ABOUT PRIMER
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.
Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You'll own the growth and operations of our work with two nascent programs — the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program and the Alabama School Choice Tax Credit. — that unlock access to Primer for thousands of working-class families.
One of our operating principles is 'Access is the constraint'. There are plenty of good schools in the US — there are very few that are truly accessible to the hard-working American families that are increasingly being left behind. These new tax credit programs present a tremendous opportunity to finally change that. The Federal program launches January 2027 and Alabama is live now — which means everything you test in Alabama this year becomes the playbook for Federal in January (and other state programs as we expand).
Your goal is simple: grow these programs as quickly as possible through every available channel — paid acquisition, local marketing, business developments (and many more ideas we haven't thought of yet). You'll own Primer's relationship with both national and state tax-credit Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) end to end: negotiating final terms, setting state-by-state funding amounts and timelines, and acting as the bridge between their teams and Primer's internal teams (Bursar, Foundation). In Alabama, you'll drive corporate donors to state SGO partners — including outreach to corporate prospects who can utilize significant state income tax credits ($1m+) — and build individual donor growth through paid acquisition and Primer's network.
This will likely be the hardest work of your life. You will work across many states, partner closely with Primer's policy, legal, and marketing teams, and encounter many unknowns. But if you succeed, you will have built an engine that unlocks a trajectory-changing education for the next generation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Federal Tax Credit Programs
- Own Primer's Federal SGO relationships: negotiate final terms, set by-state funding amounts, establish timelines, and grow the relationship over time.
- Liaise between SGO teams and Primer's internal teams (Bursar, Foundation, Legal, Finance).
- Launch and run Primer's in-house SGO growth engine: paid acquisition, landing pages, and creative.
Alabama Tax Credit Programs
- Run outreach to corporate prospects capable of utilizing $1M+/yr in state income tax credits, sourcing through Primer's Alabama network.
- Build individual donor growth through paid acquisition and Primer's network.
- Own growth end-to-end, including annual targets, creatives, and contractors.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- A true, seasoned generalist who executes across operations, marketing, and external-facing work. You move fluidly between negotiating with a partner, drafting creative concepts for a paid campaign, and analyzing retention cohorts.
- You've owned a number before. You've been measured on dollars generated, deals closed, or revenue grown — and you can walk us through exactly how you did it.
- Comfort negotiating with external partners.
- Experience running or directing paid acquisition — you don't need to run the ads yourself, but you need to know what a well-performing paid acquisition channel looks like..
- Steep slope. This workstream could 10x in 24 months. We're hiring for where you'll be in year four, not just day one.
- You feel the mission. These programs unlock education options for the millions of kids being left behind. If that doesn't move you, the grind won't be worth it.
WHY THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE A FIT
- You're a specialist. If you're world-class at performance marketing but uncomfortable on a call with a corporate partner — or vice versa.
- You need a playbook. The Federal program doesn't exist yet. You're writing it.
- You want to manage a team on day one. You'll start as a team of one with contractors.
- You're uncomfortable being judged on a number. Your success metric is dollars generated.
Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive change. In service of that, we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work that’s unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you, we’d love to see you apply.
Listed by Primer for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
ABOUT PRIMER
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.
Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Every new Primer campus starts as an empty building in a city where we've never operated. Someone has to turn it into a school fast: pass code, fit the budget, and feel like Primer the moment a kid walks in. That's you. This isn't a support role bolted onto real estate. The pace we open campuses at depends on how fast and how well you can run this process, and the standards you set here get reused at every campus after it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Site feasibility and pre-construction
- Before Primer signs a lease, you've already run the numbers. You'll lead code analysis and zoning review, coordinate traffic and parking studies, run test fits and space programming, and make the go/no-go call on new sites. You'll also build the diligence playbook, so the next site evaluation takes days, not weeks.
- Permitting and project management
- You'll manage permitting across jurisdictions: building permits, fire life safety, ADA, zoning variances, change of use. You'll run the civil engineers, FLS specialists, and local architects of record on each project, and you'll know the code officials and inspectors in each city well enough that they pick up when you call. You'll juggle several projects at different stages without dropping a deadline.
- FF&E and product specification
- You'll research and spec the furniture, equipment, and branded materials that go into every Primer campus. You'll build a vendor list and product catalog other teams can order from. And you'll find the value engineering wins that save money without cutting corners on the student experience.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years in architectural project management, interior design, or something close, with real ownership from design through construction
- Experience building design standards or prototypes for multi-location rollout (a big plus)
- Background in schools, retail, or hospitality, anywhere physical space matters to the people using it
- Deep knowledge of building codes, ADA, fire life safety, zoning, and permitting across multiple jurisdictions
- Fluency in 3D Modeling Software, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe InDesign, Autodesk Revit, Bluebeam, or equivalent, plus comfort with project management tools (Asana)
- You'll be producing the standards and playbooks other people build from
- The ability to run multiple projects and vendors at once without losing a thread
WHY THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE A FIT
- You want to design one beautiful building and live in it for a year. This role moves fast across many sites at once, and nothing sits still long enough for that kind of depth.
- You'd rather hand off permitting and consultant management to someone else. Here, you're the one chasing the inspector and keeping the civil engineer on schedule.
- You need a finished playbook to work from. Part of the job is building that playbook as you go, so some of it will be genuinely undefined when you start.
Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive change. In service of that, we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work that’s unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you, we’d love to see you apply.
Listed by Primer for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.
Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
About the role
Primer is opening new campuses across the country, and every one of them is a construction project. Somebody has to be on those sites: walking the slab, chasing down answers, catching the problem before it costs more time. That's you.
You're the field point of contact for everyone who touches our projects. General contractors, subs, trade partners, vendors, handymen, inspectors. When they have a question, they call you. When HQ needs to know what's actually happening on site, they call you too.
What you'll own
Submittals, Requests for Information (RFIs), and schedules across all active projects. Your job is to keep things moving and keep HQ informed, in that order.
Field documentation. Matterport scans, drone footage, progress photos and video, captured consistently so nobody has to guess what a site looks like.
Warranty work. When something breaks after we open, you make sure it's logged, assigned, and fixed. You're the thread between construction, facilities, and compliance.
Site walks at every stage: pre-acquisition, pre-construction, active construction, and compliance. You turn what you see into updates the real estate team can act on.
What you'll need
A degree in construction management, civil engineering, or architecture, or the hands-on experience that beats one.
Comfort with heavy travel. Figure70% of your time on the road, managing your own priorities across multiple live sites.
The ability to translate field conditions into plain, actionable updates for a remote HQ team. You'll do this daily.
Fluency in standard construction documentation: submittals, RFIs, schedules, close-out.
Experience with Matterport and jobsite photo workflows, or the willingness to learn them fast.
FAA Part 107 drone certification, or you'll get it within 90 days of hire.
Low ego. You'll be building trust with everyone from a GC's project manager to a handyman working a punch list.
This probably isn't for you if
You want to be home every night. This job lives on the road.
Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive change. In service of that, we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work that’s unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you, we’d love to see you apply.
Listed by Primer for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
ABOUT PRIMER
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.
Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Every new Primer campus starts as an empty building in a city where we've never operated. Someone has to turn it into a school fast: pass code, fit the budget, and feel like Primer the moment a kid walks in. That's you. This isn't a support role bolted onto real estate. The pace we open campuses at depends on how fast and how well you can run this process, and the standards you set here get reused at every campus after it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Site feasibility and pre-construction
- Before Primer signs a lease, you've already run the numbers. You'll lead code analysis and zoning review, coordinate traffic and parking studies, run test fits and space programming, and make the go/no-go call on new sites. You'll also build the diligence playbook, so the next site evaluation takes days, not weeks.
- Permitting and project management
- You'll manage permitting across jurisdictions: building permits, fire life safety, ADA, zoning variances, change of use. You'll run the civil engineers, FLS specialists, and local architects of record on each project, and you'll know the code officials and inspectors in each city well enough that they pick up when you call. You'll juggle several projects at different stages without dropping a deadline.
- FF&E and product specification
- You'll research and spec the furniture, equipment, and branded materials that go into every Primer campus. You'll build a vendor list and product catalog other teams can order from. And you'll find the value engineering wins that save money without cutting corners on the student experience.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years in architectural project management, interior design, or something close, with real ownership from design through construction
- Experience building design standards or prototypes for multi-location rollout (a big plus)
- Background in schools, retail, or hospitality, anywhere physical space matters to the people using it
- Deep knowledge of building codes, ADA, fire life safety, zoning, and permitting across multiple jurisdictions
- Fluency in 3D Modeling Software, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe InDesign, Autodesk Revit, Bluebeam, or equivalent, plus comfort with project management tools (Asana)
- You'll be producing the standards and playbooks other people build from
- The ability to run multiple projects and vendors at once without losing a thread
WHY THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE A FIT
- You want to design one beautiful building and live in it for a year. This role moves fast across many sites at once, and nothing sits still long enough for that kind of depth.
- You'd rather hand off permitting and consultant management to someone else. Here, you're the one chasing the inspector and keeping the civil engineer on schedule.
- You need a finished playbook to work from. Part of the job is building that playbook as you go, so some of it will be genuinely undefined when you start.
Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive change. In service of that, we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work that’s unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you, we’d love to see you apply.
Listed by Primer for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
ABOUT PRIMER
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.
Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a financial analysis and business partnership role at its core. You'll drive financial analysis for a national private school network that runs on PrimerOS, our learning and operations management platform. Reporting to our Head of Finance, you'll be the strategic business partner to functional leaders—helping them weigh tradeoffs, assess performance, and put our financial strategy into action.
WHAT YOU’D OWN
- Site-level performance: partner with our state General Manager teams to own site-level forecasts, enabling the company to make decisions grounded in our financial realities and strategic priorities
- Real Estate: partner with the Real Estate team to drive the completeness and accuracy of our pro-forma modeling, returns forecasting, and project-level budget-vs-actual analyses.
- Business partnership: partner with cross-functional teams on a variety of operational decisions by providing guidance, analysis, and historical financial data to inform their decisions. You might be forecasting headcount one moment and budgeting paid marketing spend the next.
- Financial operations: partner with our Controller to ensure forward-looking views tie cleanly to actuals from our accounting system.
- Reporting: support our Monthly Business Review process and own the delivery of management financial reporting, both programmatic and ad hoc; support the Head of Finance with Board / investor matters from time to time.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, include experience with financial modeling and reporting; experience in finance business partnership is a plus.
- This role spans real estate, capital planning, business partnership, and corporate finance - you should spike (have prior experience) in at least one area and be excited to become an expert at the rest.
- AI-forward: it’s been months since you built a model without using Claude, Codex, or the like. You’re oriented towards building from scratch only once.
- Resilient: we are a startup building in a complex problem space. You’ll need a builder mindset, bias towards enablement, and willingness to learn new things.
- You bring a diplomatic and trustworthy presence to the rooms you’re in; you are able to adapt your style for differing considerations and levels of financial sophistication.
- Financial acumen: you’ll be expected to provide clarity on decisions large and small, and to do so you’ll need to rely on the right mix of rigorous analysis and financial intuition.
NICE TO HAVES
- Time spent in businesses with a real estate footprint (education, QSR, fitness, dentistry, etc.)
- Familiarity with some of: NetSuite, Ramp, Salesforce, Hex
WHY THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE A FIT
- You enjoy FP&A maintenance roles with limited responsibilities beyond traditional reporting calendars.
- You are unfamiliar with the scope of finance roles at startups or on lean finance teams.
- You don’t enjoy the work of business building - this isn’t the role for someone looking to build presentations and round to the nearest million.
- This is not an accounting role and you will not be expected to post journal entries or reconcile bank statements; however you should possess a working familiarity of foundational accounting principals.
Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive change. In service of that, we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work that’s unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you, we’d love to see you apply.
Listed by Primer for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform.
Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on.
You'll generate high quality sales opportunities for our BDM's, within a specific set of target accounts through proactive outbound business development activities
Expertly guiding leads through the initial stages of the sales process
Booking outbound meetings using a multi-channel approach such as cold calls, emails, social outreach and video prospecting
Conduct market research to identify potential new customers
Creatively finding ways that engages with our ICP
👀 What we’d love to see:
A self-starter who spots opportunities and runs with them, rather than waiting for direction.
Confident sharing your ideas, learnings, and experiments. Even when they’re still rough.
Comfortable picking up the phone, jumping into new conversations, and finding creative ways to open doors.
Curious and thoughtful in how you approach prospects. Always looking to understand, not just pitch.
A collaborative communicator who contributes to team thinking and keeps momentum high.
Motivated by growth, feedback, and the thrill of making things happen in a fast-moving environment.
🚫 You may not like it here if:
You enjoy working in an office-setting, we are remote-first and always will be!
You are not comfortable with shifting context and navigating ambiguity
Don’t enjoy the hunting side of the role! We’ll empower you to build a solid pipeline with a great stack of resources.
✅ A typical interview process
An initial intro call with a Talent Partner
An interview with the Hiring Manager
Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role
A final, values-alignment interview
What's the culture like at Primer?
We're building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.
We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities.
The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there's a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It's never something you face alone.
Our benefits
🌍 We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one 💰 Competitive share options 🌴 Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken 🗣️ Co-working space access across major cities 📅 Workations & Company Retreat 💻 The best equipment for your role 🏠 £500 towards your home office setup 🔎 Generous learning budget 🏥 Private Medical Insurance 📈 A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)
Don’t meet every single requirement?
At Primer, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other background or belief.
Listed by Primer for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
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