Waitlist: Mentor - Strategy and Insights for Data-Driven Executives (Part-time/Remote)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Contract (Mentor Role)
• Salary: Honorarium (Minimum 1 hour/week commitment)

Springboard is seeking passionate and experienced mentors to join our Strategy and Insights for Data-Driven Executives workshop program. This program provides transformative online education in data science, UI/UX design, machine learning, and coding. We are looking for mentors from top organizations (e.g., McKinsey, Bain, Capital One, Lyft, Square) to guide students through a project-based curriculum and provide career advice. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to Springboard's mission of bridging the skills gap and helping learners transition into their dream jobs.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience as an executive or extensive experience working with executives in a strategic capacity.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to think about problems in a business context and use data to back up claims.
• Curriculum Proficiency: Proficiency in the topics covered in the curriculum, including data analysis, strategic planning, effective communication and presentation, visualization, storytelling and storylining.
• Commitment: Ability to dedicate a minimum of 1 hour per week to mentor students.

Responsibilities

• Provide weekly 30-minute video calls to students to discuss questions, project work, and career advice.
• Collaborate with students on a group project throughout the 8-week course.
• Engage in a weekly engagement session with an engagement manager to review group project progress.
• Serve as a resource for students on data-driven strategy development, identifying trends, opportunities, and risks.
• Craft data-driven recommendations for executives and create compelling narratives.

Application Instructions

Interested individuals should email mentorrecruiting@springboard.com with a brief introduction outlining their experience and qualifications.

Company Information

At Springboard:

We’re on a mission to bridge the world’s skills gap, offering transformative online education in data science, UI/UX design, machine learning, and coding. Our courses may be tech-enabled, but we're ultimately human-centric: each student taps into a vast community throughout their time with us, engaging with fellow students, industry-expert mentors, student advisors, and career coaches, the goal of which is to successfully transition students into their dream job. Through this hybrid approach, we’ve helped thousands of learners revamp their careers and, by extension, their lives, with hundreds of top-notch job offers received every year and a near-perfect placement rate for our program graduates.

The Program (course):

• Completely online
• 8-week course in which students complete a group project
• Students are working professionals who have experience being senior leads and/or executives
• Students learn about data-driven opportunities and risks, strategy development, effective communication, storytelling and storylining
• Students go through the curriculum on their own
• Students will participate in a weekly engagement session with an engagement manager to go over their collaborative group project