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  • Company

    italki​

  • Location

    Shanghai Shanghai, China​

  • Job Type

    Full Time

  • Salary Range

    20,000-30,000 RMB

  • Number to Recruit

    1

  • Job Reference Code

    J00027

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Teacher Success Program Manager

Shanghai Shanghai, China

About Company:

italki is a global language learning community that connects students and teachers for 1-on-1 online language lessons. At italki, we believe that human interaction and cultural sharing are the best way to become fluent in a foreign language. With over 5 million students and 10,000 high-quality teachers teaching more than 130 languages, italki helps everyone with their personal journey to fluency.


Job Profile:

italki is looking for an experienced leader to grow and implement the strategic vision for italki’s most important resource - our italki Teachers.

As the manager of the teacher success team, you will manage the Teacher Team to champion and drive programs to ensure that teachers have the best possible experience on italki. The ideal candidate will need to be both strategic and tactical to continually develop and improve all teacher-related programs, policies and processes during the italki teacher lifecycle from recruitment, onboarding, training and development, communications, and quality control. The candidate should have a background in offline or online language acquisition pedagogy and lead italki’s academic and research efforts to change the way the world learns a foreign language.

This is a management position that will work closely with our product, marketing, and regional teams to ensure italki Teachers can be utilized as a shared resource. The ideal candidate should be exceptional team players, who have collaborated with team members from diverse backgrounds and at all levels. Reporting to the director of service operations, working with senior management team to set the vision, direction and goals for italki Teachers


Job Details:

Responsibilities:

1. Follow company strategies, roadmap and execution for global teacher resources on italki marketplace.
2. Define, monitor and analyze metrics that help to measure the success of Teachers on italki
3. Lead and manage the ongoing professional development of the teacher success team
4. Lead online language acquisition pedagogy research and ensure these insights are shared across relevant stakeholders in the company
5. Represent Teachers in internal cross-functional and external settings, make sound decisions on project scoping, content design, and team allocation
6. Identify staffing needs on the teacher success team


Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Linguistic, or a related field
2. 5+ years of full time working experience in business management or product management role in education technology, marketplace,
e-commerce, or related industry
3. Background in academic learning pedagogy or a deep understanding of online education learning frameworks, familiarity with the tools and platforms
4. Experienced people manager with strong track record of leading teams and developing individuals
5. Ability and experience working in cross-functional teams and a track record of taking initiative in ambiguous and dynamic environments
6. Proven ability to forge strong relationships, lead cross-functional teams and handle stakeholder management
7. Incredible perseverance and drive, manifested in a strong work ethic and a willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever needs to be done
8. Excellence in presentation, spoken and written skills in Mandarin and English

Plus
1. Passion for languages with language skills in addition to required Mandarin and English
​2. Experience in high tech, software development, education technology industries
3. ​Experience in growing and scaling company growth or start up team experience
​4. Experience in companies with global / regional presence with multiple offices across different
5. Prior academic, language teaching experience or teacher management experience


Benefit:

Reasons to Join
We are a global business company!
International workspace.
Central, downtown location
Great medical insurance
15 paid personal days per year
Yearly team travel
Travel Benefit
Technology Benefit
Study Benefit
Fitness Benefit
Language learning credits every month
Opportunities for career advancement

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