Talent Operations Manager

The Company At Springboard, we’re on a mission to bridge the world’s skills gap, offering transformative online education in data science, UI/UX design, machine learning, and coding. Our courses may be tech-enabled, but we're ultimately human-centric: each student taps into a vast community throughout their time with us, engaging with fellow students, industry-expert mentors, student advisors, and career coaches, the goal of which is to successfully transition students into their dream job. Through this hybrid approach, we’ve helped thousands of learners revamp their careers and, by extension, their lives, with hundreds of top-notch job offers received every year and a near-perfect placement rate for our program graduates. This remote flexible role can be based in any of these states: CA, FL, TX, MA, AZ, NY & IL Type: Full time About Springboard Springboard is an education and workforce development company on a mission to bridge critical skills gaps by enabling individuals to access high-quality, job-aligned training. It offers flexible, mentor-led programs in high-growth fields including AI, allied health, data analytics, software engineering, and more. Springboard partners with employers, healthcare systems, and workforce organizations to deliver programs that build durable talent pipelines, producing measurable business and workforce outcomes. Role Overview The Talent Operations Manager owns the end-to-end operations and quality management of all course talent — including mentors and live instructors — across Tech, Allied Health, and AI programs. This role ensures we have the right talent, onboarded effectively, performing consistently, and deployed reliably as programs scale. The Talent Operations Manager serves as the central owner of talent execution and quality. Through strong management of a small team and partnering closely with program leadership and support operations functions, this role is highly cross-functional and vital to Springboard’s core values. Core Responsibilities Talent Lifecycle Ownership Design strategy for onboarding, training, and readiness processes for mentors and live instructors Ensure consistent performance management, QA, and remediation standards across programs Create systems to identify performance risks and lead improvement plans Capacity & Coverage Planning Own talent capacity planning to support cohort launches and ongoing delivery across all programs Anticipate coverage gaps and mitigate risk before escalation Recruiting Drive sourcing strategy, execution, and hiring workflows for new course talent roles Define hiring readiness, role expectations, and onboarding handoff Maintain a high and consistent hiring bar across talent types Team Management & Operational Excellence Build and maintain scalable talent ops processes and documentation for the team Manage internal team to route tickets, execute payments, and improve response times Lean on data and…