Khan Academy

Khan Academy

Senior Efficacy Research and Psychometrics Analyst, Khan Kids (24 months fixed-term)

San Mateo, CA / Remote (Continental US + Hawaii + Canada Only) · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$138k-$155kDetected 21 days ago
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About the role

  • Khan Academy Kids is looking for a Senior Efficacy Research and Psychometrics Analyst (24 months fixed-term) to strengthen the evidence base behind our assessments and learning content for children in PreK through 2nd grade.
  • This role spans two complementary areas.
  • We are looking for someone with strong quantitative training - ideally in psychometrics, educational measurement, or a related field - who is energized by using rigorous evidence to improve learning experiences for young children.

Responsibilities

  • Lead our psychometric research partnership: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for our external psychometric research partnership, supporting study design, data sharing, psychometric analyses, and interpretation of findings
  • Extract, clean, and securely share assessment data with research partners on a recurring schedule
  • Partner with our product and engineering teams to translate findings into product improvements, such as updates to scoring models and assessment discontinuation rules
  • Collaborate with research partners to develop and publish technical documentation, beginning with the technical manual for our PreK assessment
  • Recruit and manage research partner sites: Recruit and onboard school and district sites for psychometric and efficacy studies
  • Partner with our legal team to draft and negotiate data-sharing agreements with districts and research organizations, including requirements for pseudonymized and identified data
  • Support efficacy research. Coordinate Khan Academy Kids' participation in ongoing efficacy studies and contribute to the design of future studies, aligning internal and external stakeholders on the research approach
  • Own Khan Kids's KPI dashboard: Partner with our engineering team to build and maintain the Khan Academy Kids analytics dashboard, including integrations with App Store Connect and Google Play Console.
  • Maintain the dashboard so it can be used by other teams including marketing, school partnerships, and philanthropy.
  • We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love.

Requirements

  • Proficiency with SQL and a statistical programming language (e.g., R or Python) for extracting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data
  • Experience with (or eagerness to learn) business intelligence tools such as Looker, and comfort building dashboards and data pipelines
  • An advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in psychometrics, educational measurement, quantitative methods or a related field - or equivalent applied experience
  • Strong grounding in psychometric methods, including item analysis, reliability and validity evidence, growth modeling, and Item Response Theory (IRT)
  • Familiarity with responsible data-sharing practices in education research, including student data privacy considerations (e.g., FERPA, COPPA) and work with pseudonymized and deidentified data
  • Excellent communication skills: able to translate complex psychometric findings into clear implications for product teams, funders, and school partners
  • Strong project-management and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple external partners, recurring deliverables, and data-sharing schedules with close attention to detail
  • Proven cross-cultural competency skills, demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of others, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization
  • Nice to have:
  • Experience with (or strong interest in) early childhood education and assessment of young learners is a plus
  • We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer:

Nice to have

  • We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well!
  • Competitive salaries
  • An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
  • Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups

Skills

  • Motivated by Khan Academy's mission "to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere"

Compensation

  • The compensation band for this role is $137,871 - $155,105 USD annually for candidates based in the United States and $186,306 - $209,595 CAD annually for candidates based in Canada.
  • The pay range for this position is a general guideline only.

Benefits

  • Ample paid time off as needed - Your well-being is a priority
  • 8 pre-scheduled Wellness Days in 2026 occurring on a Monday or a Friday for a 3-day weekend boost
  • Generous parental leave
  • The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
  • 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life
  • The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidate's relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and job market data.
  • As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve.

Company info

  • Sal's TED talk from 2011
  • Sal's TED talk from 2015
  • Sal's TED talk from 2023
  • http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team
  • Live & breathe learners
  • We deeply understand and empathize with our users.
  • Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
  • Take a stand
  • The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view.
  • However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
  • Embrace diverse perspectives
  • We are a diverse community.
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