Senior Project Manager

Overview:

The Senior Project Manager will serve as a critical execution partner to our CEO and VP of Marketing, driving high-velocity front-end and marketing initiatives that directly impact our growth trajectory. This role demands someone who can translate executive vision into shipped products at founder speed, orchestrating cross-functional teams while maintaining the relentless pace that defines our competitive edge. You'll own the operational excellence behind our most visible customer-facing projects, ensuring we move from concept to launch faster than our competition can react. This isn't traditional project management - it's strategic execution at the intersection of marketing innovation and technical delivery, where every sprint shapes how millions of learners discover and experience our AI-powered platform.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. 

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

• AI-Native at every level
  From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocity
  Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
• Free-market rigor
  Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full-stack ownership
  You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contribution
  Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
• Relentless exploration
  Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
• Is Apolitical
  You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Q2-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q1-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter

Qualifications:

• 5+ years driving complex technical marketing projects or campaign launches with demonstrable impact on revenue or user growth metrics.
• Technical fluency to collaborate with engineering & BI teams - you can read API documentation, understand front-end architecture decisions, and participate meaningfully in technical trade-off discussions.
• Data-driven decision making capabilities with proficiency in analytics tools (SQL, Looker, or similar) to measure project impact and iterate based on user behavior.
• Experience shipping at high-growth technology companies where speed-to-market determined competitive advantage.
• Mastery of modern project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban) with the judgment to know when to break the rules.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills capable of context-switching between technical documentation and executive briefings
• AI tool proficiency for accelerating workflows - from project planning to stake