who together construct StartX's offerings and who aim to be the world’s preeminent provider of virtual experiential entrepreneurship education. Combine your project management and virtual event skills with your passion for empowering the Stanford community to solve real-world problems, and create opportunities for optimal collaboration, training, and development of 1300+ of Stanford's best entrepreneurs across 650+ companies. The main objectives for this role include:

• Leveraging and refining your project management skills in order to constantly improve StartX's virtual event and system capabilities as measured by high-quality output from you and the Programs team.
• Executing high quality virtual events, mentorship and access to resources in order to move the needle for our StartX companies
• Taking an evidence-first and measurement-driven attitude toward optimizing for lasting impact over short term results, and reflecting this attitude in how we implement systems, prioritize our time, and interact with other projects across StartX.
• Contributing to a team culture centered around transparency, feedback, accountability, and personal growth, and one that relies on high-quality process to achieve results.

Responsibilities

Virtual Program Management

• Maximize the outcomes of virtual projects impacting our founders through effective planning, preparation, communication, schedule management, goal setting, forecasting, and contingency planning.
• Ensure accountability for high-quality outcomes delivered ahead of deadlines
• Proactively facilitate alignment of StartX's core values and organizational objectives with our customers' greatest needs to guide decision-making and execution.
• Ensure the delivery of lasting reusable work across StartX's Programs and minimize the frequency of one-off or one-time results.
• Drive virtual event logistics for all virtual events, ensuring a positive experience for participants
• Meet regularly with founders who are onboarding to the community to ensure they are meeting their Learning Goals
• Understand the reasons why certain metrics are indicators of StartX's long-term success, and championing a metrics-driven approach toward decision-making

A Day in the Life

• Review participant feedback from a recent virtual event and document learnings for future events

• Assign mentors to new community members based on mentor strengths and founder learning goals

• Meet with newly admitted start-up founders to review upcoming key dates and to deeply understand their learning goals

• As Project Coordinator for projects of your own, pre-schedule emails to event participants

• Meet with our software engineers to prioritize tech automation projects

Role Metrics - no surprise here!

• Weekly: Response time to participant emails

• Monthly: Participant response to whether StartX "moves the needle" for their company

• Quarterly: Founder Satisfaction Feedback

Qualifications

• Previous experience managing complex virtual projects to clear, measurable outcomes

• An understanding of and ability to leverage project management best practices in order to meet program outcomes

• An ability and willingness to hold others accountable for meeting expectations and role metrics

Characteristics

Manages details while never losing sight of the big picture strategy

• Passionate about executing on virtual events and systems

• Demonstrates the capacity for data-driven strategic planning and hands-on tactical implementation

• Passionate about both the StartX Mission and entrepreneurship in general

• Self-starter who thrives in an ambiguous but collaborative work environment

• Excellent internal and client-facing communication capabilities

• Team player who earnestly gives and receives feedback

• Passionate about Project Management & Team Design (e.g. a big fan of books such as Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun, The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld, Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury and Patton, etc.)

• Committed to developing efficient and replicable systems and solutions

• Operates with a customer service orientation

We are deeply committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness.

StartX knows that diversity, equity and inclusion create innovation. We want to actively build a culture and community that embraces and values teammates and founders of all backgrounds and experiences. We highly encourage people of color and women to apply. Help us make change in the tech industry!

Benefits & Perks

• Unlimited PTO (that we actually use!)

• Team-wide breaks, inlcuding one week at Thanksgiving and two weeks at the end of the year

• Paid Parental Leave

• Career Development for one full day per week after spending 2 years in a role - use the day however you'd like for focused career development

• Opportunity to join StartX founders in ongoing and one-time learning experiences

Compensation

Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.