About the Role:

As a Research Scientist, you will join a team of researchers developing and iterating on core products and features.  We work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Design to ideate, execute, and iterate on product functionality to support personalized and accelerated learning.  The ideal candidate has foundational research experience to make meaning out of large-scale, raw data; has an understanding and ability to apply a breadth of methodological tools (ML a plus) to solutionize product needs; and has a nimbleness in working across a variety of research needs to support product development.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Research projects will support a range of company goals, including developing new product features, understanding impacts associated with changes or enhancements to the product, and evaluation of outcomes associated with external student proficiency.
• Independently design and implement formative and summative research on assessment and growth of mathematical proficiency.
• Collaborate on the design and analysis of experiments (i.e. A/B testing or randomized controlled trials) to evaluate the impact of new product features and learning pathways.
• Conduct analyses of existing data from our extensive data warehouse in collaboration with others on the Research team in support of critical product development initiatives.

About You:

• Master’s Degree (PhD preferred) in Statistics, Data Science, Psychology, Education, or related quantitative field or 2-3+ years of relevant experience
• Familiarity with Psychometric Techniques or Techniques Associated with Other Relevant Areas of Expertise
• Strong knowledge of SQL, Python/R, and data warehouse technologies required
• Strong communication skills of conveying technical information to non-technical audiences
• A willingness to explore new alternatives or options to solve data issues, and utilize a combination of research best practices, methodological innovations and your experience to get the job done
• Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tool a plus
• Experience in education or product research beneficial but not required
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

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