About the Role
This role leads and grows VEG's nursing campus ecosystem and builds nursing externships into a strong lever for early career hiring. It is responsible for building connections across campuses and hospitals, owning the nursing externship strategy end-to-end, and ensuring campus and externship efforts are organized, scalable, and impactful.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale VEG's nursing campus ecosystem, building programs that are effective today and built to grow.
- Own the nursing externship strategy end-to-end, building a scalable program model and a clear student journey.
- Design and execute campus marketing and outreach strategies that attract students to VEG's training programs, externships, and career opportunities.
- Enable and train frontline nursing teams and hospital leaders to confidently represent VEG on campus and deliver a consistent, high-quality extern experience.
- Partner cross-functionally to align the externship strategy with broader hiring and business goals.
- Establish program success metrics, reporting, and feedback loops that connect externship and campus activity to measurable hiring outcomes.
- Drive program excellence through operational ownership, managing budgets, troubleshooting challenges, tracking trends, and building the tools, processes, and standards hospitals need to execute consistently.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience working within the veterinary space preferred, including experience building or scaling a program from the ground up.
- Proven ability to take an ambiguous opportunity and turn it into a structured, scalable strategy.
- Proven ability to influence senior and cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to own multiple programs and priorities simultaneously.
- Confident presenting to large groups and representing VEG with credibility and warmth.
- Based in or able to regularly work from White Plains Headquarters (preferred).
Skills
- Program Management
- Strategy Development
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Organization
- Presentation Skills
- Budget Management
- Operational Excellence
Location
- White Plains Headquarters
Work Type
- In-person
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 – $130,000
Benefits
- Bonus
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits that start on day one
- Access to free therapy or counseling
- Paid parental leave, up to 12 weeks, at 100% of regular salary
- Inclusive fertility and family-building care
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous employee referral program
- Casual office attire
- Ability to bring your fur baby to work
- Cool VEG swag
- Food in the fridge
- Free lunches twice a week
- Company laptop
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement
About the Company
- In 2014, VEG was born with a mission to help people and their pets when they need it most by challenging norms and fixing the ER experience.
- VEG has expanded rapidly, with hospitals nationwide open 24/7/365, and created an ER experience that focuses on what our pets and pet parents really need.
- VEG has found a way to say YES so employees are empowered to achieve great things, grow in unexpected ways, and find a place where they truly belong.
- VEG is rethinking emergency care from every angle—from how hospitals are run to how people working inside them are supported.
- The headquarters team builds technology, recruits talent, and brings the brand to life, ensuring hospitals and people have everything they need.
- VEG is a 2025 and 2026 certified Great Place to Work®.
Equal Opportunity
- At VEG, diversity is not just a word—it's a strength that fuels innovation and kindness.
- VEG is devoted to creating an environment that reflects the diverse communities we serve—where different perspectives are not only welcomed but celebrated.
- We are focused on providing equitable opportunities for growth, promoting inclusive decision-making, and ensuring that everyone's perspective is considered.
- Saying yes to VEG means helping us build a culture where your unique experiences and background contribute to a shared vision: being the world's veterinary emergency company.
