WhiteHat Jr - Vice President - Learning Design

Organization overview : 

An incredibly rare opportunity for a passionate, Director - Learning Design to join WhiteHat Jr., a well- funded early stage Ed-Tech start-up backed by big-bracket VCs and an award-winning management team. The founder is highly reputed with a blue-chip pedigree and a history of successful exits. Prototype and Phase 1 have had blockbuster results, targeting an immediate $1.1+ Billion market, enabling tremendous experience and wealth generation in a short time . Series A funded by Leading Global Edtech VC Owl Ventures as well as Nexus Venture Partners and Omidyar Network. WhitehatJr now ranks among the hottest Ed-Tech startups globally with the super successful launch of our coding platform in the US market.

Job Description :

- Provide leadership in understanding the science of learning and in designing innovative learning experiments

- Analyze the student learning outcome data and draw insights from student learning continuum and learning gaps across grades and subjects

- Develop hypothesis on what leads to learning outcome gaps based on the data

- Develop methods to personalize learning experience of students based on learning outcome data

- Work with data analysts/scientists to develop analytical models to correlate learning outcomes data with key drivers of learning outcomes like engagement, curriculum, pedagogy, program, and student background

- Design innovative experiments to overcome learning gaps based on data and insights from analytics

- Partner with different program teams to evaluate effectiveness and viability of different interventions

- Design pilots by working with different program teams using experimental designs for impact measurement

- Collaborate with different teams to plan and execute pilots, collect data, analyze success metrics, and share insights with different teams

- Collaborate with technology and product teams to develop scalable assessment solutions

- Manage assessment projects including design, development, administration, analysis, and reporting

Skills/Experience Required :

- Minimum 10 years of overall experience with at least 5 years of experience in the education sector

- Atleast 3 years of hands-on experience in design, development, and implementation of learning and pedagogical innovations in the K12 sector

- Experience in carrying out analysis of learning outcome data and in presenting actionable insights to different stakeholders

- Demonstrable experience in making data-based decisions to design learning experiments

- Knowledge of research and sampling designs

- Demonstrable ability to navigate tensions between theoretical purity and practical constraints in research

- Knowledge of current issues in learning outcome growth and its measurement in K-12 sector

- Strong project management skills

- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely, orally and in writing, including strong report writing skills