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ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We’re a hardworking team that’s passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
We are looking for an experienced and versatile Chemistry educator to serve as a Senior Content Creator. By offering high quality standards-aligned STEM lessons for free, we hope to empower millions of students to take charge of their futures and improve their lives.
As a Content Creator, you’ll leverage your expertise for what matters to deliver high quality learning content, robust coverage, and usage. You’ll own and drive content creation and curation on some courses, and contribute to similar efforts on courses driven by others. You won’t be working in isolation; you’ll be working closely with other members of the content team, other teams at KA, and external contributors.
Our content team includes the content creators from around the world who make our videos, articles, and practice questions. Today, our courses include nearly every math topic from K-14, science and humanities content covering high school and early college, test prep for several national exams, and much more! In the years ahead, we want to double down on making our courses great in classrooms and help push online education to the next level.
What you’ll do:
• * Work with the content team to expand our STEM courses by leveraging market research, your subject matter expertise, and your understanding of learner needs
• Develop course scopes and sequences, including units, lessons, and content assets (articles, videos, and exercises)
• Create and curate high quality content on schedule, designing and developing new standards-aligned exercises and articles, leveraging pre-existing resources from Khan Academy and third parties, and scripting (and possibly recording) engaging lesson videos
• Be accountable for content from any contractors and 3rd parties used to build out the courses you’re working on
• Track the performance and usage of content in the courses in your purview
• Leverage analytics, community features, and campaigns to attract and retain learners
• Learn and use our content management system to improve existing courses and build new courses
• Act as an editorial expert by reviewing new content, participating in the maintenance of existing content, and working with partners
• Contribute to the long-term strategic direction of Khan Academy’s content efforts by improving upon our processes around content sourcing, sharing insights with other members of the team, and advocating for learners
WHAT YOU BRING
• Proven ability to create high-impact learning content in your discipline (5+ years of content development experience in high school level Chemistry).
• Strong understanding of how students like to learn and insight into common misconceptions (5+ years of relevant teaching/tutoring experience).
• Experience and aptitude working with multiple standards sets (e.g. NGSS, CCSS, State Standards) to ensure coverage and alignment during course development and curation.
• Desire to teach at scale, engage with a broad array of learners, and question your assumptions about what's most important for learners
• Desire to leverage online tools to publish quickly, gather user feedback, and iterate on content
• Highly analytical and able to make tough prioritization calls in service of most critical metrics
• An entrepreneurial mindset, including a high tolerance for ambiguity, a penchant for experimentation, and a bias toward action
• Strong interest in building replicable systems and minimizing reinvention of the wheel
• Experience leading collaborative work on time-sensitive projects
• Impeccable command of written communication; an energetic can do attitude as a fluent and efficient content creator, a keen editorial eye for high quality text in exercises and articles, and a knack for empowering, supportive peer review.
• Meticulous attention to detail and time management skills
• Project management skills (e.g. fluent with Google docs and spreadsheets and other tools) and a willingness to learn new tools
• A passion for education and a desire to change the world
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $100-125k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations.For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location.
HOW TO APPLY
In addition to submitting a resume, please include a brief cover letter highlighting your most relevant experience and explaining why you’re interested in this job.
MORE ABOUT US
• Sal’s TED talk from 2011
• Sal’s TED talk from 2015
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We’re a hardworking team that’s passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
We are looking for an experienced and versatile Chemistry educator to serve as a Senior Content Creator. By offering high quality standards-aligned STEM lessons for free, we hope to empower millions of students to take charge of their futures and improve their lives.
As a Content Creator, you’ll leverage your expertise for what matters to deliver high quality learning content, robust coverage, and usage. You’ll own and drive content creation and curation on some courses, and contribute to similar efforts on courses driven by others. You won’t be working in isolation; you’ll be working closely with other members of the content team, other teams at KA, and external contributors.
Our content team includes the content creators from around the world who make our videos, articles, and practice questions. Today, our courses include nearly every math topic from K-14, science and humanities content covering high school and early college, test prep for several national exams, and much more! In the years ahead, we want to double down on making our courses great in classrooms and help push online education to the next level.
What you’ll do:
• * Work with the content team to expand our STEM courses by leveraging market research, your subject matter expertise, and your understanding of learner needs
• Develop course scopes and sequences, including units, lessons, and content assets (articles, videos, and exercises)
• Create and curate high quality content on schedule, designing and developing new standards-aligned exercises and articles, leveraging pre-existing resources from Khan Academy and third parties, and scripting (and possibly recording) engaging lesson videos
• Be accountable for content from any contractors and 3rd parties used to build out the courses you’re working on
• Track the performance and usage of content in the courses in your purview
• Leverage analytics, community features, and campaigns to attract and retain learners
• Learn and use our content management system to improve existing courses and build new courses
• Act as an editorial expert by reviewing new content, participating in the maintenance of existing content, and working with partners
• Contribute to the long-term strategic direction of Khan Academy’s content efforts by improving upon our processes around content sourcing, sharing insights with other members of the team, and advocating for learners
WHAT YOU BRING
• Proven ability to create high-impact learning content in your discipline (5+ years of content development experience in high school level Chemistry).
• Strong understanding of how students like to learn and insight into common misconceptions (5+ years of relevant teaching/tutoring experience).
• Experience and aptitude working with multiple standards sets (e.g. NGSS, CCSS, State Standards) to ensure coverage and alignment during course development and curation.
• Desire to teach at scale, engage with a broad array of learners, and question your assumptions about what's most important for learners
• Desire to leverage online tools to publish quickly, gather user feedback, and iterate on content
• Highly analytical and able to make tough prioritization calls in service of most critical metrics
• An entrepreneurial mindset, including a high tolerance for ambiguity, a penchant for experimentation, and a bias toward action
• Strong interest in building replicable systems and minimizing reinvention of the wheel
• Experience leading collaborative work on time-sensitive projects
• Impeccable command of written communication; an energetic can do attitude as a fluent and efficient content creator, a keen editorial eye for high quality text in exercises and articles, and a knack for empowering, supportive peer review.
• Meticulous attention to detail and time management skills
• Project management skills (e.g. fluent with Google docs and spreadsheets and other tools) and a willingness to learn new tools
• A passion for education and a desire to change the world
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $100-125k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations.For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location.
HOW TO APPLY
In addition to submitting a resume, please include a brief cover letter highlighting your most relevant experience and explaining why you’re interested in this job.
MORE ABOUT US
• Sal’s TED talk from 2011
• Sal’s TED talk from 2015
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
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About Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we're hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing
About Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we're hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We're a hardworking team that's passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On our infrastructure team, we currently have 2 open roles. Both are Senior Fullstack/Infrastructure focused in general, but specifically one role is focused on Security and the other on Reliability.
For Reliability:
• Research, define, and implement metrics to measure our distributed system's cost, reliability and performance in order to keep our engineering teams focused on the most crucial work that will support millions of learners and teachers.
• Enhance system observability by providing tools and dashboards for our engineering teams.
• Work across engineering teams and the broader organization to identify, define and promote engineering best practices around topics like incident management process, logging, and error handling.
• Explore and implement chaos engineering principles into our testing processes.
For Security:
• Work with other software engineers in all parts of the organization to address security issues.
• Resolve security bugs in the Khan Academy web application.
• Build new features to support security goals.
• Help where needed. Bring your own creativity to both solutions you implement and new ideas to improve Khan Academy's security posture.
• Collaborate with our infrastructure teams, legal team, community support team, and community volunteers.
• Configure security tools to better protect or inform us.
• Connect with pentesters, auditors, and other external partners as part of our regular security assessment program.
We strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently, we build with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies when they'll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is "Cultivate Learning Mindsets", so for us, it's important that we're working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual, in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their "learning edge".
You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:
• How Khan Academy Successfully Handled 2.5x Traffic in a Week
• Where Go and GraphQL collide: Behind the curtain with genqlient
• Half a million lines of Go
• Why we switched to Airflow for pipeline orchestration
• Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
• Go + Services = One Goliath Project
What You Bring
• 5+ years of experience building and supporting highly scalable web services handling large volumes of requests per second, and working with distributed, eventually-consistent databases.
• Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects.
• Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
• Experience building and maintaining complex software. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
• Empathy for learners around the world. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You're motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world.
• Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.
WE WELCOME
Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don't require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won't be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
Perks And Benefits
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries and annual bonuses
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $146k -185k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations.For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location.
More About Us
• Sal's TED talk from 2011
• Sal's TED talk from 2015
• Our team
Our Company Values
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren't afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status Show more details...
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we're hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We're a hardworking team that's passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On our infrastructure team, we currently have 2 open roles. Both are Senior Fullstack/Infrastructure focused in general, but specifically one role is focused on Security and the other on Reliability.
For Reliability:
• Research, define, and implement metrics to measure our distributed system's cost, reliability and performance in order to keep our engineering teams focused on the most crucial work that will support millions of learners and teachers.
• Enhance system observability by providing tools and dashboards for our engineering teams.
• Work across engineering teams and the broader organization to identify, define and promote engineering best practices around topics like incident management process, logging, and error handling.
• Explore and implement chaos engineering principles into our testing processes.
For Security:
• Work with other software engineers in all parts of the organization to address security issues.
• Resolve security bugs in the Khan Academy web application.
• Build new features to support security goals.
• Help where needed. Bring your own creativity to both solutions you implement and new ideas to improve Khan Academy's security posture.
• Collaborate with our infrastructure teams, legal team, community support team, and community volunteers.
• Configure security tools to better protect or inform us.
• Connect with pentesters, auditors, and other external partners as part of our regular security assessment program.
We strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently, we build with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies when they'll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is "Cultivate Learning Mindsets", so for us, it's important that we're working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual, in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their "learning edge".
You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:
• How Khan Academy Successfully Handled 2.5x Traffic in a Week
• Where Go and GraphQL collide: Behind the curtain with genqlient
• Half a million lines of Go
• Why we switched to Airflow for pipeline orchestration
• Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
• Go + Services = One Goliath Project
What You Bring
• 5+ years of experience building and supporting highly scalable web services handling large volumes of requests per second, and working with distributed, eventually-consistent databases.
• Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects.
• Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
• Experience building and maintaining complex software. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
• Empathy for learners around the world. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You're motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world.
• Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.
WE WELCOME
Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don't require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won't be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
Perks And Benefits
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries and annual bonuses
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $146k -185k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations.For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location.
More About Us
• Sal's TED talk from 2011
• Sal's TED talk from 2015
• Our team
Our Company Values
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren't afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status Show more details...
via LinkedIn
posted_at: 16 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 146K–185K a yearwork_from_home: 1
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
THE ROLE
The role of a security engineer is critical to Khan Academy’s overall success. The security engineering team works across our product and infrastructure on topics including web application security, confidential vulnerability disclosure and resolution, security protection and monitoring, and safeguarding personal data. This work directly contributes to the privacy and security of all of Khan Academy's learners. This work is mostly back end work (mostly Go), but building new security features can often be full stack (React and GraphQL). As a security engineer, you will:
• Take on world-changing challenges guided by our Engineering Principles – some of which have never been solved before.
• Work with other software engineers in all parts of the organization to address security issues.
• Resolve security bugs in the Khan Academy web application.
• Build new features to support security goals.
• Help where needed. Bring your own creativity to both solutions you implement and new ideas to improve Khan Academy’s security posture.
• Collaborate with our infrastructure teams, legal team, community support team, and community volunteers.
• Configure security tools to better protect or inform us.
• Connect with pentesters, auditors, and other external partners as part of our regular security assessment program.
• Have opportunities to contribute to open source! We ❤️ open source, and we give back to the community whenever we can.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 5+ years of experience as a Security, Infrastructure, or Software Engineer interested in security software, systems, and processes.
• Familiarity with security concepts such as authentication, role-based access control/IAM, and incident response.
• Experience with code development and debugging on macOS/Linux platforms using Git/GitHub, Jira/Confluence, shell programming, and other CLI tools.
• Good understanding of cloud development and engineering.
• Experience working with a team.
• Desired experience with security monitoring and alerting.
• Desired experience with web application firewalls (WAFs) and DDoS protection.
• Familiarity with application scanning and vulnerability management is a plus.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Good oral and written communication skills, comfortable communicating with groups of people when needed.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $146k-$195k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations.For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location Show more details...
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
THE ROLE
The role of a security engineer is critical to Khan Academy’s overall success. The security engineering team works across our product and infrastructure on topics including web application security, confidential vulnerability disclosure and resolution, security protection and monitoring, and safeguarding personal data. This work directly contributes to the privacy and security of all of Khan Academy's learners. This work is mostly back end work (mostly Go), but building new security features can often be full stack (React and GraphQL). As a security engineer, you will:
• Take on world-changing challenges guided by our Engineering Principles – some of which have never been solved before.
• Work with other software engineers in all parts of the organization to address security issues.
• Resolve security bugs in the Khan Academy web application.
• Build new features to support security goals.
• Help where needed. Bring your own creativity to both solutions you implement and new ideas to improve Khan Academy’s security posture.
• Collaborate with our infrastructure teams, legal team, community support team, and community volunteers.
• Configure security tools to better protect or inform us.
• Connect with pentesters, auditors, and other external partners as part of our regular security assessment program.
• Have opportunities to contribute to open source! We ❤️ open source, and we give back to the community whenever we can.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 5+ years of experience as a Security, Infrastructure, or Software Engineer interested in security software, systems, and processes.
• Familiarity with security concepts such as authentication, role-based access control/IAM, and incident response.
• Experience with code development and debugging on macOS/Linux platforms using Git/GitHub, Jira/Confluence, shell programming, and other CLI tools.
• Good understanding of cloud development and engineering.
• Experience working with a team.
• Desired experience with security monitoring and alerting.
• Desired experience with web application firewalls (WAFs) and DDoS protection.
• Familiarity with application scanning and vulnerability management is a plus.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Good oral and written communication skills, comfortable communicating with groups of people when needed.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $146k-$195k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations.For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location Show more details...
via Tarta.ai
posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We’re a hardworking team that’s passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to deliver engaging and efficacious K-14 learning solutions, particularly focusing first on learners in the classroom and secondarily on non-classroom learners experiences.
The Senior Product Manager will:
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features. and product experiences
• Clearly articulate what and who we’re solving for
• Deliver and maintain clear product requirements & a roadmap that makes sense across functional plans and schedules
• Optimize trade-offs between adding more value and getting to releases faster.
• Coordinate work with design and engineering teams to guide products from concept through launch
• Ensure products and releases are launched smoothly and on schedule
• Contribute to product vision and product strategy to help drive impact and usage.
• Use both qualitative and quantitative feedback to develop key user insights and drive product improvements
• Measure key results against project objectives.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 5+ years experience in product management
• Deep passion for what makes great educational technology as well as a desire to help Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
• Knowledge of K-12 users and stakeholders is essential
• Proven history of managing and shipping successful software products with cross-functional teams, at scale, including outside U.S., to the rest of the world
• Deep empathy for learners around the world and a curiosity about what makes a great learning experience. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You’re motivated to learn new things, experiment, and share what you learn with the world
• Strong experience with using data, metrics, and analysis to drive produce decisions
• Experience designing & building a platform with desktop, mobile, and accessibility in mind.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate a vision and strategy
• Experience working closely with engineers and designers on technical, architectural problems
• Basic knowledge about machine learning and/or technical experience with data management and analytics is a plus
• Understanding and appreciation of Mastery Learning is a plus
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
MORE ABOUT US
• Sal’s TED talk from 2011
• Sal’s TED talk from 2015
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We’re a hardworking team that’s passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to deliver engaging and efficacious K-14 learning solutions, particularly focusing first on learners in the classroom and secondarily on non-classroom learners experiences.
The Senior Product Manager will:
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features. and product experiences
• Clearly articulate what and who we’re solving for
• Deliver and maintain clear product requirements & a roadmap that makes sense across functional plans and schedules
• Optimize trade-offs between adding more value and getting to releases faster.
• Coordinate work with design and engineering teams to guide products from concept through launch
• Ensure products and releases are launched smoothly and on schedule
• Contribute to product vision and product strategy to help drive impact and usage.
• Use both qualitative and quantitative feedback to develop key user insights and drive product improvements
• Measure key results against project objectives.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 5+ years experience in product management
• Deep passion for what makes great educational technology as well as a desire to help Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
• Knowledge of K-12 users and stakeholders is essential
• Proven history of managing and shipping successful software products with cross-functional teams, at scale, including outside U.S., to the rest of the world
• Deep empathy for learners around the world and a curiosity about what makes a great learning experience. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You’re motivated to learn new things, experiment, and share what you learn with the world
• Strong experience with using data, metrics, and analysis to drive produce decisions
• Experience designing & building a platform with desktop, mobile, and accessibility in mind.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate a vision and strategy
• Experience working closely with engineers and designers on technical, architectural problems
• Basic knowledge about machine learning and/or technical experience with data management and analytics is a plus
• Understanding and appreciation of Mastery Learning is a plus
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
MORE ABOUT US
• Sal’s TED talk from 2011
• Sal’s TED talk from 2015
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
via LinkedIn
posted_at: 16 days agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 146K–185K a yearwork_from_home: 1
THE ROLE
Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On the Product team, you might work on projects such as...
• Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly.
• Partnering with public school districts with a high
THE ROLE
Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On the Product team, you might work on projects such as...
• Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly.
• Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us.
• Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.
We are a remote-first organization and we strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently, we build with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies when they’ll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is “Cultivate Learning Mindsets”, so for us, it’s important that we’re working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual, in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their “learning edge”.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 5+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app. In particular, you have built and maintained scalable backend services, as well as complex, stateful frontend user interfaces.
• Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects.
• Experience building and maintaining complex software. You’ll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You’ll write testable, quality code. You’ll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
• Experience using Machine Learning to build products a plus.
• Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
• Empathy for learners around the world. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You’re motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world.
• Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.
WE WELCOME
Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries and annual bonuses
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $160k-185k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations. For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location Show more details...
Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On the Product team, you might work on projects such as...
• Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly.
• Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us.
• Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.
We are a remote-first organization and we strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently, we build with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies when they’ll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is “Cultivate Learning Mindsets”, so for us, it’s important that we’re working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual, in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their “learning edge”.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 5+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app. In particular, you have built and maintained scalable backend services, as well as complex, stateful frontend user interfaces.
• Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects.
• Experience building and maintaining complex software. You’ll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You’ll write testable, quality code. You’ll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
• Experience using Machine Learning to build products a plus.
• Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
• Empathy for learners around the world. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You’re motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world.
• Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.
WE WELCOME
Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries and annual bonuses
• Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.
For this position, our hiring salary range is $160k-185k USD. This is determined by several factors including experience and skills, regular job market evaluations, and location. In an effort to maintain competitive market rates, these ranges reflect the minimum and maximum targets across all locations. For more information, your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your desired location Show more details...
via Tapwage
schedule_type: Full-time
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We’re a hardworking team that’s passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
Imagine being a teacher in Sarasota, Florida, almost three years after the pandemic started, with a classroom full of 6th graders who haven’t had a normal year of school or learning since 2019. It’s the reality of so many educators and students who use Khan Academy – and our team is uniquely positioned to help them when they need it most.
We have no end of fascinating challenges that can only be solved with a deep empathy for our users, diligent product & design thinking, and a strong drive to make a positive impact. Some questions we’re working on answering right now are:
- How do we empower teachers who are dealing with the impact that the pandemic had on learning?
- How do we help students with learning gaps catch up to their grade level?
- How do we center schools serving historically under-resourced communities in our product design and development?
- How do we reach more school districts so our learning experience gets used in more classrooms?
- …and more
The best part? Our work matters: [catch Sal talking to CNBC about low math and reading test scores](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-CaZ87_E1eJiKKFAReGdsMG-KJrw72qo3HZIPJJMmQ/edit#:~:text=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/10/24/khan-academy-ceo-on-low-math-and-reading-test-scores.html?&qsearchterm=SAL%20KHAN).
In this role, you will act as the design manager for the Learner Experience team, leading a small group of product designers working on experiences for in-classroom learning. You will play a vital player-coach role on an inclusive, collaborative, small but mighty Design team, helping us shape and fulfill the mission of the organization: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. This role is roughly 70% individual contributions, 30% people management and leadership.
Designers have been in leadership roles here, including at the executive level, for a long time. This has made Design a keystone in the way we “deliver wow” (one of our values), and means that you’ll never have to justify the importance of design.
We genuinely care about people and value compassion in our everyday interactions. You’ll be able to be yourself, feel valued, supported, learn and grow, no matter how experienced you are. Even if you don’t check every box (no one does), we encourage you to apply.
What you'll do:
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Brand, Data and other departments to shape an inspiring vision and strategy for the future of our in-classroom experience.
- Own the end-to-end design strategy and solutions for high-profile, complex projects – from IA to wireframes to user flows to high-fidelity mockups to clickable prototypes, and everything in between.
- Set a standard of operational excellence by driving the design side of projects effectively through project management, clear communication, and a focus on outcomes.
- Validate ideas throughout the lifecycle of the project by partnering with UX Research, incorporating insights into design iterations and helping translate learnings into product decisions.
- Build alignment across diverse teams by successfully presenting ideas to a range of teams and stakeholders across Khan Academy.
- Act as a player-coach by managing a small group of 3 experienced, high-performing designers who contribute work to your product group.
- Maintain weekly 1:1s with your reports to understand how they are doing and help them ship the best work of their careers.
- Play an active role in the growth of your reports, collaborate with them on amplifying their strengths and working on areas for development.
- Provide regular feedback to your reports during 1:1s and on Slack (our primary communication tool), as well as quarterly performance reviews.
- Cultivate a growth mindset (another one of our values) by contributing to design best practices for organizational needs such as career ladders, design critique, integrating our brand into the product, and more.
- Write about, present, and share what you have learned, both internally and with the wider Design community via our blog and industry events.
WHAT YOU BRING
- You have at least 6 years of relevant experience as an individual contributor on an in-house product design team, and at least 1 year of experience as a people manager of product/UX designers.
- You have the ability to juggle ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects.
- You are a critical participant in design reviews, modeling what it looks like to deliver effective feedback to strengthen design work, as well as soliciting feedback at every step of the process.
- You are strong across interaction design, prototyping, and information architecture, with some experience in user research, visual design, co-designing, and facilitating design sprints.
- You have experience designing mobile and web consumer products at scale. Bonus: you also have experience designing for ages 8 to 18, for e-learning/edtech products, or with complex user flows and data visualizations.
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners, internally and externally.
- You are comfortable in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments that run similar to a startup, where you regularly interact with and gather feedback from Senior Leadership.
- You are scrappy, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast.
- You know how to build strong relationships cross-functionally and bring people into the conversation when their input and buy-in is crucial.
- You bring a lean approach to product design and regularly ask yourself: How do we learn quickly and ship regularly? What’s the most concise experience we can deliver that still provides value?
Qualities we value in ourselves, and those who join our team:
- Introspective, mature, and emotionally intelligent, with excellent communication skills.
- Invested in your own growth and the growth of our Design team.
- Proactively seek out the people/information you need to move work forward and unblock yourself.
- High comfort level working within a strong product and pedagogical vision.
- Able to balance the immediate tactical needs of helping deliver and ship features with scouting ahead for what’s next.
- Willing to roll your sleeves up and pitch in when a project goes off-script.
- Passionate about education and designing engaging learning experiences, deeply curious about how and why people learn.
NOTE: Submitting a portfolio with your application is required. We're looking for a portfolio that highlights your background designing digital product experiences with outstanding quality, clearly defines your role and impact, includes both visuals and explanations, and provides enough context that someone can browse through it and grasp the problem and solution you developed, without having questions about how you did it.[Click here for a description of how you can prepare for the portfolio review component of our interview process.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LKiTIcsWfUVxTWjcGcXbSd8w5gLoeQdHD1MaBbVFMk/edit)
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
- Competitive salaries
- Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
- Generous parental leave
- A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
- The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
- Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
- And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
MORE ABOUT US
The Design Team is a diverse and close-knit group, spanning many disciplines, who are passionate about designing for the complexities of education. We are driven by our dedication to learners, our craft, and nurturing our unique, low-ego, playful, and rigorous culture. We listen carefully, think deeply, and move quickly, to help millions of learners all over the world. Join us.
- [Sal’s TED talk from 2011](http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education)
- [Sal’s TED talk from 2015](http://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores)
- Our full team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we’re hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We’re a hardworking team that’s passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
Imagine being a teacher in Sarasota, Florida, almost three years after the pandemic started, with a classroom full of 6th graders who haven’t had a normal year of school or learning since 2019. It’s the reality of so many educators and students who use Khan Academy – and our team is uniquely positioned to help them when they need it most.
We have no end of fascinating challenges that can only be solved with a deep empathy for our users, diligent product & design thinking, and a strong drive to make a positive impact. Some questions we’re working on answering right now are:
- How do we empower teachers who are dealing with the impact that the pandemic had on learning?
- How do we help students with learning gaps catch up to their grade level?
- How do we center schools serving historically under-resourced communities in our product design and development?
- How do we reach more school districts so our learning experience gets used in more classrooms?
- …and more
The best part? Our work matters: [catch Sal talking to CNBC about low math and reading test scores](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-CaZ87_E1eJiKKFAReGdsMG-KJrw72qo3HZIPJJMmQ/edit#:~:text=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/10/24/khan-academy-ceo-on-low-math-and-reading-test-scores.html?&qsearchterm=SAL%20KHAN).
In this role, you will act as the design manager for the Learner Experience team, leading a small group of product designers working on experiences for in-classroom learning. You will play a vital player-coach role on an inclusive, collaborative, small but mighty Design team, helping us shape and fulfill the mission of the organization: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. This role is roughly 70% individual contributions, 30% people management and leadership.
Designers have been in leadership roles here, including at the executive level, for a long time. This has made Design a keystone in the way we “deliver wow” (one of our values), and means that you’ll never have to justify the importance of design.
We genuinely care about people and value compassion in our everyday interactions. You’ll be able to be yourself, feel valued, supported, learn and grow, no matter how experienced you are. Even if you don’t check every box (no one does), we encourage you to apply.
What you'll do:
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Brand, Data and other departments to shape an inspiring vision and strategy for the future of our in-classroom experience.
- Own the end-to-end design strategy and solutions for high-profile, complex projects – from IA to wireframes to user flows to high-fidelity mockups to clickable prototypes, and everything in between.
- Set a standard of operational excellence by driving the design side of projects effectively through project management, clear communication, and a focus on outcomes.
- Validate ideas throughout the lifecycle of the project by partnering with UX Research, incorporating insights into design iterations and helping translate learnings into product decisions.
- Build alignment across diverse teams by successfully presenting ideas to a range of teams and stakeholders across Khan Academy.
- Act as a player-coach by managing a small group of 3 experienced, high-performing designers who contribute work to your product group.
- Maintain weekly 1:1s with your reports to understand how they are doing and help them ship the best work of their careers.
- Play an active role in the growth of your reports, collaborate with them on amplifying their strengths and working on areas for development.
- Provide regular feedback to your reports during 1:1s and on Slack (our primary communication tool), as well as quarterly performance reviews.
- Cultivate a growth mindset (another one of our values) by contributing to design best practices for organizational needs such as career ladders, design critique, integrating our brand into the product, and more.
- Write about, present, and share what you have learned, both internally and with the wider Design community via our blog and industry events.
WHAT YOU BRING
- You have at least 6 years of relevant experience as an individual contributor on an in-house product design team, and at least 1 year of experience as a people manager of product/UX designers.
- You have the ability to juggle ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects.
- You are a critical participant in design reviews, modeling what it looks like to deliver effective feedback to strengthen design work, as well as soliciting feedback at every step of the process.
- You are strong across interaction design, prototyping, and information architecture, with some experience in user research, visual design, co-designing, and facilitating design sprints.
- You have experience designing mobile and web consumer products at scale. Bonus: you also have experience designing for ages 8 to 18, for e-learning/edtech products, or with complex user flows and data visualizations.
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners, internally and externally.
- You are comfortable in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments that run similar to a startup, where you regularly interact with and gather feedback from Senior Leadership.
- You are scrappy, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast.
- You know how to build strong relationships cross-functionally and bring people into the conversation when their input and buy-in is crucial.
- You bring a lean approach to product design and regularly ask yourself: How do we learn quickly and ship regularly? What’s the most concise experience we can deliver that still provides value?
Qualities we value in ourselves, and those who join our team:
- Introspective, mature, and emotionally intelligent, with excellent communication skills.
- Invested in your own growth and the growth of our Design team.
- Proactively seek out the people/information you need to move work forward and unblock yourself.
- High comfort level working within a strong product and pedagogical vision.
- Able to balance the immediate tactical needs of helping deliver and ship features with scouting ahead for what’s next.
- Willing to roll your sleeves up and pitch in when a project goes off-script.
- Passionate about education and designing engaging learning experiences, deeply curious about how and why people learn.
NOTE: Submitting a portfolio with your application is required. We're looking for a portfolio that highlights your background designing digital product experiences with outstanding quality, clearly defines your role and impact, includes both visuals and explanations, and provides enough context that someone can browse through it and grasp the problem and solution you developed, without having questions about how you did it.[Click here for a description of how you can prepare for the portfolio review component of our interview process.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LKiTIcsWfUVxTWjcGcXbSd8w5gLoeQdHD1MaBbVFMk/edit)
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
- Competitive salaries
- Ample paid time off as needed – we are about getting things done, not face time
- Generous parental leave
- A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
- The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
- Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
- And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
MORE ABOUT US
The Design Team is a diverse and close-knit group, spanning many disciplines, who are passionate about designing for the complexities of education. We are driven by our dedication to learners, our craft, and nurturing our unique, low-ego, playful, and rigorous culture. We listen carefully, think deeply, and move quickly, to help millions of learners all over the world. Join us.
- [Sal’s TED talk from 2011](http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education)
- [Sal’s TED talk from 2015](http://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores)
- Our full team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
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ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we're hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing
ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we're hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We're a hardworking team that's passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
Imagine being a teacher in Sarasota, Florida, almost three years after the pandemic started, with a classroom full of 6th graders who haven't had a normal year of school or learning since 2019. It's the reality of so many educators and students who use Khan Academy - and our team is uniquely positioned to help them when they need it most.
We have no end of fascinating challenges that can only be solved with a deep empathy for our users, diligent product & UX thinking, and a strong drive to make a positive impact. Some questions we're working on answering right now are:
• How do we empower teachers who are dealing with the impact that the pandemic had on learning?
• How do we help students with learning gaps catch up to their grade level?
• How do we center schools serving historically under-resourced communities in our product design and development?
• How do we reach more school districts so our learning experience gets used in more classrooms?
• …and more
The best part? Our work matters: catch Sal talking to CNBC about low math and reading test scores.
In this role, you will contribute design solutions and strategy for SEO and growth projects. You will also collaborate with the SEO Manager, PMs and other designers on improving top of funnel metrics from awareness to activation. You will play a vital role on an inclusive, collaborative, small but mighty Design team, helping us shape and fulfill the mission of the organization: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Designers have been in leadership roles here, including at the executive level, for a long time. This has made Design a keystone in the way we "deliver wow" (one of our values), and means that you'll never have to justify the importance of design.
We genuinely care about people and value compassion in our everyday interactions. You'll be able to be yourself, feel valued, supported, learn and grow, no matter how experienced you are. Even if you don't check every box (no one does), we encourage you to apply.
What you'll do:
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Brand, Data and other departments to put our growth strategy into action and increase the number of learners and teachers that Khan Academy reaches every school year.
• Own the end-to-end design strategy and solutions for high-profile, complex projects - from IA to wireframes to user flows to high-fidelity mockups to clickable prototypes, and everything in between.
• Drive the design side of projects effectively through project management, clear communication, and goal setting.
• Validate ideas throughout the lifecycle of the project by partnering with UX Research, incorporating insights into design iterations and helping translate learnings into product decisions.
• Build alignment across diverse teams by successfully presenting ideas to a range of teams and stakeholders across Khan Academy.
• Cultivate a growth mindset (another one of our values) by mentoring designers and by contributing to design best practices for organizational needs such as career ladders, design critique, integrating our brand into the product, and more.
• Write about, present, and share what you have learned, both internally and with the wider Design community via our blog and industry events.
WHAT YOU BRING
• You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience as an individual contributor on an in-house product design team.
• You have experience as a designer on a Growth team, or you have case studies in your portfolio where you designed solutions that improved sign-up and activation.
• You have the ability to juggle ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects.
• You are an active participant in design reviews, both in delivering feedback to teammates to strengthen their work, but also in soliciting feedback at every step of the process.
• You are strong across interaction design, prototyping, and information architecture, with some experience in user research, visual design, co-designing, or facilitating design sprints.
• You have experience designing mobile and web consumer products at scale. Bonus: you also have experience designing for ages 8 to 18, or for e-learning/edtech products.
• You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners, internally and externally.
• You are comfortable in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments that run similar to a startup, where you regularly interact with and gather feedback from Senior Leadership.
• You are scrappy, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast.
• You know how to build strong relationships cross-functionally and bring people into the conversation when their input and buy-in is crucial.
• You bring a lean approach to product design and regularly ask yourself: how do we learn quickly and ship regularly? What's the most concise experience we can deliver that still provides value?
Qualities we value in Product Designers:
• Introspective, mature, and emotionally intelligent.
• Invested in your own growth and the growth of our Design team.
• Proactively seek out the people/information you need to move work forward and unblock yourself.
• High comfort level working within a strong product and pedagogical vision.
• Able to balance the immediate tactical needs of helping deliver and ship features with scouting ahead for what's next.
• Willing to roll your sleeves up and pitch in when a project goes off-script.
• Passionate about education and designing engaging learning experiences, deeply curious about how and why people learn.
NOTE: Submitting a portfolio with your application is required. We're looking for a portfolio that highlights your background designing digital product experiences with outstanding quality, clearly defines your role and impact, includes both visuals and explanations, and provides enough context that someone can browse through it and grasp the problem and solution you developed, without having questions about how you did it. Click here for a description of how you can prepare for the portfolio review component of our interview process.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed - we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
MORE ABOUT US
The Design Team is a diverse and close-knit group, spanning many disciplines, who are passionate about designing for the complexities of education. We are driven by our dedication to learners, our craft, and nurturing our unique, low-ego, playful, and rigorous culture. We listen carefully, think deeply, and move quickly, to help millions of learners all over the world. Join us.
• Sal's TED talk from 2011
• Sal's TED talk from 2015
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren't afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things - each of which aligns to our ambitious vision - so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply Show more details...
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already reach millions of students every month and are growing rapidly, and right now we're hard at work helping learners address any unfinished learning that the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused. We also know that not all communities have been impacted... equally by this pandemic, which makes our work focusing on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities even more important.
WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR COMMUNITY
Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life and so do we. We are fun, diverse, quirky people that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes people from academia and from high tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Valuing diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary for us to actualize our mission and truly impact the communities we serve. We believe that the best way to provide impactful education is to create a diverse team of people from different backgrounds, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and experiences. We're a hardworking team that's passionate about helping learners and teachers around the globe! We strive to be world class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
Imagine being a teacher in Sarasota, Florida, almost three years after the pandemic started, with a classroom full of 6th graders who haven't had a normal year of school or learning since 2019. It's the reality of so many educators and students who use Khan Academy - and our team is uniquely positioned to help them when they need it most.
We have no end of fascinating challenges that can only be solved with a deep empathy for our users, diligent product & UX thinking, and a strong drive to make a positive impact. Some questions we're working on answering right now are:
• How do we empower teachers who are dealing with the impact that the pandemic had on learning?
• How do we help students with learning gaps catch up to their grade level?
• How do we center schools serving historically under-resourced communities in our product design and development?
• How do we reach more school districts so our learning experience gets used in more classrooms?
• …and more
The best part? Our work matters: catch Sal talking to CNBC about low math and reading test scores.
In this role, you will contribute design solutions and strategy for SEO and growth projects. You will also collaborate with the SEO Manager, PMs and other designers on improving top of funnel metrics from awareness to activation. You will play a vital role on an inclusive, collaborative, small but mighty Design team, helping us shape and fulfill the mission of the organization: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Designers have been in leadership roles here, including at the executive level, for a long time. This has made Design a keystone in the way we "deliver wow" (one of our values), and means that you'll never have to justify the importance of design.
We genuinely care about people and value compassion in our everyday interactions. You'll be able to be yourself, feel valued, supported, learn and grow, no matter how experienced you are. Even if you don't check every box (no one does), we encourage you to apply.
What you'll do:
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Brand, Data and other departments to put our growth strategy into action and increase the number of learners and teachers that Khan Academy reaches every school year.
• Own the end-to-end design strategy and solutions for high-profile, complex projects - from IA to wireframes to user flows to high-fidelity mockups to clickable prototypes, and everything in between.
• Drive the design side of projects effectively through project management, clear communication, and goal setting.
• Validate ideas throughout the lifecycle of the project by partnering with UX Research, incorporating insights into design iterations and helping translate learnings into product decisions.
• Build alignment across diverse teams by successfully presenting ideas to a range of teams and stakeholders across Khan Academy.
• Cultivate a growth mindset (another one of our values) by mentoring designers and by contributing to design best practices for organizational needs such as career ladders, design critique, integrating our brand into the product, and more.
• Write about, present, and share what you have learned, both internally and with the wider Design community via our blog and industry events.
WHAT YOU BRING
• You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience as an individual contributor on an in-house product design team.
• You have experience as a designer on a Growth team, or you have case studies in your portfolio where you designed solutions that improved sign-up and activation.
• You have the ability to juggle ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects.
• You are an active participant in design reviews, both in delivering feedback to teammates to strengthen their work, but also in soliciting feedback at every step of the process.
• You are strong across interaction design, prototyping, and information architecture, with some experience in user research, visual design, co-designing, or facilitating design sprints.
• You have experience designing mobile and web consumer products at scale. Bonus: you also have experience designing for ages 8 to 18, or for e-learning/edtech products.
• You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners, internally and externally.
• You are comfortable in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments that run similar to a startup, where you regularly interact with and gather feedback from Senior Leadership.
• You are scrappy, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast.
• You know how to build strong relationships cross-functionally and bring people into the conversation when their input and buy-in is crucial.
• You bring a lean approach to product design and regularly ask yourself: how do we learn quickly and ship regularly? What's the most concise experience we can deliver that still provides value?
Qualities we value in Product Designers:
• Introspective, mature, and emotionally intelligent.
• Invested in your own growth and the growth of our Design team.
• Proactively seek out the people/information you need to move work forward and unblock yourself.
• High comfort level working within a strong product and pedagogical vision.
• Able to balance the immediate tactical needs of helping deliver and ship features with scouting ahead for what's next.
• Willing to roll your sleeves up and pitch in when a project goes off-script.
• Passionate about education and designing engaging learning experiences, deeply curious about how and why people learn.
NOTE: Submitting a portfolio with your application is required. We're looking for a portfolio that highlights your background designing digital product experiences with outstanding quality, clearly defines your role and impact, includes both visuals and explanations, and provides enough context that someone can browse through it and grasp the problem and solution you developed, without having questions about how you did it. Click here for a description of how you can prepare for the portfolio review component of our interview process.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed - we are about getting things done, not face time
• Generous parental leave
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant
• The ability to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life
MORE ABOUT US
The Design Team is a diverse and close-knit group, spanning many disciplines, who are passionate about designing for the complexities of education. We are driven by our dedication to learners, our craft, and nurturing our unique, low-ego, playful, and rigorous culture. We listen carefully, think deeply, and move quickly, to help millions of learners all over the world. Join us.
• Sal's TED talk from 2011
• Sal's TED talk from 2015
• Our team: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren't afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things - each of which aligns to our ambitious vision - so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
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