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The Director of Curriculum is a strategic and hands-on leader who is primarily accountable for the results of a high-functioning instructional team. The Director will work with groups across App Academy to ensure the highest-quality and delivery of content to our growing student body. The Director is charged with leading the efforts to implement and measure all systems needed to maintain a stable capacity of content creators.\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n\n\n* Coordinate with the VP of Academics to minimize cost of content creation and source appropriate contractors to augment full-time capacity\n\n* Establish and enforce content standards, and provide direct feedback to all content creators with respect to the standards and the content\n\n* Identify, develop, execute, and evolve the professional development programs for content creators\n\n* Work with the Director of Instruction to garner implementation and evaluation feedback\n\n* Work with the Director of Software Engineering as the primary stakeholder for the curriculum group\n\n* Work with the Director of Enterprise Instruction to coordinate curriculum development for enterprise clients\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience & Qualifications\n\n\n\n\n* Three years of of professional software development experience\n\n* Demonstrable above average written and presentation skills\n\n* Demonstrable knowledge of all of the following programming topics: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ReactJS and the Flux architecture, Object-oriented design patterns and principles, Microservice architecture, and functional programming patterns and principles\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNice to Haves\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Three years of teaching adult learners\n\n* At least one of the following: three years of experience teaching or a M.Ed.\n\n* At least one of each of the following: five years of software development experience or an M.S. in Computer Science\n\n* Demonstrable knowledge of at least one of the following languages and associated frameworks: Ruby and Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Express.js, SequelizePython, Flask, SQL AlchemyJava, Spring, JPA, C#, ASP.NET MVC, and EF\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Values\n\n\n\n\n* Take responsibility for student success:.  Everyone works together to enable student success.\n\n* Follow the numbers.  Decisions should be backed by data.\n\n* Embrace a growth mindset.  View challenges and failures as opportunities to improve.\n\n* Start with why.  See the big picture and question the status quo. If there’s a better way of doing things we should investigate it.  \n\n* Create an inclusive environment.  We work together to promote empathy and respect amongst all students and staff.\n\n* Build with urgency. Build like careers depend on it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Flexible paid time off\n\n* Employer-sponsored health insurance plans with 100% support for premiums\n\n* Generous paid family leave program\n\n* The opportunity to work with driven and talented colleagues committed to lifelong learning\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApp Academy is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We believe strongly that technology companies benefit from diversity and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.\n\nIn compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Executive, Teaching, Adult and Ruby jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nYour mission\n  At Labster we are dedicated to empowering the next generation of scientists to change the world. Our mission is to develop fully interactive software that makes learning both engaging and effective, and to make it accessible to as many science students as possible (see short trailer here). Since 2012, our simulations were played over 1000000 times and each semester 280 universities and institutions around the globe is using them to enhance their teaching programs. Labster Product teams are approximately 30+ team members - software engineers, 3D and 2D artists, SQAs, product owners and simulation directors located all around the world, between Copenhagen and Bali.  As a software engineer at Labster you will join one of our cross-functional, distributed and truly international teams (we are now more than 18+ nationalities) to work on building VR simulations, simulation editing tools, advanced learning analytics dashboards or implementing micro-service architecture etc.  We govern ourselves by using a flat-hierarchy system called Holacracy that focuses on roles, collaboration and distributed leadership. We believe in flexible working hours and a good work-life balance, and while we love to achieve great things via concentrated work, it’s incredibly important for us to have happy and engaged team members.  \nAs a Lead Developer you will be leading distributed, cross - functional and truly international team of software engineers based all over the world. You will drive the team effort towards common goal by guiding and mentoring, sharing your know-how and implementing best engineering practices. \nYour responsibilities\n\n\n* Represent the team towards the other Product teams.\n\n* Question, evaluate, challenge and assess team members activities.\n\n* Mentor, coach and guide team members to enable their growth.\n\n* Conduct quarterly and yearly performance interviews with the team.\n\n* Working closely with other teams in order to detect and resolve tensions.\n\n* Enable knowledge transfer between cross-functional teams and establish “best practices” by facilitating and initiating clear and efficient communication.\n\n* Recognizing and establishing new ways to continuously improve one team’s and/or cross-team efficiency day-to-day (ideally in alignment with Agile and Holacracy)\n\n* Participate in designing and developing new features for our highly popular virtual laboratory simulation and gamified education platform.\n\n* Contribute to the engineering team's culture of high code quality. You are accountable for the quality of code that is delivered to QA and production and must ensure that appropriate code reviews and unit testing are adequately performed.\n\n* Being technical partner to a product team.\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\nMust-have\n\n\n* You possess excellent and proven leadership experience.\n\n* You have a tendency to propose smart yet simple solutions, individually or with groups.\n\n* You possess a high level of empathy together with great communication skills.\n\n* You understand importance of continuous feedback and recognition.\n\n* You are developer at heart hence you have a solid understanding of algorithms, design patterns, and best practices.\n\n* You have the ability to work in close collaboration with a team in an ambitious and fast-paced environment\n\n* You have an education in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.\n\n* You have expert-level understanding of the Python programming language.\n\n* You have experience in front-end development.\n\n* You have at least 4 years' experience in Django development.\n\n* You have experience working with Agile methodologies.\n\n\n\n\nNice-to-have\n\n\n* You have experience in eLearning.\n\n* You have experience with Unity3D or similar game engines.\n\n* You have experience with C#.\n\n* You have experience with recruitment (conducting interviews, creating coding tests etc.) \n\n\n\n\nWhat do we offer?\n\n\n* Friendly and productive work environment with fun, multinational, smart and open-minded people (we are now 18+ nationalities!)\n\n* Opportunity to work with the newest technologies, for the product company with a noble vision. \n\n* A lot of freedom within your scope of work - you will own your schedule!\n\n* Opportunity to work from home and/or to work on fully remote basis.\n\n* A competitive salary based on your qualifications and experience.\n\n* Company warrants are a part of remuneration. \n\n* Budget for professional and personal development. \n\n* Paid parental leave. \n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, Teaching, Education, Python and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nANet works alongside leadership teams in schools and systems to deliver equitable instruction, and the VP, Product is responsible for designing and executing on a product technology strategy that best supports our instructional products.  Our suite of products and services include school and system coaching, professional learning and standards-based assessments and resources.  ANet has several platforms that enable equitable instruction which the VP will support including:\n\n         MyANet is a teacher- and leader-facing web application that provides interim assessment data reports, standards-based resources, and a portal to support online test administration. \n\n         Our Assessment Delivery System enables students to take online assessments and quizzes. \n\n         Our Quiz Tool is built to enable teachers to create short-cycle assessments. \n\n         Internal applications include an Assessment Development Tool used by our internal content team and a Roster Tool used by our Operations team to support assessment administration and data reporting. \n\n         We also leverage Tableau and a data warehouse to support additional reporting products.\n\n\nThe VP will oversee the creation and execution of a long-term product technology roadmap, manage research into new technology-enabled product offerings, recommend technology strategy that maximizes resources and impact and meets the needs of partners, and lead relationships with technology building block vendors.   Reporting to the Chief Program Officer, the VP will ensure that our approach to product technology strategy is sound, coherent and mission-aligned and will manage a Product Management team to support these endeavors.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\nDevelop and lead a clear vision and strategy for the future direction of ANet’s product technology\n\n        In close coordination with the Product Steering Committee, set the product technology vision in support of our overall vision for our instructional content products (assessments, reports, resources, etc)\n\n        Design and manage the research process and roadmap decisions that enable our technology to deliver strong instructional products that support teaching and learning in schools\n\n        Set strategic direction of our technology including identifying when to use third-party vendors, integrate with other technologies and/or adopt new technical frameworks\n\n        Seek out innovative solutions that deliver on needs of our product and service offerings\n\n        Ensure back end and user technological coherence and efficiency within our many products\n\n        Develop philosophy and approach to requirement prioritization and lead team to strategic conclusions\n\n        Keep up to date on the shifts in the EdTech competitive landscape to ensure ANet is leveraging the best technologies possible to reach our mission\n\n\nManage a Product Management Team to:\n\n        Collaborate with stakeholders and/or users to shape the strategy and execution of product technology\n\n        Execute on the roadmap including facilitating conversations with stakeholders and delivering actionable requirements to  engineers\n\n        Ensure clear and agreed upon acceptance criteria and test cases are in place\n\n        Decide, simplify and manage use of our internal tools for information collection, sharing and progress monitoring relative to product building\n\n        Decide the sequence to build technology that maximizes resources and outcomes\n\n        Actively monitor progress and elevate opportunities and risks for broader decision making\n\n        Ensure we have coherent and accurate internal documentation of project plan with dependencies, roadmap, features and backlog\n\n        Manage process of backlog grooming\n\n        In collaboration with engineering leadership, recommend allocation of  engineering resources given knowledge of priorities, capacity and requirements\n\n        Obsess over great user experience and ensure technology is intuitive and impactful for students, teachers and leaders\n\n        Support communication, training and marketing of our products to network teams and users\n\n\nBuild, develop, and retain a high-performing and highly engaged team\n\n        Manage a skilled and diverse team with a positive, inclusive culture that brings out each team member’s strengths and that aligns to ANet’s mission and core values\n\n        Develop team members to continuously improve by providing high impact feedback and coaching; manage towards excellence in their roles while being committed to their long-term development\n\n        Ensure that cross-team communication, structures and coordination are smooth, efficient and values aligned\n\n        Manage a team budget and resource allocation to balance limited resources with maximum impact\n\nWHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU BRING\n\nIn order to be successful in this role, candidates must demonstrate the following:\n\n        You have previously designed and led product strategy within the education or EdTech spaces, ideally for teacher- or leader-facing products, and managed teams around product management and product development\n\n        Your exceptional judgment and strategic thinking, particularly around resource tradeoffs, has helped you define products, design product roadmaps and deliver organizational value through product development in the past\n\n        You are an exceptional communicator who can translate technology, product, and service needs to business owners and technologists (e.g. “you speak both languages”)\n\n        You have a proven track record of building and managing great teams with success in developing a strategic vision and leading your team towards outcomes while fostering a positive, inclusive team culture\n\n        You have been the lead on complex, cross-functional, and collaborative projects with aggressive timelines\n\n        You are knowledgeable about online assessment creation and delivery technology, platforms, and best practices\n\n        You understand software development life-cycles and best practices and bring experience leveraging usage data to inform UI design and prioritization and experience with Agile Product Management\n\n        You are motivated by working in an environment where we live out our core values daily. You are eager to examine personal archetypes and biases while discussing topics related to race, class, and privilege which relate to ANet’s Advance Equity and People Matter values.\n\n        You have a passionate commitment to and a sense of urgency for the support of schools, along with a belief that all students can achieve at high levels.\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\nANet offers highly competitive compensation based on prior experience and qualifications as well as comprehensive benefits in order to best support our people. Benefits we offer include: health, dental and vision insurance where ANet pays 80% of the cost of these benefits for employees and their families/domestic partner; 3 weeks of vacation (4 weeks after two years with ANet); 10 paid holidays with paid days off between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays; a paid floating holiday; paid sick & personal days; paid parental leave; retirement plan options; commuter benefits; tuition reimbursement;  flexible spending accounts; short and long-term disability coverage; and basic life and personal accident insurance. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Executive, Teaching and Education jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n