About Empowered

A unique combination of passionate leaders and experts has come together to merge Silicon Valley’s best-in-class technology, Hollywood’s marketing assets and the world-renowned academic curriculum of UCLA Extension. The result is a new concept and company called Empowered.

The program will offer students UCLA Extension certificates and career counseling designed specifically for those transitioning to new careers or seeking to remain competitive in today’s job market.  With a focus on practical, work-related knowledge, the fully online courses will allow students to complete certificate programs in just one year with far more robust interaction than many modern day classrooms.

Empowered’s headquarters is located in Los Gatos, CA with a second location in Saint Louis Park, MN, supporting the operations team and functions.
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Job Description:

• Help develop, own, and articulate parts of the product roadmap
• Prioritize a constant stream of customer feedback, sales requests, and team ideas to ensure we’re always building the right things at the right time
• Work with design, engineering, marketing and sales to translate customer requests to useful features, flesh them out, and continually improve them
• Manage and track projects within the company
• Provide UX wire-framing wherever and whenever necessary to support development of new features

Requirements:

• Have a BS or MS in Computer Science, and experience in software development
• 5+ years of product management experience in consumer or enterprise web
• Be an expert in agile methodologies and scrum
• Love talking to customers, getting to know them, understanding them, advocating for them, and helping them succeed
• Love hanging out with engineers and building things
• Be an outstanding writer, public speaker, presenter, communicator, and persuader
• Be able to effectively interact and communicate with all levels of management and withusers at all levels of technical/analytical expertise
• Have a “self-starter” attitude and the ability to make decisions independently
• Thrive in a high-energy environment where driving simultaneous tactical and strategic activities is expected

The Vice President, Consumer Marketing is a key revenue and profit driver for Empowered, with primary responsibility for filling the top of the funnel (driving new customer acquisitions), helping drive conversion from prospect to student, and helping drive graduation success. This person will leverage a wide variety of offline and online Marketing vehicles, including proven-effective consumer advertising and media including e-mail Marketing, SEO/SEM, Affiliate/Aggregator and display web marketing, etc. This work will require close collaboration with multiple functions inside the company, including Corporate Communications, Brand Marketing, Academic Affairs, Product, Prospect/Customer Care, and the Executive team, as well as, close collaboration and partnership with external agencies and consulting partners.

At a high level, this position will drive (or co-drive) activities around Acquisition, Lifecycle Marketing and Business Intelligence. This person will own the responsibility of attracting prospects, helping turn them into students, and helping support them through graduation – along with driving the market research, data gathering and analysis needed to enable us to make smart business decisions along the way.
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Job Summary:

The Business Intelligence Marketing Manager serves two related roles – the analytical support function for the organization as well as the insights management. The primary responsibility is to manage all data and research analytics projects in themarketing department that have inter-departmental dependencies or are operations based. This would include managing internal and external data sources, modeling, pricing elasticity structures, aiding in the budgeting and forecasting process as well as providing analysis on marketing performance as well as being the lead person for all primary research projects.
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Job Summary:

The Lifecycle Marketing Manager will be responsible for leading the strategy and direct management of engagement, monetizing and retention of users across Email, traditional mail, Web Application, House Ads and Website Marketing, with a primary focus on top line conversion, AOV, engagement over academic phase and success rates.
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Job Summary:

ECI is a startup in Los Gatos, CA and recently landed $15M in Series A Financing. We have a great product, great vision, and the funding to turn it into reality; all that is missing is you!

We’re looking for a rockstar developer who doesn’t shy away from extra responsibility and is ready to make major contributions on day 1. You will be on the cutting edge of online education and career management, building the applications that allow ECI’s customers to learn and collaborate anywhere.

Passion, excitement, and the drive to create amazing products are all musts; if you’ve ever dreamed of winning an Apple Design Award, you’ll fit right in. You should know Objective-C and the iOS SDK cold and at the same time be ready to work on and learn new platforms as they emerge. Any experience with other platforms, especially web development or development for OS X, is a big plus.

Get in on the ground floor of an exciting new startup; make a huge immediate impact; and shape the design and future of the product and the engineering team.
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