Content Creator

Summary

Join Khan Academy as a Math Content Creator for grades 3-8! This 24-month fixed-term position offers the chance to develop high-quality, standards-aligned math lessons for millions of students. You will collaborate with a global team to create engaging videos, articles, and exercises. Leveraging your expertise and intuition for learner needs, you'll contribute to expanding our math courses and improving existing content. This role requires proven content creation experience, strong teaching skills, and a passion for improving education. Khan Academy offers competitive salaries, ample paid time off, a remote-first culture, generous parental leave, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Proven ability to create high-impact learning content in your discipline (minimum of 2 years of content development experience in grades 3-8 Math subjects including Algebra I)
• Strong intuition for how students like to learn and insight into common misconceptions (minimum of 2 years of relevant teaching/tutoring experience)
• Experience and aptitude working with multiple standards sets (e.g. CCSS, State Standards etc.) to ensure coverage and alignment during course development and curation
• Desire to teach at scale, engage with a broad array of learners, and question your assumptions about what's most important for learners
• Desire to leverage online tools to publish quickly, gather user feedback, and iterate on content
• Highly analytical and able to make tough prioritization calls in service of most critical metrics
• An entrepreneurial mindset, including a high tolerance for ambiguity, a penchant for experimentation, and a bias toward action
• Strong interest in building replicable systems and minimizing reinvention of the wheel
• Experience leading collaborative work on time-sensitive projects
• Impeccable command of written communication; an energetic can do attitude as a fluent and efficient content creator, a keen editorial eye for high quality text in exercises and articles, and a knack for empowering, supportive peer review
• Meticulous attention to detail and time management skills
• Project management skills (e.g. fluent with Google docs and spreadsheets and other tools) and a willingness to learn new tools
• Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization

Responsibilities

• Work with the content team to expand our Math courses by leveraging market research, your subject matter expertise, and your intuition for learner needs
• Develop course scopes and sequences, including units, lessons, and content assets (articles, videos, and exercises)
• Create and curate high quality content on schedule, designing and developing new standards-aligned exercises and articles, leveraging pre-existing resources from Khan Academy and third parties, and scripting (and possibly recording) engaging lesson videos
• Be accountable for content from any contractors and 3rd parties used to build out the courses you’re working on
• Track the performance and usage of content in the courses in your purview
• Leverage analytics, community features, and campaigns to attract and retain learners
• Learn and use our content management system to improve existing courses and build new courses
• Act as an editorial expert by reviewing new content, participating in the maintenance of existing content, and working with partners
• Contribute to the long-term strategic direction of Khan Academy’s content efforts by improving upon our processes around content sourcing, sharing insights with other members of the team, and advocating for learners

Preferred Qualifications

Previous edtech experience developing math content is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority
• Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times
• Generous parental leave
• An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
• 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
• Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
• 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life