School Strategy Specialist - Bay Area

Epic Kids Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Epic is a digital reading platform for kids 12 and under, with a library of high-quality children’s books, audiobooks, and read-to-me titles. As a Strategic Partnerships Specialist, you’ll be Epic’s local, in-person presence in your community, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Your mission: help educators discover Epic and bring it into classrooms and libraries. You’ll work with schools and districts, building relationships with teachers, librarians, and school communities, helping educators

Qualifications

• Deep, active relationships in the Bay Area in education.
• Experience as a school librarian or district library director.
• Experience as a classroom teacher, especially ELA or reading.
• Passion for kids, books, and classrooms.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of 10–15 priority districts and schools, prioritized by tier.
• Ignite school-wide adoption with librarians and educators to scale usage.
• Lead back-to-school demos, PDs, literacy nights, and association events.
• Build district relationships to expand Epic reach and navigate approvals.
• Address local literacy goals and screen-time considerations in partnerships.
• Log activity and share learnings for the partnership playbook.

Job description

Epic is a digital reading platform for kids 12 and under, with a library of high-quality children’s books, audiobooks, and read-to-me titles. Epic is free for educators, and teachers and librarians across the U.S. use it every day to get kids reading more, with more joy. Many of our biggest champions are school librarians and ELA teachers who brought Epic into their buildings on their own.

About the role

As a Strategic Partnerships Specialist, you’ll be Epic’s local, in-person presence in your community, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your mission: help more educators discover Epic, bring it into their classrooms and libraries, and make reading with Epic part of their everyday routine.

You’ll work with schools and districts in your area, building relationships with teachers, librarians, and school communities. You’ll help educators who already love Epic share it with their colleagues, support teachers as they get started, and introduce Epic to schools that haven’t discovered it yet. This is a grassroots, educator-to-educator role. Epic is free for educators, so this isn’t about selling. It’s about being a trusted local voice who shows teachers how Epic fits into their day.

Along the way, you’ll share what you learn in the field and help shape the school partnership playbook that guides this work as it expands to new markets.

What you’ll do

• Own your portfolio.Work a list of 10 to 15 priority districts and their elementary and K-8 schools, prioritized by tier: schools with only a few active teachers, schools with recent sign-ups who never activated, and schools new to Epic.
• Ignite school wide adoption.Partner with school librarians, existing Epic champions, or library media specialists, to turn one user into a whole school, and re-engage stalled teachers, with a class, students and daily routines like independent reading and read alouds
• Showcase Epic where educators gather.Lead short demos at back-to-school night and PD at staff meetings, literacy nights, and association events, and industry conferences. Rally schools to attend Epic’s onboarding webinars, co-hosting local sessions where possible.
• Unlock district doors.Build relationships with district library services, ELA and literacy coordinators, instructional coaches, and school leaders who can help Epic reach more classrooms. Flag where Epic isn’t yet on a district’s approved app list and connect the right district contacts with Epic’s team to move data privacy agreements forward.
• Champion healthy screen time.Learn local literacy goals and screen-time concerns, and packed schedules, and position Epic as support for what schools already prioritize.
• Track and celebrate.Log activity in a shared tracker, document weekly learnings and wins for the partnership playbook, and nominate standout educators and schools for recognition.

Who you are

We care more about your connection to kids, books, and classrooms than your title. You might be a great fit if you are:

• Former school principal, assistant superintendent, instructional coach, or education leader with deep, active relationships in the Bay Area.
• A current or former school librarian, library media specialist, or district library director
• A current or former classroom teacher, especially an ELA or reading teacher, pre-K through 7th grade
• A reading specialist, literacy coach, or instructional coach who supports K-8 teachers

You also bring

• Familiarity with the K-8 education landscape and how