Empowerly
Empowerly (empowerly.com) is a platform for personalized college and career guidance. Our mission is to empower students to become the most successful version of themselves, get accepted to their top choice colleges, and solidify their career trajectories.
Why join us?
Empowerly has raised over $10m from top venture capital firms including Goodwater Capital and FJ Labs. We just closed our most recent funding round in November.
Empowerly grew over 6x since 2020 and is now at $6m annual run rate. We have over 1,000 active students and parents on the platform today, mentored by over 150 counselors from around the world. Empowerly is the fastest growing platform today for college and career guidance.
Empowerly is just getting started. Today we primarily target families in the United States through direct to consumer channels, but are in deep conversations with several nonprofits and corporations to expand our B2B2C offerings to accelerate our reach to millions of students across the country.
Empowerly is managed by a team of Stanford, Berkeley, UPenn, and Princeton alumni with previous work experience at Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and Teach For America. Today, the team is around 30 full time employees across marketing, sales, operations, and engineering. Many members of Empowerly's full time team, including the founders, still use the platform to mentor students today and are deeply driven by the mission to empower students to become the most successful version of themselves.
Empowerly's core product is helping 9th-12th graders get into their top choice schools, but we are rapidly expanding into adjacencies. Our platform now supports internship and career guidance for college students as well as an internal recruiting system that matches students to startups, and a research mentorship program for students who want to pursue academia. We are also piloting a program to mentor students with ADHD and autism who want to go to college.
Engineering at Empowerly
Our engineer works closely with each team member on an individual level, discussing ideas and leveraging different viewpoints across business development, marketing, and production divisions. We are result oriented and dedicated to bringing premium services to our customers. Work environment and working hours are extremely flexible. Most software decisions are entirely at the discretion of the engineer.
As a full stack web developer, an engineer at Empowerly must understand and utilize a variety of tools to address issues in database management, automated client processes, and providing a streamlined user interface. We are in hypergrowth and always have a variety of projects that must be deployed to meet customer and internal needs.
We built the Empowerly Score, the only real-time diagnostic solution using a three-pronged holistic evaluation system to predict college admission chances. Using predictive models and guidance from former admissions officers, the Empowerly Score measures and monitors a three-pronged evaluation of academics, extracurriculars, and written essays. It determines the impact of every key factor included in an individual's college application to assess applicant competitiveness for top U.S. colleges.
Working at Empowerly
We are scrappy, fast-paced, and always tackling new projects to grow our company. We have a transparent culture that encourages honest communication. Although we have high expectations, we want everyone to feel supported and happy and often joke around with each other to create a positive community.
We host in person and virtual happy hours at least once a month, and have regular team check ins each week to ensure that everyone is feeling welcome and happy.
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Generous Vacation
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Flexible Hours
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Team Activities
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Work from Home
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Health Insurance
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Company Retreats
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Workshops/Conferences
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Women-led company
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LGBTQ+ friendly
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Dedicated Human Resources team
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