School Operations Manager

Zūm•Rockford, IL

1d•$75,000 - $950,000

About The Position

ZÅ«m is a rapidly expanding Series E startup backed by industry leaders Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Spark Capital, and GIC, with a bold mission to transform the stagnant school transportation industry. Operating in over 15 states across the United Statesâwith flagship hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattleâwe are actively extending our reach to the East Coast and Midwest regions. As a technology-driven company, we deploy cutting-edge solutions to manage and operate school district transportation systems while also launching our own charter platform and developing proprietary SaaS offerings. Additionally, we are spearheading a nationwide initiative to electrify school transportation fleets, simultaneously supporting local utilities by feeding much-needed energy back into the grid. We have been recognized as CNBC 50 disruptor, Financial Times 500 fastest growing companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas. ZÅ«m is looking for an enthusiastic School Operations Manager to join our growing Operations team. This role will own all operational areas of the account. This starts from onboarding accounts after Sales handover. The SOM will responsible for overseeing all operations related to the account. This includes day-to-day tasks such as supporting daily client requests, evaluating routes to see where efficiencies can be improved, scheduling pickup/drop offs in the Zum Internal Dashboard, up to coordinating between different teams, including leadership to make sure all necessary information is accurate. The primary goal for this role is to find inefficiencies and work surgically with cross-teams such as Supply & Pricing, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Yard Team to improve day-to-day protocols, operations, and technologies. There will be 25% travel requirement with this position. The School Operations Manager will train onsite at one of our school bus yards for two (2) weeks. Ongoing expectations include 10â20% local travel to visit assigned yards.

Requirements

B2B Account Management and / or Customer Success experience required
Google Suite, Excel and Sheets proficiency required
Prior experience at managing / migrating large sets of data required
Excellent organizational and communication skills required
Prior experience managing multi-million dollar account preferred
2-3 years working in a startup environment preferred
Experience with Salesforce, Zendesk, or related ticketing systems preferred
Ability to create reports and presentations from scratch preferred
Comfortable working with incomplete data or uncertainties
Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and pivot to a task on a moment's notice (we deal with student's safety, not holiday packets, our incidents need urgent attention)
Demonstrated ability to work within a team, willing to do work beyond the scope above to get the job done, learn about the industry, and provide exceptional service to our schools, parents, and most importantly students
Availability to travel and stay in California for a three-week training

Responsibilities

As a School Operations Manager you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day relationship and serve as the main point of contact between schools/districts and Zum.
Ensuring student data and campus schedules are accurate and up to date.
On-boarding and maintaining school accounts, this includes monitoring and reporting KPIs weekly and quarterly
Coordinate the flow of information between the Sales, Supply, Engineering, and Customer Success team. You will be Zum's source of truth for your accounts.
Manage Salesforce case queue to ensure any escalation and key requests that cannot be handled by our support staff is completed in a timely manner.
Continue to identify areas of improvements, be that processes, safety protocols, dashboard/technology features, and big-picture operational planning for expansion.