Vice President, Enrollment Operations

Vice President, Enrollment Operations

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission to eliminate the back row in education and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world's leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We're Looking For

The Vice President of Enrollment Operations is a strategic and operational leader responsible for driving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of 2U's enrollment operations across its Degree and Executive Education businesses. This executive oversees the full enrollment lifecycle, ensuring a seamless, high-quality experience for prospective learners and strong alignment with marketing, technology, and university partner teams.

The role focuses on organizational design, process optimization, technology integration, and team development. Success in this role will be measured by the strength, scalability, and consistency of 2U's enrollment engine. This role will focus on designing and guiding the overall strategy for the enrollment team and will not directly engage in recruitment or admissions activities, directly evaluate individual student recruitment or admissions staff, or directly manage recruiters or their managers.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To :

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and deploy a scalable, data-informed enrollment strategy aligned with 2U's goals.
• Partner with Marketing, technology, and University Partnerships to ensure tight integration between lead generation, admissions operations, and student onboarding.
• Establish the vision and roadmap for future-state enrollment systems, automation, and service models that enhance efficiency and transparency.
• Represent Enrollment as part of the company's senior leadership team, providing insight into market dynamics, performance, and opportunities for improvement.

Operational Excellence

Team Leadership

Data and Insights

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Things That Should Be In Your Background :

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role :

While this position is open to remote candidates across the U.S., we will prioritize those who live in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area and who are available to come into our Headquarters in Arlington, VA two days a week.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you're excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work / life balance. Full-time, U.S. benefits include :

The anticipated base salary range for this role is ($153,300 -$193,700), with potential bonus eligibility. Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, budget for the position and cost of labor in the market in which the candidate will be hired.

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we've taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike.

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at : recruitingaccommodations@2u.com .

About 2U LLC

For more than a decade, 2U, Inc. has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings from free courses to full degrees and helping unlock human potential. To learn more : visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U, LLC. Together with the majority of the world's top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.