VP, Employer Growth

The VP of Employer Growth & Engagement is responsible for driving employer acquisition, matching, engagement, retention, and overall success.

This leader will bring deep marketplace growth expertise, leveraging advanced automation and AI-driven strategies to scale high-volume employer acquisition, engagement, and retention sustainably, ensuring Riipen's employer ecosystem grows efficiently while delivering high-quality experiences that lead to measurable student outcomes.

You'll own the full employer lifecycle—from acquisition and activation through retention and long-term success—while collaborating closely with Revenue, Ecosystem, Operations, and Delivery leadership to align strategy and execution across Riipen's growing suite of programs and products.

This role will include well defined collaboration points with Revenue leadership on the handoff of employer-led revenue opportunities and on how employer feedback informs post-sale improvements, ensuring seamless integration across the employer lifecycle.

Location: Canada or US (Remote)

• Own end-to-end employer acquisition, activation, retention, and lifecycle management across all Riipen programs and products.
• Build and execute scalable strategies to grow and retain Riipen's employer network while ensuring project quality and alignment with learner outcomes.
• Developing strategies to grow Riipen's employer and industry relationships across high value sectors, regions and segments to support Riipen's growth and expansion goals.
• Oversee employer matching and engagement, optimizing conversion rates from project posting to student completion.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing growth and engagement team focused on data-driven decision-making, experimentation, and performance marketing.
• Emphasize early identification of issues and alignment of corrective actions to maintain company-wide cohesion and progress.
• Own and elevate the end-to-end employer experience across the platform. Collaborate closely with Product and Data teams to improve employer experience through automation, AI, and predictive insights.
• Partner with the VP, Revenue to align acquisition strategies with pipeline goals and revenue targets.
• Partner with the VP, Ecosystem to ensure messaging consistency and shared impact storytelling and approach across programs and audiences.
• Partner with the VP, Operations and Delivery function leaders to streamline delivery, program operations, and scalability across geographies.
• Develop playbooks, KPIs, and best practices for marketplace growth and employer success.
• Champion cross-functional alignment and ensure consistent feedback loops between employer data, sales performance, and program operations.

• Bring 10+ years of experience in growth, marketplace management, or employer success in SaaS, edtech, or workforce platforms.
  
  Have proven success leading both acquisition and retention strategies for two-sided marketplaces and bring experience in leading acquisition in hard to reach markets .
• Are highly data-driven and experienced in leveraging AI or automation to improve marketplace outcomes.
• Have a strong grasp of product marketing, growth experimentation, and employer lifecycle optimization.
  Excel in cross-functional leadership and thrive in environments requiring deep collaboration across revenue, ecosystem, customer success, and operations teams.

We ask that if you feel like you don't check all the boxes but have the potential to learn what you don't know, that you still apply We believe that diverse teams are high performing teams and we strive to employ individuals with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

• Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate)
• 4-weeks of annual vacation
• Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day
• Flexible health spending account
• Work from home stipend

We appreciate your interest and application. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Riipen is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, colour, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances.

Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.

Conceptualized by Dana Stephenson and Dave Savory for their capstone entrepreneurship project at the University of Victoria, Riipen addressed an issue that they faced personally as learners — the challenge of gaining relevant work experience, building a network of possible employers, and then demonstrating their skills to that network in order to find work that would help them start their careers. They were facing the graduation conundrum — You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience without a job.

Since inception in 2013, Riipen has expanded its reach internationally and has developed a state of the art technology platform that caters and provides significant competitive advantages for organizations and academic institutions while staying true to their original goal of supporting student development. Riipen has enabled 193,000+ students at 590+ post-secondary institutions and training providers to partake in applied learning with 31,000+ companies. All of this leads us to our mission: Eliminate Underemployment.