Employer Success Manager

University of Washington Medical Center • Seattle, WA

1d • $69,996 - $79,992

About The Position

The Employer Success Manager joins the UW Career Center @ Engineering (CC@E) and reports to the Director of the UW Career Center @ Engineering. The role builds partnerships with employers and creates programs connecting Engineering students with career-related learning and work opportunities. It leads new initiatives, strengthens employer engagement across the College, and helps employers connect with students and graduates.

The position stewards and grows employer partnerships, developing engagement strategies that extend relationships beyond traditional recruiting into sustained programmatic involvement. It develops and pilots engagement models such as work-integrated learning and project-based experiences, and applies knowledge of employer-university partnerships, early-career hiring, and the evolving world of work to program design and employer-facing representation of UW Engineering.

The Employer Success Manager builds relationships with employer contacts across academic departments, serves as a strategic thought partner, develops partner onboarding and stewardship standards and marketing materials, and collaborates across the UW career ecosystem to integrate engagement platforms, practices, and programs. The role also reports on employer engagement, tracks program effectiveness and partnership outcomes, analyzes labor-market, technology, and employer trends, and supports continuous improvement by sharing findings and practices from peer institutions and industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in employer relations, university-industry partnerships, program management, or a closely related field.
• Experience developing and managing programs or initiatives through the full lifecycle, from design and launch through adoption, iteration, and sustained execution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working across organizational lines to achieve results in a complex organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort representing the office and College in external and cross-institutional settings.

Responsibilities

• Steward and grow a portfolio of employer partnerships, developing strategies that advance relationships beyond traditional recruiting into sustained, programmatic involvement.
• Develop and pilot employer engagement models, including work-integrated learning, project-based experiences, and other meaningful student-employer connections.
• Monitor trends in employer-university partnerships, early-career hiring, and the evolving world of work, applying insights to program design, employer engagement, and representation of UW Engineering at employer-facing events.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with employer contacts across academic departments and serve as a strategic thought partner on employer engagement.
• Develop standards and external marketing materials for onboarding and stewarding employer partners across populations served by CC@E.
• Collaborate across the UW career ecosystem to integrate employer engagement platforms, practices, and programs.
• Develop employer engagement reporting and track program effectiveness, partnership outcomes, and engagement trends.
• Analyze labor-market, technology, and employer trends to inform strategy and anticipate evolving employer needs.
• Support continuous improvement by sharing findings, best practices, and emerging approaches from peer institutions and industry.

Benefits

• The job posting refers applicants to the University of Washington staff benefits webpage for information about benefits; specific benefits are not listed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level