Campus Lead

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · San Francisco, CA · Marketing

This role is focused on building and scaling Cursor's campus programs to get the product into the hands of computer science students at top universities. It involves owning the student discount program, launching and growing a campus ambassador program, and partnering with student organizations and the marketing team. The role is described as a 'builder role' with high autonomy, requiring operational excellence and a strong bias for action.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own our student discount program, make sure we’re getting Cursor into the hands of computer science students at all the top universities
  2. Scale our student discount in a sustainable way
  3. Launch and grow the Campus Ambassador program across universities, empowering student developers to teach and represent Cursor at their schools
  4. Support Campus Ambassadors with playbooks, resources, and real-time guidance to run successful hackathons and workshops
  5. Partner with university clubs and organizations

Skills

Required

  • community program management
  • operational excellence
  • managing multiple workstreams
  • bias for action
  • empathy for communities
  • fast-paced environment experience
  • ambiguity tolerance

Nice to have

  • experience in education
  • passion for helping students

What the JD emphasized

  • high-velocity startup where you owned a meaningful community program
  • Operationally excellent
  • manage multiple workstreams simultaneously without dropping details
  • Strong bias toward action
  • do whatever it takes to ship
  • building new things