Customer & Product Success (3-month Internship)

Emote Education
Emote Education

Product, Customer Service · Intern

Oakland, CA, USA

Posted 6+ months ago
We are an early EdTech startup at the nexus of Mental Health, Communication, and Education. Today, education is reeling from an inability to catch addressable student needs before they escalate to costly outcomes like truancy, academic disengagement, and self-harm. In fact, 70% of students have unmet mental health needs. Emote uses school-wide communication to predict who needs support and when in real-time. Since finishing Y Combinator / ImagineK12, we’ve seen exciting growth and overwhelming demand. As a result, we need short-term customer support and can offer an incredible growth opportunity for the right candidate. About the RoleGet experience in a fast-moving startup, develop expertise in EdTech, build connections in Silicon Valley, and work with the entire founding team on a variety of projects. The Critical Need: help support customer success. The Growth Opportunity: help shape the product, manage a full-stack dev team, and/or build our customer strategy. As the Customer & Product Success Lead, you are Emote’s ambassador and owner of the customer experience. You are most successful when your schools are successful in implementing Emote. Successful interns will have priority for a full-time position when we begin hiring in July. Critical ResponsibilitiesTake the lead in setting up new schools:- Listen to the specific needs of each school- Turn unstructured school data into structured data to import into Emote’s database- Customize Emote so it fits a school’s needs Support the long-term success of schools:- Check in periodically with schools- Be the first responder to resolve issues when users have questions- Proactively identify issues- Advocate for educators in product prioritization meetings- Work with our engineers to diagnose tough problems Growth OpportunityCustomer success strategy:- Create support material for frequently asked questions- Iteratively improve school set-up process with every new school- Leverage automation (Zapier, Intercom, Mailchimp, etc.) to scale your impact Product management:- Support the full design process: define, research, ideate, prototype, choose, implement, and learn- Guide & support a full-stack engineering team- Work with our engineers and technical advisors (from FB and Netflix!) to develop our first data pipeline for setting up a school About YouWhat you’ll bring to EmoteNeed to have:- Empathetic to the needs and challenges of educators- A natural communicator and relationship builder- Able to manipulate data (organize unstructured school data into CSV; intermediate Excel is fine)- Organized and thorough; able to support multiple schools and manage processes- Independent and fast learner who takes initiative Great to have:- Strong analytical skills to distill insight from data- Interest in product management and/or design- Experience working in K-12 education Summary- Position: Customer success- Compensation: Unpaid- Term: 3 months- Location: Oakland, CA How to applyUpload a resume and cover letter describing your interest in joining our team and your professional qualifications for the position. Questions: Julian Golder at Julian@emotenow.com. Emote is strongly committed to hiring a multicultural staff that reflects the diversity of our student body. Reasonable accommodations will be made in accordance with the ADA.