Research and Learning Scientist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $130k / year

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TalkingPoints

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🤝 B2B

Education • Non-profit • B2B

TalkingPoints is a non-profit organization focused on enhancing student performance through effective school-family communication. Their platform provides tools and strategies to boost family engagement, particularly in K-12 settings, and addresses language barriers with translation services in over 150 languages. By leveraging data-informed practices, TalkingPoints aids schools and districts in improving student attendance, course proficiency, and overall academic outcomes, with notable success in underserved communities.

📋 Description

• Drive research for at-home learning and personalized recommendation products, and contribute to studies across the research agenda • Support product R&D by applying learning science and behavior-change principles and testing whether features strengthen family practices and student learning • Advise on AI-powered family recommendations, including data signals, skill mapping, personalization limitations, and output quality • Design and run mixed-methods studies, including rapid-cycle, descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, and randomized-trial research • Manage, clean, and analyze quantitative and qualitative platform, partner, and public data • Develop and administer measures of family and educator outcomes linked to student outcomes • Turn findings into impact stories and strategic recommendations for product, partnerships, and fundraising • Represent research with districts, funders, and external researchers • Lead long-term district research partnerships • Informally mentor other researchers as needed • Own projects from design through dissemination and work cross-functionally

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in education, learning sciences, developmental or educational psychology, or a related field • 8+ years of applied research experience, including product, R&D, and funder-facing work • Learning science expertise in literacy and/or math, home learning, and families as learning partners • Expertise in mixed methods, experimental and quasi-experimental design, and measure validation, with honest communication of tradeoffs • Record of translating evidence for non-research audiences and delivering with little oversight • Proficiency in R • Working knowledge of SQL and/or Sigma • Comfort using AI tools • Experience with public education datasets and PII • Family engagement or attendance research expertise • Experience evaluating AI-powered or personalized recommendation tools

🏖️ Benefits

• 401K match • Flexibility to work remotely • Mission-driven, rapidly growing startup tech nonprofit environment • Fun, smart, dynamic, motivated team focused on working together to transform family engagement

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