General Manager, New Program
National Math Stars · Remote (US)
Role: General Manager, New Program
Reports to: CEO
Salary: $150-175K
Status: Full-time
Location: Remote, U.S.-based (10-20% travel)
Who We Are:
National Math Stars ensures mathematically extraordinary students from all communities have the resources they need to reach the frontiers of math and science.
Through our Awards Program, we collaborate with schools and districts to identify and recognize their highest-achieving 2% of 2nd- and 3rd-grade math students. Those students are invited to a competitive admissions process, which aims to select the top talent from all communities. (You could roughly think of this as “the best young mathematician in every ZIP code,” if the US didn’t have quite so many ZIP codes!) We admit those top students (our “Stars”) and work with them (and their families) over the course of a decade to support their journeys to the frontiers of STEM.
We launched National Math Stars with our current support program, which is geared towards high-need families. It provides them with significant scholarships, fully funded courses and camps, individualized guidance, mentoring, and community gatherings to achieve exceptional outcomes. This program currently serves 71 students and is in the process of recruiting a third cohort, of 100 additional Stars, from across six states.
In response to overwhelming demand from families with talented kids and in service of achieving our goal of supporting top talent from all communities, we will be launching a new program. We envision this program will be much larger (with cohorts of thousands, not hundreds) and will admit students from every community (including high-income). The support this program offers will be lighter-touch, lower-cost, and more community-driven, but will still significantly improve participants’ chances of extraordinary achievement in math and science.
Role Overview:
In the 2025-26 school year, in addition to growing our current support program, National Math Stars will pilot a scalable, lower-cost program that can serve a large number of equally talented (but not necessarily high-need) Stars and families. Our General Manager, New Program will be responsible for designing this program, running the pilot, and building out the team and tools to scale it up. Taking our learnings from operating the Stars program so far, they will build with the aim of sustainably supporting ~4,000 new Stars per year, empowering them with the resources, guidance, mentorship, and community to reach the frontiers of math and science.
This is a remote position with estimated 10-20% travel for team meetings and conferences.
Key Responsibilities:
The General Manager, New Program’s key responsibilities in their first year include:
Develop and run a new venture pilot
- Pick a set of scalable supports to pilot as this program offering
- Working with our outreach and admissions team, identify 200-250 candidates to participate in the pilot (and a waitlist for expanding the pilot)
- Directly support all pilot families
- Identify and set up “force multiplier” tools that enable impactful support at this scale
- Experiment with various forms of support (e.g., text-based advising, webinars, newsletters, on-demand calls)
- Experiment with various ways to build community scalably (e.g., online forums, interest clubs, parent-organized meet-ups)
- Set up data tracking systems and feedback mechanisms to ensure we can measure participant progress and satisfaction
- Manage a ~$150K budget (in 2025; more to be allocated in 2026) for tools, software licenses, and direct participant support (e.g., mailings, competition fees, scholarship pool)
- Potentially expand scope of pilot over the course of the year (i.e., admit additional families from the waitlist)
Prepare for future program design and growth
- Identify specific, measurable “north star” metrics for program success, within the categories of engagement/retention and math progress/outcomes
- Through supporting families, identify the most impactful resources and interventions
- Determine the best existing software tools and vendors to support this program
- Determine gaps in off-the-shelf tools and whether/what we need to develop in-house
- Identify feasible advisors-to-families ratio for future growth
- Sketch out team design and long-term costs for future growth
Support other departments and overall strategy
- Stay closely aligned with Head of Programs and Head of Partnerships, gathering and sharing learnings that could impact program delivery, outreach, and/or admissions
- Regularly report on progress to Leadership Team and Board of Directors
- In collaboration with CEO and Leadership Team, advise on pace of growth, target geographies, and other strategic decisions
After the conclusion of the initial pilot in 2025-26, the CEO and General Manager, New Program will work together to re-define the role. If we’ve landed on a proven, scalable support model, this could evolve into a team leadership role over a new National Math Stars department.
Skills and Experience:
We envision the right candidate for this role is likely a past start-up founder, community builder/manager, or product manager. However, we are open to other backgrounds.
We are looking for:
- Excitement for our mission and goals
- Understanding of the needs of highly gifted children and their families
- Entrepreneurial drive to build new programs, processes, and structures from scratch
- Comfort with ambiguity and high level of autonomy
- Experience as a founder or early employee at a start-up (for- or non-profit)
- Experience managing and improving operations through a period of rapid growth (e.g., by identifying and quickly onboarding suitable tools, vendors, contractors)
- Experience conducting user research and designing/improving user experiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to gather and interpret quantitative and qualitative data (including through experimentation), and to use that data to inform decision-making
- Understanding of the advanced math / STEM enrichment space (previous experience with STEM enrichment is a plus but not required; STEM degree a plus but not required)
We know that many strong candidates may not check all of these boxes. If the role seems like a good match for your personal mission and experience, we encourage you to apply even if you meet only some of these criteria.
We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
All full-time roles at National Math Stars include a competitive benefits package:
- Fully paid health, vision, and dental coverage for employees, plus partially paid coverage for dependents
- 401K plan with automatic company contributions
- Work-from-home stipend for purchase of a laptop and/or home office supplies
- Generous paid time off, including parental leave
- Free pie every Pi Day
As we are a non-profit, there is no equity ownership in the company, and thus that is not part of our compensation package.
