
Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that seamlessly connects experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, and at any time. It operates the largest tutoring and live instruction platform in the United States. Students can learn live online in 1:1, small group, and large format scaled classes in more than 3,000 different subjects, tests, and topics. Personalization and AI is woven throughout the customer experience and learners seek out the platform as a learning destination where they go to excel, be inspired, and foster their creativity.

Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that seamlessly connects experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, and at any time. It operates the largest tutoring and live instruction platform in the United States. Students can learn live online in 1:1, small group, and large format scaled classes in more than 3,000 different subjects, tests, and topics. Personalization and AI is woven throughout the customer experience and learners seek out the platform as a learning destination where they go to excel, be inspired, and foster their creativity.
What they do: Live online tutoring and classes across 3,000+ subjects (1:1, small group, large-format)
Scale: Largest tutoring/live instruction platform in the U.S.; reported 10M+ hours delivered
Founded: 2007
Total funding: $107M (reported total)
Education technology — making expert tutoring and live instruction accessible and personalized at scale.
2007
Education Technology
$50,000,000
Closed November 2015
$50,000,000
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and TCV participated
“Learn Capital; TCV; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative”
Overview of the role: We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our Marketplace Incentives, a key strategic growth lever in Nerdy's two-sided learning marketplace.
In this role, you'll own the design, experimentation, and rollout of incentive structures that reward tutors for delivering great learning outcomes and driving student retention. You'll use economic modeling, gamified UX, and behavioral analytics to test and optimize tutor-facing programs that shape marketplace supply-side behavior at scale.
About Nerdy: At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.
Fortune favors the bold. Join us.
How we compete:
If you're a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.
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Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy: At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:
The Bottom Line: If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what's next, you'll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn't a traditional corporate environment - it's a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.