In the last nine years, Prodigy Education has grown from 3,000 local users to more than 100 million registered users worldwide. As one of the fastest-growing ed-tech startups in North America with global impact, Prodigy connects students, parents, teachers, and school districts with resources that promote a lifelong love of learning. Anyone with an internet connection is welcome to create a free account for its renowned Math Game and try an effective and engaging math platform for grades 1 to 8. For more information visitwww.prodigygame.com, or @ProdigyGame on Twitter.
At Prodigy Education, we have an incredible team that works tirelessly to turn our goal of making education a human right into a reality. We are immensely grateful for our amazing team and all they do every day. We welcome people who share our passion to join our team, where you will have the opportunity to help an entire generation of students to LOVE learning.
Our passion is our mission - to help every student in the world love learning!Please note: During the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to keep all our candidates safe, Prodigy is hiring and on-boarding 100% remotely for the time being.Overview:
- What makes an educational product engaging for children? Is there a way to genuinely make learning fun, finding a balance between an immersive gaming experience and improving your grasp of an academic topic? How do we identify moments of frustration and failure in a student's learning progression through their in-game behavior, and select the most effective gamified intervention for levelling up a student's abilities? Here at Prodigy, our Game team is busy trying to answer these and other similar questions about how to best gamify math. We are working on new and interesting approaches to model our players (i.e., students), specifically in theintersection of learning andgaming.Your work will help us to improve our game and by extension how our students learn. The work we do at Prodigy can help shape a student's learning path early in life, and we take that very seriously and hope you will too.
Your Impact:
- Help our Game team better understand how users engage with our product
- Evaluate the quality and impact of game features for current and upcoming products
- Develop and evaluate models related to our game, improving user engagement and the quality of our product
- Help design, execute, and evaluate experiments (e.g., A/A, A/B, multivariate tests) to assist our Product teams in developing our game
Who You Are:
- Graduate degree inEducational Data Mining, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering,Neuroscience, Psychology, Behavioural Sciences,or related fields
- Research-level expertise in analyzing how games and / or how children learn
- At least 2 years of data analytics experience
- Proficiency in Python and SQL (bonus points for R)
- Experience working with machine learning algorithms and / or cloud platforms like AWS
- Ability to oversee and work simultaneously on different projects with a variety of timelines
- Ability to translate data insights into actionable steps
- Love for our mission of helping kids everywhere enjoy learning
Bonus Points for:
- Experience in cloud ecosystems and their data tooling (AWS, GCP)
- Experience with Spark
- Demonstrated ability to solve hard mathematical, algorithmic, and statistical problems
- Significant accomplishments that required both technical and strategic capabilities, such as research projects, open-source software contributions, and entrepreneurship
What We Offer:
- The opportunity to build a career of value and witness first hand the impact Prodigy has as the most engaging math platform in the world!
- A culture of transparency, where team members are involved in important conversations
- No micromanaging here! We believe in our employees skills and abilities, we encourage you to bring new innovative ideas to your team
- Full health benefits from day one (1) for you and your family, fully covered! Nothing is ever taken off your pay cheque
- We are a profitable company, with eligibility to participate in stock options for all employees
- Late or early riser? We understand! We offer flexible working hours that allow you to schedule your 8 hour day with a bit more flexibility. We do have core office hours, to ensure team members can be present for important meetings and department needs. Our core office hours are 10:30am - 3:00pm
- While we operate 100% remotely for the time being, our company culture and values remain at the core of everything we do. We are offering a number of remote-friendly activities such as:
- Virtual trivia
- Zoom meditation, stretching, and fitness sessions
- Daily remote challenges via Slack
- Virtual Prodigy Prepares cooking series featuring our