Coursedog

Coursedog

Coursedog is an Intelligent Academic Operations Platform founded in 2018 by Columbia University computer science students Justin Wenig and Nick Diao. Based in New York, the company focuses on enhancing academic operations within higher education institutions. Coursedog aims to improve student success by modernizing processes that facilitate course enrollment and timely graduation. The platform offers a range of services, including cloud-based academic and event scheduling, curriculum management, online catalogs, assessment and reporting tools, workflow automation, and real-time data integration. These features help educational institutions streamline operations and make data-driven decisions. Coursedog serves over 300 educational institutions, including notable universities like Columbia University, Stanford, and BYU, as well as community colleges and professional schools. The platform supports students by providing easier access to course information and scheduling, ultimately promoting on-time program completion and operational efficiency for institutions.

information technology & services
51-200
Founded 2018
$111M raised

Description

  • Own administration of core SaaS systems, including Rippling, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Maxio, Jira, and related tools.
  • Serve as the company-wide point of contact for internal tool questions, escalations, and requests.
  • Evaluate, procure, implement, and retire internal tools as business needs and operational scale change.
  • Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and renewals in partnership with Finance and Legal.
  • Design and maintain the data architecture connecting internal systems, including data models, pipelines, warehousing, and integrations.
  • Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows using APIs, iPaaS tools, and native connectors to keep data flowing reliably between systems.
  • Establish scalable data governance practices around ownership, quality, definitions, and access.
  • Administer the company’s AI tooling ecosystem, including licensing, access management, usage policies, and employee enablement.
  • Own the internal-systems side of SOC 2 compliance, including access controls, provisioning, access reviews, MFA enforcement, audit logging, and evidence collection.
  • Implement identity and access management controls across the tool stack, and manage endpoint security and MDM for company devices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in IT operations, business systems, data engineering, or systems engineering, with experience leading projects, mentoring teammates, or owning a domain end-to-end.
  • Hands-on experience administering modern SaaS environments such as Okta or a similar IdP, Google Workspace or M365, Salesforce, an HRIS, a finance or ERP system, and support/engineering tools.
  • Strong Jira administration experience and comfort supporting cross-functional operational workflows.
  • Strong experience designing and maintaining data models, integrations, and pipelines, with fluent-level SQL and hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses and ETL/ELT tools such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, Fivetran, or Airbyte.
  • Practical AI fluency with tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, plus experience helping others adopt them.
  • Experience operating a security compliance program such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or similar.
  • Track record building integrations through APIs, iPaaS tools such as Workato, Tray, or Zapier at scale, or native connectors.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into scalable technical solutions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and build strong relationships across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bias toward documentation, automation, and self-service over becoming a bottleneck.
  • Preferred: experience standing up or scaling an AI tooling program, managing direct reports, or leading a SOC 2 Type II audit to a clean report.
  • Preferred: familiarity with MCP, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented systems, scripting in Python or JavaScript, MDM platforms such as Rippling, Kandji, Jamf, or Intune, and endpoint security tools such as SentinelOne.

Benefits

  • Monthly compensation of $9,000 to $11,000, depending on experience, qualifications, and scope of engagement.
  • Fully remote contract role open to candidates anywhere in the continental US.
  • Fixed-term 4-month contract with the possibility of extension or conversion to full-time employment.
  • Eligible full-time conversion path with medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Unlimited paid time off for full-time employees.
  • Retirement savings options for full-time employees.

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