Braven, Inc

Job Title: Director of Systems Management

Location: Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC) 

Employment Type: Full-time

Start Date: ASAP

To Apply: Submit your application here. Send any questions to jobs@bebraven.org (applications submitted via email will not be accepted).

About Braven

We believe that the next generation of leaders will emerge from everywhere. We empower promising college students with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.  Learn more about Braven’s impact: 

https://impactreport.bebraven.org/

https://jobsreport.bebraven.org/

Braven was named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2022 by Forbes! We’re proud to be a nonprofit organization that values its employees and has always been committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that mirrors our country.

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 40,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven must build systems that scale and are easy to use.  In that effort, Braven is hiring a Director of Systems Management who will help Braven’s CTO manage critical workstreams. Braven organizes cross-functional technical initiatives into “scrum teams.” Our scrums have been able to overhaul our technology platform, scale Braven’s systems to serve more students, and advance initiatives to become more data-driven. This role will be tasked with leading some of these scrums. The Director of Systems Management will report directly to the CTO.

  

What You’ll Do: Set up and lead scrum teams to execute initiatives requiring substantial engineering and coordination.

1. Lead the scrum team that develops, tests, and launches features for our core platform.
   1. Draft user stories to capture needs of students, volunteers, and staff.
   2. Estimate the amount of effort required to finish each user story
   3. Understand needs within Program Operations and Systems so as to prioritize
   4. Manage the quality assurance process to verify that stories are indeed “done”
   5. Communicate cross functionally so that documentation and training are coordinated with software development
   6. Lead the weekly scrum retrospectives and daily check ins
   7. Groom the backlog to queue up work for each sprint
   8. Provide regular progress updates to organizational leaders
2. Lead additional cross-functional projects as capacity allows.

Qualifications & Skills:

Braven is looking for an organized, proactive, and empathetic project manager. You are bringing experiences and strengths like these:

• 8+ years total experience with 5+ years of relevant experience (education, program management, or technology)
• Previous lateral management experience
• Experience managing projects from conception to completion
• You have a demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion
• You exemplify Braven’s core values
• Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population
• You thrive on building personal relationships across an organization.
• You are goal-driven
• You are a strategic thinker
• You are able to execute
• You believe feedback is a gift
• You are an avid learner

Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work in-person in Chicago, Newark, Atlanta, or NYC
• Can travel for retreats approximately 4 times per year
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be fully vaccinated and have received the Booster vaccination against COVID-19 and provide proof of such by the date of hire. Individuals may claim exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons. Exempted individuals will be subject to weekly testing if they engage in any in-person work activities.   

Compensation and Benefits

The salary for this position, which depends on prior work experience and our assessment of your demonstrated fit for the role, will likely be between $83,000 - $103,700 in Chicago; $78,900 - $98,600 in Atlanta; and $89,600 - $112,000 in Newark and New York City. Braven offers competitive base salaries based on the midpoint of the market among not-for-profit organizations of similar size, with opportunities for salary growth over time. We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process.

Braven also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development. While Braven reserves the right to change benefits at any time, current benefits include: 

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide, week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year 
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium 
• A one month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

Location

When social distancing is not in place, we gather in the office three days a week. Therefore, we require teammates to live within commuting distance of our hubs: Chicago, New York City, Newark, and Atlanta. Each teammate can use two flex days of their choosing per week to work remotely. We believe in the magic, connection, and collaboration that happens when people work together face-to-face and we believe in giving people flexibility to focus, balance personal priorities, and save themselves two commutes per week. 

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

At Braven, we are committed to attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining a diverse team. Braven operates in the context of our American culture, against the backdrop of systemic racism and oppression of marginalized people since our country’s founding. We are committed to assembling leaders at our organization who have emerged from everywhere, with a particular emphasis on those who share the racial and income backgrounds of our Fellows, and creating an inclusive culture that allows all teammates, of all experiences and identities, to thrive.  

Braven is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.  We encourage talented individuals of all backgrounds to apply.