Academic Success Specialist

TLDR

Play a key role in providing personalized product consultation for parents, ensuring they choose the best learning options tailored to their children's needs and interests.

As the Academic Success Specialist, you will play a key role in providing parents with product consultation and course advising for AoPS online products (Online, BA, and VC). In this role, you will ensure that new and returning parents' questions and concerns are addressed and they are assisted in identifying the best learning options for their children based on individual needs and interests.

The Academic Success Specialist will:

  • Respond promptly to customer course/curriculum/textbook inquiries, ensuring customer satisfaction, through multiple channels including email and phone
  • Provide consultation services to prospective customers (parents) and help them choose the best course or product either initially or as a switch
  • Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of all AoPS products (Online, BA, and VC)
  • Work proactively with school staff, instructional coaches, students, and their parents to resolve classroom coursework, attendance, misbehavior and academic integrity issues
  • Acknowledge, resolve, and document customer complaints and feedback
  • Process parent/student documentation requests in partnership with instructors and school staff/instructional coaches
  • Communicate needed updates to the public knowledge base or internal policies/procedures to Knowledge Management
  • Interact with multiple departments within the company, as needed, to resolve a customer request, such as the Online Instruction, Curriculum, Warehouse, and Finance teams
  • Work occasional weekend shifts, as needed, to support our student and parent community

The ideal candidate has:

  • Comfort with and skill handling live customer calls
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to establish rapport with parents and empathize with their concerns
  • Strong understanding of K-12 curriculum and student needs
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Customer service and/or sales experience (preferred)
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
  • Passion for education and commitment to student success
  • The ability to quickly adapt to new technologies

Why Join AoPS:

This is a hybrid, full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA, with a Thursday through Monday schedule (weekend availability required). The full salary range for this position is 62k-72k. Here are some things you can look forward to:

  • Impact: Help shape the academic journeys of students nationwide by connecting families with the right courses and resources to unlock their child's full potential in math and beyond
  • Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling
  • Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
  • Future Planning: 401(k) with company match
  • Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
  • Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)

Background Check:

Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

Work Authorization:

Please note that in order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.

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.

Art of Problem Solving builds a comprehensive educational platform that focuses on advanced K–12 curriculum in math, science, and language arts. Targeting students from grades 1-12, AoPS Academy combines engaging online instruction with local in-person classes to foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills. What sets us apart is our dedication to nurturing the next generation of exceptional problem solvers with a focus on fostering deep understanding and enthusiasm for learning.

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$62,000 – $72,000 per year
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