Crimson Education
Crimson Education
Posted 3 days ago
Full Time
Portland, Oregon
Fully Remote
Smart Summary
The main responsibility is serving as the first point of contact for incoming leads, managing, contacting, and qualifying them for Crimson programs while ensuring accurate data entry in Salesforce. This role also involves scheduling meetings for leads with Academic Advisors and continuously improving sales techniques.
We are looking for someone with excellent communication and organizational skills, experience in customer service, and a willingness to learn. Experience in US college admissions or in the education sector is a plus. This is a remote, full-time position with flexible working hours.
Must Have Skills for ATS
English Proficiency
Customer Service
Customer Success
Communication Skills
Organization Skills
Professionalism
Time Management
Stress Management
Confidence
Positive Attitude
Willingness To Learn
CRM Usage
Salesforce
Job Description
Crimson Education is the world’s leading college admissions consulting firm, with over 1,490 Ivy League offers and 2,410 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the world’s top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
We’re the only college admissions consultancy that brings together:
Former Ivy League and Top 20 admissions officers to rigorously review and refine applications
Professors and PhD teaching fellows from leading universities to guide students through original, independent research — with pathways to selective peer-reviewed publication or conference presentation
Past ISEF winners and judges who coach students to compete for state, national, and international science fair awards
Capstone project mentors who help students design and scale leadership initiatives with real-world impact, measurable outcomes, and credible external validation
We’re backed by leading VC firms, including Tiger Global, Heal Partners, IceHouse Ventures, and Movac, and recently closed a USD $40M Series D funding round at a USD $640M valuation. We now operate across 21 markets worldwide, including the US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
This is a full-time, remote position. We are ideally looking for Saturday + Sunday coverage, but Saturday or Sunday only may also be considered. We are open to flexible arrangements such as working only 4 days total instead of 5 days if providing full weekend coverage. The ideal candidate will be able to build rapport easily, be customer-obsessed, and have a growth mindset.
The purpose of this role is to be the first point of contact for incoming leads and potential clients, ensuring a smooth customer experience across a variety of Crimson programs, by:
Managing, contacting, and qualifying inbound warm/hot leads to Crimson
Providing resources to lead to inform them of opportunities with Crimson
Working as part of a high performing team to provide the best experience to potential Crimson students
Making calls and responding to enquiries from leads to qualify them for sales processes, ensuring that data is diligently and accurately entered and managed within Crimson’s Client Relations Management (CRM) system, Salesforce
Updating the record of these leads and tracking their movements to the next stage of the sales pipeline in Salesforce
Schedule meetings for the leads to meet with Crimson’s Academic Advisors
Establish, develop and maintain positive and professional customer interactions and relationships for Crimson
Continuously improving sales techniques, processes and enhancing industry knowledge
Proficient in English - Spoken/Written
Experience in Customer Service, Customer Success
Experience in US college admissions will be preferred but not required
Excellent communication skills
Excellent organisation skills
Professionalism, Time and Stress Management, Confidence, Positive attitude (patience, empathy), Willingness to learn and go the extra mile
Experience in the Education or professional services (e.g. marketing agency, financial services, management consulting, hospitality, etc.) sector and using CRM (Salesforce) and multiple systems and platforms
Flexible working environment, you will be empowered to structure how you work
Limitless development and exposure- our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year.
$1,000 training budget per year- we love to level up!
Psychologist on staff
Impressive fireside chats and workshops to help the team continuously level up
Radical Candour is a feedback approach we live by
We’re a global player with 30 markets (and growing) across the globe!
If you're passionate about education and people and looking for a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and want to work with cutting-edge technology then we'd love to hear from you!
Please keep an eye on your spam / junk email folder for correspondence from Team Tailor.
Crimson Education
Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate. Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries. Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families.
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