Program Associate / Senior Associate

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Program Associate driving high-volume software license compliance engagements for Connor Consulting’s enterprise software publisher program. Managing licensee outreach, platform onboarding, verification, reporting, and escalations.

Responsibilities:

  • Own an assigned portfolio of active compliance engagements from initial outreach through closure against cycle-time and service-level targets
  • Conduct daily email and phone outreach and structured follow-up with licensee contacts
  • Onboard licensees onto the audit platform and resolve access or usability issues
  • Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for licensee questions, objections, and concerns
  • Escalate contractual, disputed, or legal matters to the Senior Manager
  • Lead verification calls to confirm and clarify data submitted through the platform
  • Coordinate manual-review exception paths for licensees unable or unwilling to use the platform
  • Review submissions for completeness and obvious anomalies
  • Apply standardized methodology and templates and prepare findings for Senior Manager review
  • Maintain account status, contact history, and next actions in Connor’s engagement platform
  • Produce recurring client and internal program reporting, including pipeline, aging, response and completion rates, and results
  • Monitor throughput, flag bottlenecks and recurring objections, and recommend process improvements
  • Support onboarding and day-to-day direction of additional program staff
  • Senior Associate: carry a larger portfolio, own sensitive or high-value accounts, quality-review supporting staff work, and act as backup program lead

Requirements:

  • BA/BS in Business Administration, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent practical experience will be considered
  • 2+ years in software license compliance, contract or audit compliance support, customer success, account management, renewals, inside sales, or a comparable high-volume client-facing role
  • Exposure to software licensing concepts and contract terms
  • Ability to learn a publisher’s licensing model quickly
  • Experience managing a high volume of concurrent accounts or cases without loss of accuracy or follow-through
  • Comfort applying a repeatable process consistently across hundreds of accounts while recognizing exceptions requiring escalation
  • Fluency with CRM, ticketing, or case management platforms such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Monday.com, or Zendesk
  • Track record of disciplined data hygiene
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and solid Excel skills, including lookups and pivot tables
  • Excellent written communication
  • Confident verbal communication and ability to lead calls with technical, procurement, or finance contacts
  • Professional persistence when following up with unresponsive contacts and navigating resistance
  • Self-directed, organized, and reliable with minimal day-to-day supervision
  • Based in and available to work United States business hours
  • Minimal travel expected, up to 10%
  • Prior publisher-side or Big 4 software license compliance team experience preferred
  • Experience supporting customers through a self-service or customer-completed data collection platform preferred
  • Familiarity with common software deployment and usage data sources preferred
  • Second-language capability in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, or Polish preferred

Benefits:

  • Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion
  • Minimal travel, up to 10%
  • Remote work aligned to United States time zones
  • Occasional flexibility for varied schedules to accommodate licensees in other time zones
  • Opportunity to add supporting staff and grow into a Manager role as the program scales