Head of Impact (Impact Leader)

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

Kiddom’s Head of Impact Leader ensures products and programs deliver on their promise; they are responsible for a consistent increase in product results, i.e. student growth and achievement on instructional programs and increased teacher confidence using Kiddom’s products. This person will build and lead an applied research team to implement continuous improvement strategies for Kiddom's products. They have demonstrable experience validating educational products involving models of student learning and measuring the trustworthiness of these products with teachers and learners. They will collaborate with data science team members to produce and validate machine learning and psychometric models that provide sound and trustworthy guidance for dosage. They will serve as a critical liaison with Kiddom's UX researchers, and other stakeholders providing guidance and substantive context for harmonizing model inferences and the user experiences that leverage them. And finally, they must think flexibly and creatively about research applications within specific product constraints and be able to clearly communicate ideas and findings to non-experts. 

In short, we’re looking for a person who resembles a scientist: their work is shaped by their own curiosity and a commitment to their organization’s success, and not restricted by traditional frameworks or best practices in research and evaluation. They will build and lead the Impact and Evaluation team at Kiddom.

You will...

• Increase overall product results, i.e. student growth and achievement on curricular programs and increased teacher confidence in using Kiddom’s products
• Lead the design and execution of validation tests and studies for Kiddom products and programs to validate impact in line with continuous improvement best practices. Coordinate with stakeholders (internal and external) to carry out validation studies.
• Collaborate with Kiddom’s CEO and CAO, data scientists, engineers, instructional designers, product managers, and SMEs to develop and refine products and programs.
• Apply a mixed-methods expertise to take advantage of different qualitative and quantitative research methods, including when and how to apply them during the product development and validation process.
• Go directly into classrooms (with or without support) to support validation work and observe product utilization, behaviors, etc. and to support
• Partner with Kiddom’s co-founders to offer guidance and leadership to colleagues in validation of educational technology products.
• Create detailed documentation of work results, including white papers, memos, and SOPs.
• Presents periodic tests and results to the CEO and CAO and other members of Kiddom leadership.
• Travel: Up to 20% travel required for business needs

What we're looking for...

• 7+ years of relevant experience, preferably in applied research developing and evaluating educational technology products.
• Doctorate in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, Educational Leadership, Research Methods, or a related technical field.
• Strong understanding of learning science as it applies to pK-12
• Familiarity with data warehouse design, development, and best practices
• Passion for education and a commitment to empowering educators and students through innovative solutions.
• Nice to have: Fluent in SQL and Python (or other scripting languages), comfortable with GIT (more important you know how to do good designs the data science team can help execute) 
• Bonus: Experience in applying both data-backed heuristics and machine-learning techniques to solve practical product problems
• Bonus: experience with knowledge graphs, NLP, or topic modeling

Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:

* Competitive salary

* Meaningful equity

* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

* One Medical membership (in participating locations)

* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)

* Paid holidays

* Paid bereavement leave

* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

* Commuter and FSA plans

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.