Entry Level Continuous Improvement Manager Jobs
New grad continuous improvement manager jobs attract recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where a strong internship or coursework in process analysis can matter more than a long resume. Most openings are on-site and hybrid roles across Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, and Consulting & Professional Services, with employers like Safran, Misfits Market, and Axis Pipe and Tube hiring at this level now.
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Who We Are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Who You Are
You are a thoughtful and performance-driven coach who is passionate about helping teams grow through structured feedback, skill development, and continuous improvement. You have a strong ability to identify patterns in customer interactions, translate insights into practical coaching strategies, and partner with leaders to elevate the overall customer experience. You bring both analytical thinking and strong interpersonal skills to your work. You are comfortable working with data, quality insights, and customer feedback to identify opportunities for improvement. At the same time, you are energized by coaching individuals and teams, helping them build confidence, refine their approach, and consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences. You enjoy building programs that scale. Whether developing coaching frameworks, facilitating skill workshops, or partnering with managers to close performance gaps, you are motivated by seeing measurable improvements in both employee performance and customer satisfaction. You thrive in collaborative environments and work closely with Quality Assurance, Customer Insights, and CSO leadership to ensure that coaching initiatives align with broader customer experience goals. You are excited by the opportunity to help shape how continuous improvement is embedded across the organization.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Own targeted coaching programs driven by QA scoring, customer feedback, and CX metrics to improve performance beyond baseline expectations.
- Deliver structured 1:1 and group coaching focused on recurring themes, skill gaps, and behavioral trends identified through QA.
- Translate QA data into clear, actionable improvement plans for individuals, pods, and teams.
- Reinforce CX standards, expectations, and scoring methodology to ensure consistency and clarity across CSO.
- Partner with QA to ensure 100% of evaluated interactions receive follow-up coaching, reinforcement, or validation as appropriate.
- Identify where high-performing behaviors can be scaled, replicated, or operationalized across teams.
- Track coaching effectiveness and improvement lift over time (pre/post coaching analysis).
- Close the loop between QA findings, coaching actions, and CX outcomes.
- Design and maintain repeatable coaching frameworks, playbooks, and toolkits aligned to QA scoring criteria.
- Support enablement initiatives by contributing QA-driven insights to onboarding, refreshers, and skill-based training.
- Document best practices and improvement strategies in Confluence to support long-term scalability.
- Participate in and contribute to calibration sessions to ensure scoring consistency, fairness, and alignment across evaluators.
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Manager, Quality Assurance – Sales, your success will be driven by:
- Consultative Approach – You collaborate with sales stakeholders to understand team goals and design QA systems that align with their KPIs.
- Accountability – You treat quality as a cornerstone of sales success and are relentless in ensuring standards are upheld.
- Adaptability – You know that sales evolves rapidly and your QA program is agile enough to adapt as products, messaging, and buyer behaviors change.
- Solution-Orientation – You can identify performance gaps and implement scalable QA practices that help close them.
- Curiosity – You constantly explore new tools, methodologies, and data sources to improve the QA function.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Qualifications
- 2+ years in Customer Experience, Quality Assurance, Enablement, or Operations
- Demonstrated success in coaching performance improvement at scale
- Strong data fluency with the ability to interpret QA and CX metrics
- Experience working with QA platforms (MaestroQA preferred)
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and written communication skills
- Systems thinker with strong follow-through
- Comfortable operating independently while partnering cross-functionally
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $36.30 to $39.93 per hour. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
Who We Are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Who You Are
You are a thoughtful and performance-driven coach who is passionate about helping teams grow through structured feedback, skill development, and continuous improvement. You have a strong ability to identify patterns in customer interactions, translate insights into practical coaching strategies, and partner with leaders to elevate the overall customer experience. You bring both analytical thinking and strong interpersonal skills to your work. You are comfortable working with data, quality insights, and customer feedback to identify opportunities for improvement. At the same time, you are energized by coaching individuals and teams, helping them build confidence, refine their approach, and consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences. You enjoy building programs that scale. Whether developing coaching frameworks, facilitating skill workshops, or partnering with managers to close performance gaps, you are motivated by seeing measurable improvements in both employee performance and customer satisfaction. You thrive in collaborative environments and work closely with Quality Assurance, Customer Insights, and CSO leadership to ensure that coaching initiatives align with broader customer experience goals. You are excited by the opportunity to help shape how continuous improvement is embedded across the organization.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Own targeted coaching programs driven by QA scoring, customer feedback, and CX metrics to improve performance beyond baseline expectations.
- Deliver structured 1:1 and group coaching focused on recurring themes, skill gaps, and behavioral trends identified through QA.
- Translate QA data into clear, actionable improvement plans for individuals, pods, and teams.
- Reinforce CX standards, expectations, and scoring methodology to ensure consistency and clarity across CSO.
- Partner with QA to ensure 100% of evaluated interactions receive follow-up coaching, reinforcement, or validation as appropriate.
- Identify where high-performing behaviors can be scaled, replicated, or operationalized across teams.
- Track coaching effectiveness and improvement lift over time (pre/post coaching analysis).
- Close the loop between QA findings, coaching actions, and CX outcomes.
- Design and maintain repeatable coaching frameworks, playbooks, and toolkits aligned to QA scoring criteria.
- Support enablement initiatives by contributing QA-driven insights to onboarding, refreshers, and skill-based training.
- Document best practices and improvement strategies in Confluence to support long-term scalability.
- Participate in and contribute to calibration sessions to ensure scoring consistency, fairness, and alignment across evaluators.
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Manager, Quality Assurance – Sales, your success will be driven by:
- Consultative Approach – You collaborate with sales stakeholders to understand team goals and design QA systems that align with their KPIs.
- Accountability – You treat quality as a cornerstone of sales success and are relentless in ensuring standards are upheld.
- Adaptability – You know that sales evolves rapidly and your QA program is agile enough to adapt as products, messaging, and buyer behaviors change.
- Solution-Orientation – You can identify performance gaps and implement scalable QA practices that help close them.
- Curiosity – You constantly explore new tools, methodologies, and data sources to improve the QA function.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Qualifications
- 2+ years in Customer Experience, Quality Assurance, Enablement, or Operations
- Demonstrated success in coaching performance improvement at scale
- Strong data fluency with the ability to interpret QA and CX metrics
- Experience working with QA platforms (MaestroQA preferred)
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and written communication skills
- Systems thinker with strong follow-through
- Comfortable operating independently while partnering cross-functionally
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $36.30 to $39.93 per hour. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
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Entry Level Continuous Improvement Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level continuous improvement manager job?
Employers hiring at the entry level look for familiarity with process improvement methodologies like Lean or Six Sigma, even from coursework or a student project. A Yellow Belt certification, an internship in operations, or documented experience mapping workflows or reducing waste in any setting gives candidates a clear edge over applicants with no hands-on exposure to continuous improvement work.
Which companies hire entry level continuous improvement managers?
Companies hiring entry level continuous improvement managers right now include Safran, Misfits Market, and Axis Pipe and Tube, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Manufacturers, logistics providers, and healthcare systems are among the most active at this level, as they rely on junior staff to support process audits and improvement initiatives across their operations.
Are there remote entry level continuous improvement manager jobs?
Yes, though most entry level roles in this field are on-site or hybrid because the work involves direct observation of processes and equipment. About 0% of entry level continuous improvement manager openings are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, so candidates open to on-site work will find a significantly larger pool of available positions.
Are these new grad continuous improvement manager jobs?
Yes, many listings on this page are new grad and junior roles that welcome recent graduates with little or no professional experience. A new grad posting typically signals this by accepting zero to two years of experience, listing internships as qualifying background, or noting that a portfolio of academic or project-based process improvement work will be considered in place of full-time history.
Which industries hire the most entry level continuous improvement managers?
Entry Level continuous improvement manager roles concentrate in Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These sectors drive entry level hiring because they run high-volume operations where even incremental efficiency gains have measurable impact, making junior continuous improvement staff a cost-effective investment for organizations building out their process teams.