Academic Partnerships Solutions Manager

Academic Partnerships Solutions Manager

What We Seek

The Academic Partnerships Solutions Manager ensures that partnership needs are clearly captured, organized, and translated into high-quality, compliant, and compelling pre-sales outputs. This role serves as the operational hub for RFPs, state adoption opportunities, and complex partner inquiries-owning the intake, synthesis, coordination, and submission of pre-sales work.

By combining strong operational judgment with the effective use of AI-enabled tools, this role drives structure, visibility, and consistency across the pre-sales lifecycle. The Pre-Sales Operations Manager ensures that district needs are accurately understood, responses are strategically aligned, and final deliverables reflect Carnegie Learning's quality standards, brand voice, and instructional expertise.

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Support and coordinate structured intake of partnership needs, RFP requirements, and district priorities across teams, translating complex inputs into clear, actionable pre-sales plans
• Coordinate cross-functional contributions from Proposal Writers, Content Specialists, State Adoptions, Sales, and Product teams
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to support drafting, alignment, version control, and quality assurance, while applying professional judgment to ensure accuracy, compliance, and narrative strength
• Coordinate cross-functional input from Proposal Writers, Content Specialists, and the State Adoptions team to deliver high-quality, brand-aligned proposals
• Maintain centralized pre-sales infrastructure, including templates, documentation, tracking systems, and intake processes
• Ensure all partnership opportunities receive timely, accurate, compliant, and professional responses
• Track timelines and deliverables, proactively following up to ensure deadlines are met
• Drive operational efficiency and visibility through standardized processes and centralized intake
• Document best practices and lessons learned to continuously improve RFP and pre-sales execution
• During periods of high demand or time-sensitive opportunity volume, contribute directly to proposal development, including drafting sections, supporting RFP responses, and assisting with detailed alignment work; to ensure continuity, quality, and on-time delivery.

What Should Be In Your Bookbag

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5-8+ years of experience in pre-sales operations, sales operations, project management, or complex cross-functional roles
• Demonstrated success organizing ambiguous, high-volume, or complex inputs into clear, high-quality deliverables
  
  
• Proven experience using AI-enabled tools as a collaborative part of professional workflows (e.g., synthesizing inputs, drafting and refining content, aligning responses to requirements, supporting quality review), with sound judgment around accuracy, compliance, and final output
• Strong product fluency, with the ability to understand, compare, and clearly articulate product capabilities, use cases, and differentiators in support of pre-sales work
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical, instructional, and operational information for diverse internal audiences
• High comfort level partnering across Sales, Product, Content, State Adoptions, Marketing, and Operations teams to drive alignment and shared ownership
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
• Experience building, maintaining, and improving intake processes, templates, prompts, tracking tools, and documentation repositories
• Ability to balance speed, quality, and compliance in deadline-driven environments

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience supporting RFPs, proposals, or state adoption processes, preferably in education or another regulated environment
• Strong product experience, with the ability to understand, compare, and communicate product capabilities, instructional models, and implementation considerations in support of pre-sales work
• Process-oriented mindset with the ability to identify gaps and implement scalable, tech-enabled improvements
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, Excel/Sheets, project management tools, and document management systems

What Gives Us Purpose

Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We're driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you'll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.

What We Provide

• Holistic Wellbeing
  
  
  
  • An inclusive range of Health Insurance options
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance at no cost to you
  
  
  
  
• Fostering Joy
  
  
  
  • Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy
  • Your Time, Your Way - paid time off that you can use as you see fit to recharge and nurture your personal life
  
  
  
  
• Empowering Parenthood
  
  
  
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Reduced working hours on full pay for soon-to-be and new parents
  • Free access to CL products for employees and their children
  
  
  
  
• A Place for Connection
  
  
  
  • Quarterly Wellness Incentives
  • Monthly employee activities + recognition program
  • 9 Employee Resource Groups
  
  
  
  

What We Believe

We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.

If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.