Campus Operations & Partnerships Lead

Bumble; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bumble is seeking an Associate Manager of Operations & Sales to join its College team. This role will serve as the operational backbone, keeping projects on track, building structure across a fast-moving portfolio, and ensuring efficient planning, budgeting, contracts, and invoicing while coordinating cross-functional teams, agencies, and campus partners.

You’ll help grow BFF adoption among college organizations, build relationships with sororities and student groups, and contribute hands-on as

Qualifications

• Exceptionally organized with strong attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple fast-moving workstreams simultaneously.
• A natural operator who loves creating order, building systems, and keeping people accountable.
• Strong project management skills with a bias toward action and follow-through.
• Comfortable tracking & owning budgets, contracts, invoicing, timelines, and operational processes.
• Commercially minded and energized by outreach, relationship-building, and getting people excited about a product or idea.
• Confident communicating with everyone from internal executives and cross-functional partners to sorority leaders and college students.
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and comfortable working in an environment where the playbook is still being written.
• Strong pulse on college and Gen Z culture, with genuine curiosity about how students connect, socialize, and build community.
• Willingness to travel and be on the ground at college campuses and events when needed.
• A collaborative, low-ego teammate who is equally comfortable developing a plan and rolling up their sleeves to execute it.

Responsibilities

• Support the operational needs of the College team, helping keep projects, activations, partnerships, and campaigns organized and on schedule.
• Maintain and update the College marketing laydown, providing a clear view of what is happening across campuses, channels, partnerships, and key moments.
• Support the team’s planning and operating cadence, including tracking timelines, status updates, deliverables, and key decision points.
• Follow established systems and processes to help the team to operate more efficiently without adding unnecessary complexity.
• Coordinate across internal teams, agencies, vendors, campus partners, and other stakeholders to keep workstreams moving forward.
• Identify potential roadblocks early to keep projects on track.
• Assist with tracking the College team’s budget, including tracking spend, forecasting, reconciling actuals, and maintaining visibility into remaining budget.
• Process invoices and contract paperwork across agencies, vendors, creators, ambassadors, organizations, and other partners.
• Follow established workflows with Finance, Legal, Procurement, and other internal teams to ensure agreements and payments move efficiently through the organization.
• Maintain organized records and reporting across contracts, invoices, vendors, partnerships, and key deliverables.
• Support outreach of BFF as a platform for college organizations and communities, with an initial focus on sororities, clubs, and other highly connected student groups.
• Help build relationships with influential campus organizations and student leaders.
• Help develop a scalable outreach and onboarding approach that makes it easy for organizations to understand, adopt, and use BFF.
• Track and update pipeline of prospective organizations from initial outreach through activation and ongoing engagement.
• Gather feedback from campus partners and students to identify opportunities to improve the experience and inform broader College and BFF strategy.
• Partner with Marketing and Product to identify creative ways to drive organizational adoption and turn early partners into advocates.
• Support the broader College team across activations, partnerships, ambassadors, events, and other marketing initiatives as directed.
• Be willing to get hands‑on— including traveling to campuses, attending events, supporting activations, and jumping in wherever needed to make something successful.
• Stay close to college culture and proactively bring forward new ideas, partnerships, organizations, and opportunities.
• Operate with a “no task is too big or too small” mentality as we continue to build and evolve our college strategy.

Skills

Exceptional organization

Progress tracking

Project management

Budget tracking

Relationship building

Executive communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Gen Z culture awareness

Travel readiness

Collaborative teamwork

Job description

Bumble is seeking an Associate Manager of Operations & Sales to join its College team. This role will serve as the operational backbone, keeping projects on track, building structure across a fast-moving portfolio, and ensuring efficient planning, budgeting, contracts, and invoicing while coordinating cross-functional teams, agencies, and campus partners.

You’ll help grow BFF adoption among college organizations, build relationships with sororities and student groups, and contribute hands-on as