Director of Placement

The Director of Placement is accountable for regional student placement performance and strategy, leading a team of Regional Placement Managers and providing direction and support to local coordinators. This role plays an important part in the HSEY leadership team, connecting program growth with strong execution and quality.

What You Will Do

As a Director of Placement, you will lead student placement progress, team performance, and priorities across your assigned area of the USA, driving progress toward established placement goals and using data to identify opportunities and address gaps.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We are looking for a strong people leader who is organized, accountable, and motivated by both results and purpose, with experience leading people, coaching performance, and supporting professional growth, and the ability to build accountability, support consistent follow-through, and develop others toward strong performance.

Requirements

• Experience leading people, coaching performance, and supporting professional growth
• Experience in recruitment, business development, account management, operations, or another results-focused environment
• Experience setting goals, tracking performance, using data to guide decisions, and translating organizational goals into clear priorities and measurable team actions
• Ability to build accountability, support consistent follow-through, and develop others toward strong performance
• Ability to build strong relationships across teams, including with staff, coordinators, schools, students, and host families
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment
• Clear communication skills and the ability to provide direction, solve problems, and make sound decisions in a collaborative way
• Comfort working across teams and supporting shared goals in a distributed environment
• Commitment to growth, service, quality, cultural exchange, and EF’s mission

Benefits

• Four weeks paid vacation your first year
• Ten paid holidays
• Two floating holidays
• Exciting business travel opportunities
• 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
• Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, legal and pet insurance
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Access to fertility care and family-building support
• Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
• Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
• Robust Employee Assistance Program
• Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
• EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, Au Pair program and more)
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
• Amazing offices designed to match the caliber of the people who work there, plus the flexibility of working from home one day a week.