Senior Data Scientist, Khan Academy
Product Growth, 24 Months Fixed-Term
$137.9-155.1k
Canada pay range: $186,306 - $209,595 CAN
Nonprofit online education platform
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Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$137.9-155.1k
Canada pay range: $186,306 - $209,595 CAN
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for curious, passionate individuals who can apply their strong technical skills to mine for insights across our rich datasets, and work collaboratively across the organization to drive critical strategic decisions
- Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
- 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
- Background in applied math, statistics, economics, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in data science or analytics
- Proficient with statistical techniques (i.e., multiple regression, causal inference, AB testing, hypothesis testing) for real-world applications
- Advanced SQL foundations & ability to manipulate data using R or Python
- Compelling data storytelling and visualization (i.e. Looker) with the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders
- Strong business intuition & judgment, with a knack for asking the right questions to drive impact
- Prior experience working in the education industry is a plus
What the job involves
- Khan Academy is looking for a senior data scientist to play a critical role in our growing team
- This role will partner with our chief learning officer and product leadership team to drive engagement and improve student outcomes
- Partner with product teams to understand and help develop theories of action which describe testable hypotheses for the impact of new features
- Identify and measure success of initiatives through goal setting, forecasting, event instrumentation, monitoring, and ongoing analysis of core outcome metrics
- Perform exploratory analyses on our rich datasets to extract insights about our teacher & learner behavior and guide our decisions around product roadmap and investments
- Use your expertise with statistical techniques to quantify the impact of various features, programs, and interventions
- Share results of analyses to non-technical audiences in ways that help them develop insights about our offerings
- Contribute to the development of self-service analytics tools to enhance data access for the product team; work with our engineering teams to improve our tools and datasets
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
GRANT
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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