Associate Dean of Executive Education

About the role

The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University is seeking an Associate Dean to lead its Executive Education portfolio. The role reports to a Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and oversees an operation of approximately 80 staff professionals involved in program design and delivery, business development, marketing, and related finance and technology support.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to Executive Education staff, including communicating the vision for the organization, establishing goals and key metrics for success, and ensuring the ongoing development and retention of talent.
• Work closely with the Senior Associate Dean and the Dean of the GSB in setting and implementing strategic priorities.
• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of enterprise and open enrollment programs with both in-person and online modalities, attracting executives from a wide array of sectors and global environments.
• Establish strategic and operational metrics that drive behaviors and effectively measure success in revenue generation, profit delivery, and mission outcomes.
• Develop strong faculty partnerships in the ongoing development of existing and new programs.
• Effectively leverage GSB’s infrastructure and resources.
• Design and deliver compelling marketing strategies to meet or exceed enrollment targets.
• Build global client relationships in pursuit of new enterprise opportunities.
• Pursue opportunities to innovate in content and modality.
• Direct and facilitate market intelligence efforts, including competitive benchmarking and identification and analysis of market opportunities.
• Lead the department's annual budget process.
• Develop comprehensive financial analysis and strategic modeling for both short and long-term planning and proposals.
• Participate and advise on GSB-wide strategy, initiatives, and budgeting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and ten years of relevant leadership experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.
• Demonstrated strategic leadership, organizational planning, and change management skills.
• An ability to design for the unknown from a solid foundation in utilizing leading-edge marketing, programming, and technology.
• A results orientation in complex environments; demonstrated judgment in balancing inclusive collaboration and decisive accountability.
• Solid business management, market intelligence, and financial forecasting skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of influence and diplomacy, persuading a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Courage to challenge entrenched views and pursue non-traditional opportunities with data, insights, and vision.
• Demonstrated creativity in problem-solving, critical analysis, and initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated leadership behaviors, curious mindset, humble demeanor.
• A coaching orientation towards the management of others.
• Demonstrated passion for our institutional mission of education and research.

Preferred Requirements

• B2B and B2C product delivery excellence in higher education, tech, or commercial industry.
• Proven success collaborating with and supporting faculty and/or best-in-class subject matter experts.
• Affinity with adopting and exploiting new tools and technologies (AI) in the development of products and acquisition of customers.
• Advanced degree desired; MBA preferred.

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position at 100% FTE is $237,369 - $335,763 per year.