Director of AdmissionsUniversity of Austin

Job Summary

As a key member of the leadership team, you will bridge the gap between high-level strategy and technical execution. You will serve as a key ambassador for UATX—meeting with prospective students, parents, and developing relationships with key schools and networks—while acting as a systems and operations architect. Leveraging Palantir Foundry and other IT systems, you will implement the automated data pipelines and AI-driven workflows that power our growth. This is a role for an entrepreneurial builder tasked with designing the strategy, managing a small AI powered team, and ensuring our operational infrastructure keeps us nimble.

• Strategic Leadership: Collaborating with the President and his cabinet, serve as a core member of the leadership team, aligning admissions goals with the university’s long-term vision and participating in high-level institutional decision-making.

• Foundry Systems Engineering: Deploy an automated admissions workflow using Palantir’s Foundry to create an operational pipeline.

• High-Stakes Ambassadorship: Represent UATX extensively across the U.S., delivering presentations that distill the university’s mission and program into a compelling call to action for students and families.

• Tactical Execution: Develop and execute a comprehensive recruitment strategy that bridges the gap between high-level vision and ground-level results, moving fluidly from "big picture" planning to "in-the-weeds" execution.

• Organizational Scaling: Evaluate, build, and lead a sustainable, entrepreneurial admissions team; establish scalable systems and documentation to support a rapidly growing institution; develop automated reporting for president, board, and accreditors.

• Delegation: Act as a captain for prospective student engagement, identifying and delegating high-value meetings to the appropriate faculty or leadership to ensure families receive a highly tailored UATX experience.

• Pipeline Development: Cultivate partnerships with schools, counselors, and networks to secure a high-caliber and high-affinity applicant pool.

• Mission-Driven: Aligned with UATX’s mission of education in the principles, ideas, and entrepreneurial ethos of Western civilization. Able to speak with authority on UATX’s educational philosophy.

• Entrepreneurial: A "builder" mindset with the capacity to hire, mentor, and manage a team while maintaining a personal track record of ownership and follow-through.

• Strategic & Tactical Agility: The ability to iterate on a 12-month recruitment roadmap with senior leadership and collaborate on tactical marketing with the communications team.

• Master Communicator: Exceptional people skills, with the ability to become well informed about the UATX program and its unique value propositions.

• Start-up Energy and Mindset: UATX is a mission-driven startup; we expect an uncommon level of commitment of time and energy.

• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.

As an academic community, UATX values both the wisdom of the past and the transformative potential of novel ideas. The University is dedicated to the preservation and transmission of humanity’s rich intellectual, scientific, artistic, and cultural inheritance. At the same time, UATX vigorously pursues the discovery, creation, and communication of new knowledge. Each of these endeavors depends on our fostering an environment of intellectual freedom and pluralism. UATX strives to build and sustain a community based on the lively clash of ideas and opinions. 

UATX does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

• Competitive annual salary of $160k-$195k/yr depending on experience

• Benefits, etc.

• Relocation assistance for exceptional candidates