Principal Product Manager, Khan Academy
District and Admin Experience
$152.9-191.1k
The salary listed is for US candidates for Canadian candidates the salary is $206,626 - $258,283 CAD
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Nonprofit online education platform
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Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$152.9-191.1k
The salary listed is for US candidates for Canadian candidates the salary is $206,626 - $258,283 CAD
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Deep passion for what makes a great educational technology as well as a desire to help Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere
- 7+ years experience in product management for edtech (especially K-12)
- Experience working with edtech integrations (LMS systems, etc) is a plus
- Proven history of managing and shipping successful software products with cross-functional teams, at scale, including outside U.S. to rest of world
- 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
- Strong data, metrics, and analysis skills
- Deep empathy for teachers and administrators around the world and a curiosity about what makes a great classroom experience
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to deliver engaging and efficacious K-14 learning solutions for schools and districts
- The primary focus of this role is managing product capabilities that help scale Khan Academy for Districts and specifically address the needs of district administrators in administering the product effectively for their district classrooms
- With the recent launch of Khanmigo and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology, this role will help harness the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities where applicable
- Establish the end-to-end vision and product strategy for district products
- Establish the end-to-end user experience for district admins (instructional leaders and IT admin), including 3-year vision/strategy
- Collaborate cross-functionally on delivery to create the desired user experience specifically for:
- Rostering & Operations - this is done by IT teams at the district, not instructional teams
- Administrator tasks - Admins do a lot of things to drive instruction. e.g. instructional coaching that required academic data to inform the session, instructional observations, analysis of instructional data to inform decisions (PL, core curriculum selection) etc
- Work in collaboration with other PMs to ensure that District needs are addressed across various product teams, and alignment of user experience across district admins, teachers and learners
- Product execution (including requirements elaboration, communication, alignment, research, roadmap ownership, managing trade-offs) that enables the team to have rapid iterations of build-measure-learn while ensuring stability of the enterprise product
- Ownership of outcomes related to Districts product and district admin experience
- Use both qualitative and quantitative feedback to develop key user insights and drive product improvements by being the voice of district admins
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 institutions' banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.
The company offers its tools completely for free, instead of 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 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)Holds a BA 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
(Co-Founder & Executive Director)They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.
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