Careers at Knewton
We're always interested in outstanding candidates.
Teacher
Knewton is seeking exceptionally talented GMAT, SAT, and LSAT instructors for part-time and full-time positions.
Earn $100-$500/hr as one of the world's best-paid teachers and receive unparalleled support from our expert staff. Knewton pays teachers more than anyone else does because we know that only the best teachers help students to reach their full potential.
So do you find yourself doing old LSATs on the weekend instead of the crossword puzzle? Or GMATs instead of Sudoku? Do you love to teach interesting things to smart, highly motivated people? If so, email us at teach@knewton.com with your resume, test scores, and cover letter.
Candidates must have:
- extensive classroom experience
- evidence of extraordinary presentation skills (quotes or ratings from previous students)
- great sense of humor or other (PG-rated) ways to keep students' attention for three hours at a time
- perfect or near-perfect test scores
Content Developer
Are you a mathlete? Grammar geek? Logic whiz? Do you love solving problems, and (most importantly) can you explain the answers to them so clearly that any 8th grader could understand?
If you answered an emphatic "Yes!" to these questions, you should be a Content Developer at Knewton. Content Devs create and edit all of the content in Knewton's online courses. They produce:
- games and quizzes that gauge knowledge of core academic concepts
- test-like questions (GMAT, LSAT, SAT, and MCAT) for homework and practice tests
- lessons for students in our online classroom
- text, audio, and video content for use throughout our courses
Content Developers also serve as TAs during live classes, answering student questions via chat while an instructor teaches on camera.
Candidates must have:
- exceptional intelligence (especially math and/or logical reasoning skills)
- outstanding work ethic
- passion for education
- all around great attitude
Major pluses:
- test prep experience (especially GMAT, LSAT, SAT, MCAT, or ACT)
- writing/editorial experience
- teaching/tutoring experience
Manager, Paid Search Marketing
Primary Job Responsibilities
Manager, Paid Search Marketing is responsible for leading customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search). Will lead test and target efforts to improve online metrics for customer conversion. SEO and Email experience a BIG plus.
Responsibilities include:
- Execution of customer acquisition and revenue strategy
- Supervising SEM marketing agency and search engine relationships
- Reporting and analyzing acquisition metrics and profitability
- Optimization of customer acquisition funnel
- Identifying and pursuing new marketing opportunities
Job Requirements
The right candidate should have extensive experience in bid management for Paid Search and executing a multi-channel marketing campaigns to achieve branding and performance targets. Will need to be hands-on and entrepreneurial. Creative, curious and always looking to new ways to engage our customers. Must keep pace with a fast moving start-up environment. Comfortable wearing many marketing hats including copy-writing, creative execution and testing other CPC models
- 3+ years of Paid Search experience in a consumer acquisition/e-commerce role
- Experience working/implementing tracking pixels, trafficking URLs and launching promotionasl campaigns
- Experience with test and targeting key customer segments; Landing page and other creative testing
- Strong business background, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in direct response or continuity marketing a plus
- Strong work ethic; Web-savvy and entrepreneurial
- BA/BS
Product Manager
We seek a creative and business-minded professional to be a Product Manager for product development team. The Product Manager will work directly for the Vice President of Product Development and will be a key player in identifying and collecting business requirements, creating business cases and project documents, managing projects, and managing features on an ongoing basis. This person will work closely with marketing, academics, multimedia, design, technology and executive teams to develop and manage product, program and feature development. The role requires consideration for long-term product quality and customer satisfaction, and calls for an individual with entrepreneurial drive and extraordinary flexibility to meet the demands at a high-energy start-up.
Responsibilities
- Understand the business issues and technical challenges and collaborate with teams to capture requirements for projects
- Work with your manager to prioritize projects among competing opportunities, balance customer needs with business priorities, and articulate rationale behind decisions
- Create revenue and cost models for product initiatives
- Identify internal and external customer needs, generate requirements documents, prioritize and manage projects
- Partner with internal clients such as academic, marketing, technology, and executive teams to meet their product needs
- Conduct external customer interviews for requirements gathering and customer insight
- Manage product programs and features on an ongoing basis
- Monitor competition and evaluate our positioning in the context of the markets we serve
- Define, analyze, track and improve key product metrics
Requirements
- BS/BA or equivalent, MBA a plus
- 3-5 years business operations or product management experience with consumer internet products
- Understanding of agile product development methods
- A passion for or appreciation of practical use of technology in education
- Ability to construct cost / benefit analysis
- Strong analytical capability and understanding of key financial and business metrics
- Gracious team player capable of navigating the organization with skill and charm
- Entrepreneurial spirit
Interaction Designer
Based in NYC's Union Square, Knewton is poised to revolutionize the practice of education with the world's most powerful adaptive learning engine. Today, our revenues come from our next-gen online test prep classes, but our vision is much wider. Generic blurb aside, we are a startup. We are rich in eclectic personalities and are ridiculously dedicated. Our intention is to democratize education. Yes, that is a lofty goal, but we are committed to it, and our investors think we're on to something.
You are a junior or mid-level designer eager to work as a dedicated, on-site member of the product development team on meaty, worthwhile projects.
You definitely:
- have training and/or 2-4 years of experience in web-based interactive design
- consider yourself a problem-solver: you are preoccupied with interaction design + usability
- understand how to work within a design system
- are a self-starter - can self-direct a project with limited direction
- have an appreciation for simplicity as a design principle
- are interested in pushing the envelope on web 2.0 ui design
- have a natural ability to make information beautiful
Responsibilities:
- wireframing for our product
- developing sitemaps/user flows where needed
- prototyping design solutions
- specifying guidelines and interaction patterns
- user observation + usability testing
Other skills you may have:
- visual design
- front-end development
Software Engineering Manager
At Knewton, a software engineering manager is equal parts consultant, coach and coder. As a consultant, a manager must help define, refine and translate business needs for the development team. As a coach, a manager must facilitate learning for all members of the team; the manager must let people know where they've made mistakes and work to improve without being punitive. As a coder, a manager must have excellent habits that serve as an example for all engineers on the team. These aspects must be grounded in a drive to improve the basic metrics of the business while consistently improving our capabilities for future delivery.
The manager will lead one of our Web Development teams responsible for: our test prep student sites, our content manager site or our teacher site.
What we need from you:
- High energy and positive attitude.
- Experience with Agile Development methodology - XP, Scrum, etc. Primarily TDD and Incremental Development.
- Proven ability to frequently deliver high-quality code.
- Proven ability to build and grow a constantly learning team.
- Proven ability to collaborate with business owners to quickly resolve their most important business issues.
- Fearlessness toward making mistakes the first time and confidence to allow team members to do the same.
What we'd like from you:
- Startup Experience.
- Python, Ruby or Java and Unix Scripting experience.
- Data Mining or Machine Learning Engineering experience.
If you are interested in learning more about the opportunity, please e-mail techjobs@knewton.com and attach a resume.
Software Engineer
Knewton is looking for a talented Software Engineer with superior problem solving and coding skills.
Based in NYC's Union Square, Knewton is poised to revolutionize the practice of education with the world's most powerful adaptive learning engine. Today, our revenues come from our proprietary test prep classes, but we will soon open up our platform to major education companies.
We are a startup in every sense: rich in eclectic personalities and disgustingly dedicated. Our intention is to democratize education. Yes, that is a lofty goal, and so we are expanding our team.
What we need from you is experience with:
- Creating clean, elegant code
- MySQL
- Creating RESTful interfaces
- Building web platforms
- Strong communication skills
- A start-up mentality and work ethic
Bonus:
- Amazon Web Services experience
- NIX experience
- Agile Development experience
- Javascript
- machine learning
- Python
- Ruby
- RubyonRails
Your role:
- You'll be working to implement innovative new features that get in front of customers quickly
Start-up life can be intense, but it's not without its perks: macs, huge monitors, excellent benefits, massages, and a snack closet filled with your favorite treats.
If you are interested in learning more about the opportunity, please e-mail techjobs@knewton.com and attach a resume.
Data Mining Engineer
We're looking for an engineer or applied scientist with experience implementing data mining and machine learning systems to help build an innovative online education system that adapts to each individual student.
What we need from you:
- Passion and enthusiasm for building scalable systems that analyze massive data sets and make actionable recommendations
- Proven ability to identify non-obvious relationships within large data sets
- Ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data
- Familiarity with linear algebra and manipulating data using matrix algorithms
- Ability to build and interpret probabilistic models of complex, high-dimensional systems
Using any of following technologies:
- Collaborative filtering
- Decision trees
- Bayesian inference
- Genetic algorithms
- Support vector machines
- Neural networks
- Clustering techniques (principal components analysis, k-means, etc.)
What we'd like from you:
- Experience with MapReduce or other technologies for distributed or parallel computing
- Semantic text mining or natural language processing experience
- Familiarity with algorithms for time series analysis
Start-up life can be intense, but it's not without its perks: macs, huge monitors, excellent benefits, massages, and a snack closet filled with your favorite treats.
If you are interested in learning more about the opportunity, please e-mail techjobs@knewton.com and attach a resume.
SAT Prep Telesales Consultant
We're looking to expand our telesales team with a exceptional individual who is willing to "roll up their sleeves" and help us build a scalable operation for the future.
Our phone sales are the result of trial-to-paid lead generation follow up opportunities. We are looking for highly motivated and bright representatives who can facilitate engaging and detailed conversations about our educational products in a very consultative manner. This position would involve initially calling our trial customers to convert and then ultimately managing the operation while we build the telesales channel. This is not a cold calling but does require effective lead qualification and sales expertise.
The ideal candidate has been a successful telesales representative in the past, is willing to perform a lot of the calling in the preliminary phases and has experience managing a telesales team. Experience in setting up technological processes and systems a big plus (Salesforce, VOIP telephony, etc). Understanding of sales script development and refinement, messaging and best practices is also important.
Responsibilities:
- Make sales calls to inquiring students
- Help hone sales techniques and scripts
- Improve operational workflow and build out technology with CRM and telephony
- Manage team of sales agents, assist with planning and hiring for new agents as necessary
- Work with Director of Test Prep and management team to develop proper reporting metrics
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from a top four-year university
- 1-3 years of sales experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly motivated, self-starter, proactive, enthusiastic and results-driven
- Proven track record for exceeding goals
- Proven ability to develop and qualify lead opportunities that can support the sales channel pipeline
- A strong team player, able to assist other members meet their potential while being a strong individual contributor
- Experience working within sales teams and understanding of the sales processes
- Strong attention to detail; good listener; good organizational skills
- Great capacity for working autonomously and meeting deadlines
- Experience in the education field and/or test prep (GMAT, LSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE) a plus
Compensation includes a base salary and graduated commission structure. Full benefits included. Equity in the company potentially included.
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