About CK-12
CK-12’s vision is to provide content and tools that can help increase student learning through engagement, and to provide more universal access to learning and learning content, irrespective of educational resources available for a student or region.
To achieve this noble and ambitious vision, we at CK-12 are challenging traditional model of education to transform it dramatically. Technology has opened up lots of opportunities to revolutionize education for the benefit of students, teachers and parents.
We have chosen to be non-profit so that we can effectively realize our mission and so that we can do the right thing! It also provides us the ability to experiment big and bold ideas. CK-12 is backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.
At CK-12, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and non bureaucratic environment where you will get a lot of cool things done than you ever imagined! We are a small group of passionate folks who are determined disrupt the current form of education. We came together from companies such as Apple, eBay, Amazon, McGraw-Hill, and startups. To achieve our goals, we use cutting edge technologies like Amazon cloud (AWS), MongoDB, GraphDB, HTML5/CSS3/Javascript, mobile apps on Android, iOS and Windows, PhoneGap and data science / machine learning. We are reimagining our cloud-based platform with a mobile-first strategy, providing easy to use, intuitive and simple interfaces to millions of users worldwide.
Does our mission, people and technologies excite you? Best in class User Experience powered by Data science / Machine learning is a key part of providing customized solutions for our users needs. Do you want to revolutionize the way teachers teach and students learn with free access to highly engaging experiences, anytime and anywhere? If the answer is YES! and you are a great technologist who will challenge status-quo (no order takers please!) by innovating, please come join us! Together, we will change the world!
Core Responsibilities
This role will have two core responsibilities – BI and Data Science
BI responsibilities:
- Extract and Analyze large volume of data deeply to understand and deduce a wide range of information about CK-12 students, teachers and their history
- Transform these insights into actionable reports
- Communicate data insights to the team and recommend concrete actions and inferences to the team
- Institutionalize user analytics in processes and decision making, both strategic and tactical that will drive to achieve CK-12 mission
- Make sure we develop analytics as part of our DNA and whatever features we build (or the ones that are live currently) captures enough meaningful analytics for future data mining.
Data Science responsibilities:
- Extract and Analyze large volume of data deeply to understand and deduce a wide range of information about CK-12 students, teachers and their history
- Anticipate user’s needs based on their past actions, collaborative filters and other data analytics techniques to create highly engaging experiences that increase usage (for new and repeat users) of CK-12
- Extract and Analyse large volume of data deeply to understand and deduce a wide range of information about CK-12 students, teachers and their history
- Provide technical expertise in machine learning, statistical analysis, mathematical modelling
- Have fun while driving innovation through data by challenging the status quo in education and learning and providing creative data based solutions
Requirements:
- Software development: C/C++/Java/Python, Linux/Unix
- Proficiency in SQL or NoSQL and handling large and messy datasets
- Experience with data visualization software and/or libraries (e.g. Tableau, matplotlib, etc)
- Experience with mathematical, statistical, and scientific modeling skills
- Experience in segmentation building, predictive analytics, and statistical modelling
- Adept at problem solving using both textbook methods and novel viewpoints
- Proficiency in Pandas, SAS, R, Matlab or other analytics/data mining package
- Be a data enthusiast and a data skeptic; we need both
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- 4+ years of experience in BI / Data Science
- Bachelor’s or Higher degree (Computer Science) or equivalent
Additional Desired Skills:
- Experience with NoSQL platforms, especially MongoDB
- Experience with Hadoop stack (HIVE, Pig, Hadoop streaming) and MapReduce
Must be a US citizen or Green Card holder