Head of Growth & Partnerships, Nursing Schools

About Juno

Juno leverages collective bargaining power to secure better student loan rates for students. With 290000 members and over $2B in negotiated loan volume weve proven that group buying works. We are the most popular way to pay for the worlds top graduate programs and were looking for someone to own the communications that reach our members at the moments that decide whether they borrow with us.

The Problem:

Federal lending reforms have created a significant market July 2026 new caps on federal graduate loans including the elimination of Grad PLUS for new students came into effect leaving millions of students with significant funding gaps. Students need transparent competitive private options exactly what Juno provides.

Your mission:

Were seeking a leader to own our full-funnel growth for nursing schools. Nursing is a brand-new vertical for Juno youll build it from zero into one of our fastest-growing markets. Your efforts will ensure every future nurse gets fair transparent financing options.
Youll build the playbook for reaching hundreds of CRNA DNP and MSN programs and establishing Juno as the go-to resource for nursing student financing.

What youll do:

• Own the nursing vertical: Build and execute GTM strategy from the ground up hit growth targets and drive Juno member growth in a market were entering for the first time
• Scale distribution through partnerships:
  • Negotiate national deals with key organizations that can help reach our target market
  • Activate campus-based chapters with turnkey playbooks
  • Partner with NCLEX prep companies nursing associations and the nursing school admissions ecosystem
  • Run targeted campaigns aligned to application cycles
• Build a campus ambassador network: Recruit train and manage high-performing nursing students across Nursing programs with clear KPIs and incentives
• Talk to members directly: Talk to students directly throughout the cycle. Calls email DMs campus visits. You should know the top five reasons a nursing student with a rate offer never submits an application because youve heard them first-hand not because a dashboard told you.
• Be the expert students trust: Become fluent in how graduate borrowing actually works. Federal vs. private what drives a rate cosigners in-school deferral refinancing and what changed under the new caps and be the person who can give a first-semester Nursing student a straight answer.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives: Partner with product on feature development collaborate with the CX/client happiness team and ensure compliance on messaging
• Manage operations and analytics: Forecast pipeline track cohort performance optimize CAC/LTV and manage budget allocation
• Partner with senior leadership to own waitlist growth loan origination: landing pages A/B tests content webinars email/SMS and event cycles aligned to application admissions and financial aid timelines

What We Offer

Compensation: $150k$250k including performance upside tied to growth milestones. Top performers will exceed this range.

Benefits: Comprehensive health dental vision and retirement matching.

What Were Looking For

• Background: Typically 35 years or an outlier track record (e.g. you scaled a campus network ran national org programming built a zero-to-one motion).
  • Preference for experience in professional services management consulting investment banking or high-growth startups
  • Preference for an owner-operator who has owned a number in growth/BD/marketplaces/fintech/edtech or campus-scale programs.
• Ownership of a number end to end: youll carry the Nursing verticals funded-loan target and the conversion rates underneath it. Youre comfortable being both the person who explains a miss and the person who fixes it.
• Bias to action: ship experiments frequently; instrument attribution; close loops with lender relations & compliance.
• Fluency with your own data: you can find where students stall between a rate offer and a submitted application and make the case for a fix with evidence rather than instinct.
• Relationship-building that compounds: schools student organizations ambassadors and admissions communities. Equally comfortable on a call with a target B2B partner and in a group chat with nursing students.
• Zero-to-one comfort: there is no existing playbook for this vertical. Youll write it and you find that exciting rather than daunting.
• Comfort with seasonality: our year has a peak. You plan for it months ahead and go all-in when it lands.
• Tenacity: we work as hard as it takes to achieve our targets.

The X-Factor

• Youre hungry: Ready to own outcomes not just make recommendations
• Youre scrappy: Will do whatever it takes to win
• Youre magnetic: Can recruit and inspire great people
• You think in systems: youd rather build the process once than do the thing by hand ten times

Why Join Juno

The Opportunity

Real Impact: Help hundreds of thousands of students get access to the lowest rates on the market.

Market Timing: Federal aid changes create massive tailwind for growth.

Proven Model: $2B negotiated 290K members - product-market fit achieved.