Public Funding Project Lead
Lead cross-functional execution of public-funding initiatives at Outschool, driving efficiency and scaling operations.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 9 hours ago
AI in the day-to-day
Drive and coordinate AI-enabled efficiency — identify and build automations that reduce manual effort.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Public Funding Project Lead at Outschool is responsible for coordinating cross-functional initiatives related to Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), ensuring that projects are delivered on time and align with the needs of families using the platform. This role requires strong project management skills, a deep understanding of the ESA landscape, and the ability to leverage AI for operational efficiency. It is well-suited for someone with a background in EdTech or startups, particularly those who thrive in fast-paced environments and can navigate complex team dynamics.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 10 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Outschool's career page.
- Outschool has 5 other open roles including Software Engineer, Product Manager, Director of Infrastructure Engineering.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Management roles (median ~$175,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Public Funding Project Lead role remote?
- It's hybrid — Outschool expects some on-site time in Remote (U.S. & Canada).
- What's the salary range?
- Outschool lists $165,600–$227,700 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Outschool is hiring for this position in Remote (U.S. & Canada).
- What seniority level is this role?
- Outschool targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Public Funding Project Lead role at Outschool.
From the original posting
The Company:
Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.The Role
Outschool is on a path to become the leading Education Savings Account (ESA) platform in the country. Over the past few years we built the operations and systems that made that growth possible — entering new funding marketplaces, standing up reimbursement, and serving families across a fast-growing set of state programs. As the public-funding program matures from building new systems to running and scaling them, we’re creating this role to be the connective tissue that keeps it all moving — and continually makes it run better and scale.
The Public Funding Project Lead leads cross-functional execution across Customer Experience, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Product — turning strategy into coordinated, on-time delivery for launches, new-program onboarding, and reimbursement expansion. Just as importantly, you’ll be our internal expert on the ESA family: the person who lives and breathes the persona and makes sure everything we ship reflects how these families actually navigate their funding. You’ll also lead our push to use AI to work faster and more efficiently, turning manual processes into scalable automations.
As the program’s work distributes to teams across the company, you’ll be the point person who keeps a multi-team effort aligned, spots risks before they become problems, brings deep ESA expertise to bear on our strategy, and raises the bar on how we execute.
Core Responsibilities:
- Lead cross-functional execution of public-funding and ESA initiatives across CX, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Product — translating strategy into coordinated project plans, clear owners, and on-time delivery.
- Build trusted working relationships with the owners in each function — CX, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Product — well enough to understand their real constraints and broker tradeoffs.
- Act as Outschool’s internal ESA-family expert, bringing the lived persona into product, go-to-market, and support decisions, and pressure-testing our messaging and experience before it reaches families.
- Own the project-management systems and operating cadence for the public-funding program — roadmaps, dependencies, status tracking, and clear decision-making across teams.
- Drive and coordinate AI-enabled efficiency — identify and (with engineering as needed) build automations such as order-fulfillment and invoicing workflows that reduce manual effort and help the program scale.
- Continuously look for ways to improve and scale ESA operations — spotting inefficiencies and bottlenecks, streamlining and automating workflows, and building processes that hold up as volume grows.
- Keep our distributed operating model coordinated: ensure the teams that own individual pieces of public funding stay aligned, and proactively surface and resolve risks.
- Partner with the Partnerships Lead to coordinate the internal execution of partner-driven launches, keeping Product, CX, Legal, and Finance aligned as new partners and programs come online.
Desired Experience & Skills:
- Proven project or program management experience leading cross-functional initiatives to on-time, on-budget delivery.
- A track record of acting as a trusted partner across functions — not just tracking a plan, but building enough credibility with each team that they bring you problems early.
- Comfortable working through disagreement: can surface competing priorities between teams, facilitate toward a decision, and communicate tradeoffs and risks to stakeholders clearly, even without formal authority.
- Strong operational and process orientation, with the ability to turn ambiguous, fast-changing requirements into clear, repeatable workflows.
- A track record of not just running operations but improving them — finding efficiencies and building processes that scale with growth.
- Demonstrated use of AI tools to speed up delivery and improve efficiency.
- Deep understanding of — or the ability to quickly ramp on — the ESA, public-funding, and homeschooling landscape and the families it serves.
Other Considerations:
- Lived experience with ESAs, homeschooling, or education-choice programs
- Previous EdTech or online-marketplace experience
- Previous experience in startups, especially in the hypergrowth phase
Compensation:
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and benefits. Additional details are provided during the interview process.
This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
US Tiers
US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Seattle Metro
US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro
US Tier 3: All other cities and states
US Pay Zones
US Tier 1: $165,600 - $227,700
US Tier 2: $140,760 - $193,545
US Tier 3: $124,200 - $170,775
Benefits & Culture:
- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and retirement plans
- Health: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Wellness: Annual wellness stipend, access to coaching & therapy, and pet wellness plans
- PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies
- Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and an office in San Francisco. Bay Area-based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup and internet to stay connected no matter where you are.
- Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes
- Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs
Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.