We are looking for a Senior Regulatory & Government Relations Manager to ensure our courses meet all required regulations. Reporting to the Director of PMO, this role is a critical link between planning and execution of our online courses. If you are extremely organized, love managing complex processes and improving them, and live for overcoming bureaucracy, this role may be the one for you!

ABOUT ACEABLE 

Aceable is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating affordable, engaging, and convenient online courses available across all of your mobile devices. Built by former teachers, NASA engineers, and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people reach life goals and milestones through online certification. 

After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver's ed courses, Aceable expanded into real estate education and is quickly becoming one of the leading online real estate schools in the U.S. To date, Aceable touts more than 20 million students and counting. The team is proud of the hundred thousand plus students we're adding to the Aceable family per month. We're only getting started, and we need your help to get us to our vision of millions of students per month. 

Aceable was named winner of the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Austin A-List for the Hottest Growing Startup in 2017 and has been awarded as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin for multiple years running by numerous entities, such as the Austin Business Journal, Built-In-Austin, and Equal Ocean. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and diverse culture whose overall mission is to impact as many student-lives as possible. 

ABOUT YOUR NEW TEAM

The Aceable PMO team is redefining how a PMO functions in an organization. Our team enables success across the entire company. In some cases, that means researching and documenting state regulations, in others it’s waterfall project management, and in yet other cases, it’s coordinating the launch of a new course, or filling in for the role of scrum master for an engineering team. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Review and improve regulatory processes and procedures on an ongoing basis for courses in multiple verticals for multiple brands. Confer with leadership on regulatory questions and improvements as needed.
• Document, organize and disseminate processes, rules and procedures in order to train internal stakeholders and inform them of critical regulatory knowledge. 
• Track school and course renewal deadlines, and submit renewal documentation and fees in a timely fashion in order to maintain active approvals for multiple verticals.
• Create and proactively manage relationships with regulatory and government contacts to make communication easy.
• Attend public regulatory and government meetings (about one per month) to raise flags or gain clarification with regulatory entities and communicate with relevant stakeholders as appropriate to achieve and maintain compliance.
• Keep the business informed of any regulatory updates and proactively identify gaps in our product or offering that might need to be addressed. Work with internal and external stakeholders to address any deficiencies in our course submissions. 
• For certain schools and courses, manage the submission of quarterly and yearly reports, state requested data, and audit materials to regulatory and government bodies.
• Respond to inquiries from regulatory and government bodies, leading the internal effort to obtain the answers from the correct department owners.
• Research, document, and communicate in-depth regulatory approval requirements to be used by Product, Engineering, and Learning Experience teams as the company expands into new states or verticals. 
• Lead in-depth course-specific reviews for internal stakeholders to bring awareness of all rules, proactively identify blockers, and assist in scoping the work to be done for a successful product launch.
• Submit and manage all applications and documentation to regulatory and government bodies, as the Company expands into new states or verticals.
• Identify and maintain relationships with instructors of record across multiple verticals.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• 5+ years of relevant work experience 
• Proven ability to manage and lead large, complex software engineering projects with multiple business stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with C-suite executives and ability to align project management best practices and reporting with strategic goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Even-keeled while being driven by a sense of urgency.
• Able to navigate conflicting requirements and opinions to drive decision-making
• Experience working in a Agile development environments and using the Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence)

BONUS POINTS

• Experience using Google Docs/Sheets
• Experience with product and/or process training for support teams

ACEABLE PERKS 

• Join one of Austin's Best Places to Work in 2021 
• Competitive pay and benefits
• Generous time off programs
• Flexible work schedule
• Passionate, high-achieving teammates excited to help you succeed and learn
• Our own space on the top floor of a downtown building
• A team meal every week 
• Fully stocked drink fridges and snacks + cold brew coffee on tap
• Company events & activities (Holiday events, happy hours, quarterly volunteering)
• Free parking spot downtown in our garage 24/7 or a monthly transportation stipend 
• Education stipend ($500/year/employee)
• Free Roadside Assistance subscription
• NOTE: Our team is currently remote due to Covid-19 and we have some awesome virtual perks that come with it (trivia, karaoke, bingo, happy hours, lunch & learns, and more)

At Aceable we celebrate and support all differences. Aceable is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital, disability, and veteran status.