Location
This is a hybrid role with significant on-site responsibilities at DLC’s San Francisco office and partner schools throughout the Bay Area, along with substantial remote work.
Candidates must have access to a car and be comfortable driving regularly to partner school locations throughout the Bay Area. Eligible business mileage will be reimbursed in accordance with applicable law and company policy. Ordinary commuting to and from our San Francisco office is generally not reimbursed.
We strongly prefer candidates who live in or near San Francisco and can readily provide on-site support at our office and school locations.
Why Join Us?
Descartes Learning Club is a mission-driven education organization committed to providing children with an exceptional math learning experience.
We offer small-group classes—typically no more than six students—so every child receives meaningful individualized attention. Our instructors receive high-quality paid training and ongoing coaching, and our curriculum emphasizes deep conceptual understanding, logic, and problem solving through Beast Academy, Art of Problem Solving, Math Circle–style problems, puzzles, and games rather than rote memorization or repetitive drills.
Families return to DLC year after year because of the quality and consistency of our programs, and we are continuing to expand our partnerships with schools throughout the Bay Area.
This role also offers a unique opportunity to work closely with and receive mentorship from DLC’s Founder & CEO, an experienced executive and entrepreneur. You will gain broad, hands-on experience across operations, school partnerships, business development, marketing, enrollment, and recruiting while helping build a growing education organization from the ground up.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about education and excited to help build a mission-driven education business—someone who enjoys both making things happen day to day and thinking about how to make the organization stronger as it grows.
Responsibilities1. Operations & On-Site Program Support — Primary Responsibility
A significant part of this role is ensuring that DLC’s programs run smoothly across our San Francisco office and growing network of partner schools. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving problems, managing details, interacting with teachers and students, and being physically present where support is needed.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing hands-on, on-site operational support at DLC’s San Francisco office and partner schools throughout the Bay Area.
- Observing instructors, supporting teacher coaching, and helping teachers assess students for appropriate math placement.
- Coordinating logistics with partner schools to ensure programs run smoothly at every location.
- Managing curriculum and supply logistics, including preparing, organizing, transporting, and distributing books, teaching materials, supplies, and instructor resources to partner schools, particularly at the beginning of each term.
- Coordinating and supporting on-campus enrollment events, student assessments, teacher training, and other school-based activities.
- Working closely with school administrators, after-school staff, instructors, and families to ensure smooth program delivery and responsive communication.
- Managing schedules, class logistics, enrollment workflows, and operational checklists across multiple school locations.
- Proactively identifying operational challenges and helping build scalable systems and processes as DLC grows.
- Developing and updating instructor training manuals, operational documentation, and video tutorials.
- Traveling regularly between our San Francisco office and partner schools throughout the Bay Area.
- Teaching DLC math classes as needed to support program operations.
This is a significant, hands-on component of the role and is ideal for someone who is highly organized, resourceful, responsive, and comfortable moving between strategic thinking and detailed execution.
2. Business Development & School Partnerships
You will help DLC expand its partnerships with schools and communities throughout the Bay Area.
Responsibilities include:
- Supporting outreach to prospective schools and community partners.
- Researching and identifying promising new school and community partnerships.
- Preparing partnership materials, proposals, introductory outreach, and follow-up communications.
- Building relationships with school administrators, PTO leaders, families, and education leaders.
- Supporting meetings, presentations, and follow-up with prospective partners.
- Tracking outreach and partnership pipelines and helping refine DLC’s business development playbook.
- Identifying new neighborhoods and communities where DLC could successfully expand.
This part of the role is ideal for someone who enjoys relationship-building, networking, follow-through, and representing an educational mission they believe in.
3. Marketing & Enrollment
You will support DLC’s efforts to build awareness, attract families, and successfully launch and grow programs at new and existing partner schools.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing and coordinating school-specific marketing and enrollment campaigns.
- Preparing flyers, newsletters, email announcements, enrollment forms, and other family-facing materials.
- Coordinating with schools and PTOs to promote DLC programs through their communication channels.
- Supporting family information sessions, virtual Q&As, student assessments, and other enrollment activities.
- Monitoring enrollment and identifying opportunities to increase participation.
- Maintaining clear, polished, and consistent communication with families and school partners.
4. Instructor Recruiting
You will also help build DLC’s pipeline of exceptional part-time math instructors.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing recruiting pipelines through universities, professional networks, job platforms, and community partnerships.
- Managing job postings, candidate sourcing, screening, and interview coordination.
- Conducting outreach to university faculty, academic departments, student organizations, and other recruiting partners.
- Interviewing prospective instructors.
- Providing candidates with warm, clear, and responsive communication throughout the hiring process.
- Tracking recruiting metrics and helping improve funnel performance.
- Representing DLC’s teaching culture, values, and mission to prospective instructors.
Across all four areas, we are looking for someone who is highly proactive, organized, resourceful, relationship-oriented, and willing to take ownership of whatever needs to be done to help a growing education organization operate and expand successfully.
Qualifications
- Passionate about education and mission-driven, with a genuine interest in helping expand access to high-quality learning opportunities and build a growing education organization.
- Math or STEM teaching/tutoring experience, with the ability to teach DLC’s K–8 math enrichment classes as needed and provide hands-on instructional support.
- Experience in operations, recruiting, campus outreach, community engagement, business development, education, or related areas is strongly preferred; however, we also welcome exceptional candidates with less direct experience who demonstrate strong potential, initiative, and transferable skills.
- Entrepreneurial and resourceful, with enthusiasm for building processes and solving problems in a growing organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—warm, clear, polished, and professional.
- Highly organized, with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.
- Comfortable balancing multiple priorities and switching between strategic projects and hands-on execution.
- Relationship-oriented and comfortable working with students, families, instructors, school administrators, and community partners.
- Willing and able to travel regularly throughout the Bay Area; access to a car is required.
- Strong preference for candidates located in or near San Francisco who can readily support operations at our SF office and partner schools throughout the Bay Area.
Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- In a few sentences, please describe your experience and key strengths that best qualify you for this opportunity.
- In a few sentences, please describe why you are interested in this role.
- Do you have experience recruiting educators? If so, please share more details.
- This is a hybrid role with a significant amount of on-site operational work at our San Francisco office and partner schools throughout the SF Bay Area, along with substantial remote work. Candidates must have access to a car and be willing to drive to our office in San Francisco and various Bay Area locations as needed. Mileage will be reimbursed in accordance with applicable law and company policy. Could you please let us know if you live in the Bay Area and, if so, which city you reside in? Additionally, please share whether you are comfortable driving to various Bay Area locations for onsite operational support.
- Do you have experience in business development, sales, marketing or operations? If so, please share more details.
Education:
Experience:
- Tutoring: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in San Francisco, CA 94109
