Senior Strategy & Operations Manager, Khan Academy
Khan Academy Kids
$127.4-159.3k
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Nonprofit online education platform
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Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$127.4-159.3k
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in strategy consulting, product management, business development, or related fields (preferably in EdTech or early childhood education)
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into into clear and compelling written and verbal narratives and actionable solutions
- Experience in market research, financial modeling, and competitive analysis
- A strong entrepreneurial and self-starter mindset, with a willingness to roll up your sleeves to help the team get the work done
- Industry experience in early childhood education, ed-tech, and/or the non-profit sector preferred
- Bonus points for experience with AI speech recognition, curriculum development, language learning, and/or global education markets
- 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
- The Khan Academy Kids team is looking for a dynamic and driven Senior Strategy & Operations Manager to join our team
- As a Senior Strategy & Operations Manager, you will play an important role in defining and executing our product strategy and grow our impact on early childhood education
- You’ll work closely with leadership to identify market opportunities and drive high-impact initiatives as we explore new technologies and new products
- Strategic Analysis: Develop and refine strategies to expand our reach, enhance our products, and drive our impact
- Market Research & Competitive Analysis: Identify emerging trends, new technologies, learner needs, and competitive forces to inform product and content strategy
- Product Strategy: Define and refine product positioning to ensure product-market fit and differentiation
- Product Innovation: Stay ahead of technical and AI developments and learning innovations to inform product decisions. Work with product and engineering teams to evaluate and determine technical solutions
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage analytics to inform iterative improvements, optimize strategies, and ensure measurable impact
- Go-to-Market Strategies: Design and execute strategies for entering new markets and global regions, launching new products, and scaling existing initiatives
- Partnership Development: Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships to expand our impact globally
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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