Technical Program Manager, Khan Academy
Assessments
$127.4-159.3k
Salary for applicants residing in Canada is $172,188 - $215,235 CAD
Nonprofit online education platform
Job no longer available
Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$127.4-159.3k
Salary for applicants residing in Canada is $172,188 - $215,235 CAD
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 project or program management experience in the edTech assessment space
- Proven experience wrangling multiple projects
- Experience working with engineering teams and communicating technical requirements or constraints to a variety of stakeholders
- Experience with the SDLC as it relates to building products
- Proficient in program and project management tools such as JIRA and Confluence
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written), as well as an eye for detailed documentation
- Excellent time management skills
- Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere”
- A desire to work on ambiguous, novel problems in an evolving space
- A positive growth mindset that is curious and energized to innovate and create something new for our students
- A bias to action
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) experienced in building products and release management who is passionate about education to help us execute on our innovative vision for assessments
- The TPM will connect the dots across different initiatives including content, item banking, reporting, and assessment experience to ensure we adhere to our vision
- The TPM will work closely with the Director of Assessments, the Senior Product Manager of Assessments, and the wider team to bring meaningful assessments to life
- Plan and manage the release of cross-functional technical projects specific to assessment
- Manage dependencies across the multiple teams contributing to the assessment program, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure successful releases
- Make recommendations about trade-offs when required to ensure overall program success
- Collaborate with content experts, psychometricians, product managers, engineers, and designers within and across teams to define problems and requirements, foresee potential challenges, and identify solutions
- Ensure tight communication about and alignment with goals across teams and audiences
- Maintain cross-functional program documentation, including key cross-functional decisions
- Own processes and tools for tracking the overall assessment program
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
GRANT
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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