Technical Program Manager, Khan Academy
Khanmigo Core Platform, 5 Month Contract
$120 USD per hour
Nonprofit online education platform
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Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120 USD per hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of Program Engineering or Product Management experience where you have successfully managed big data-focused programs (or multiple projects) from inception to execution
- Several years of hands-on experience in software development, with daily coding tasks (experience as a TPM building software platforms is an acceptable substitute)
- While this role does not involve daily coding, a technical background is essential for building a cutting-edge AI platform. Experience in AI/ML is preferred but not required
- Proficient in program/project management tools (e.g. Gantt charts, spreadsheets, JIRA, Confluence, presentations, etc.); comfortable collaborating in an online/cloud-based environment (e.g. Google Apps, Slack, etc.)
- The ability to think creatively and use data to solve ambiguous and complex problems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships and influence across multiple levels of the organization comprised of technical and non-technical individuals
- Excellent organization skills, acute attention to detail, ability to balance multiple tasks in an ever-changing environment
What the job involves
- As the temporary Technical Program Manager for Khanmigo Core Platform (5-month contract), you will be responsible for coordinating and balancing the priorities of internal "customer stakeholder" teams who are building Khanmigo experiences, partnering with Engineering and Product Management on aligning the roadmap
- Your efforts will streamline our processes and ensure our teams are aligned and productive, which will enable us to build the best products to serve our mission
- Coordinate with internal “customer stakeholder” teams, such as Tutor Platform, Literacy, Teacher Experience, to understand their needs and balance their priorities
- Manage platform capabilities, including text to speech and vision
- Oversee developer frameworks, such as our Evaluations Component library being built
- Provide necessary tools for prompt engineers' workflows
- Coordinate internal upgrades, aligning different teams onto the latest models
- Ensure that evaluation test cases for every activity across teams are met
- Collaborate with internal dependency teams like Data Infra to ensure our Evaluations Component data fits the shape expected by the Data Infra team for tools like Langfuse
- Manage coordination for Khanmigo-as-a-Service partners for 3rd party customers leveraging the Khanmigo Platform
Our take
Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides free online education materials, including teacher tools, instruction videos, and practice exercises to support users of all ages. It has over 10 million users a month and covers subjects all the way up to college level.
With nearly a quarter of American adults unable to use mathematics in daily life, Khan Academy’s interactive quizzes, instructional videos, and teacher tools are timely. Khan Academy started life as a series of educational YouTube videos, before building a full-scale platform after receiving an influx of donations from Silicon Valley philanthropists. This background has led it to embrace rather than reject the educational possibilities of new tech such as AI, with the founder regarding traditional institution's banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.
The company offers its tools completely for free, instead relying on donations and volunteers. A key focus is tackling wealth inequality in education. A partnership with the College Board (who produce entrance examinations for higher education) has made access to SAT test prep materials free for millions. 2024 saw a partnership with Microsoft for Khan Academy's Khanmigo product, now free to use for Microsoft customers.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2020
$3m
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Oct 2017
$3m
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Total funding: $16.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Dental insurance
- Optical insurance
- Life insurance
- Performance bonus
- 401K plan
- Family medical leave
- Diversity program
- Pet friendly workplace
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Caroline Hu Flexer
(CEO)Holds a BA and MArch in Architecture from Stanford and Harvard University. They also have an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and formerly co-founded Duck Duck Moose, a mobile educational platform for children.
Salman Khan
(Executive Director)They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.
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