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For any of the jobs below, we recommend you apply if you love education, early-stage startups, and a culture that emphasizes improvement, thinking, collaboration, and ownership (these are our core values). To apply, tell us why you would be great for the role and send a resume to jobs[at]activelylearn.com.

Product Manager


Location: Seattle, WA (HQ)

Actively Learn is the best curriculum platform for students and educators. To be the best, we must continuously innovate and improve. As a product manager focused on user experience, you will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to determine priorities for our flagship product Actively Learn as well as Achieve3000 Math and communicate the value we deliver to a variety of stakeholders.  

Responsibilities:

  • Determine user experience improvements through user analysis (including writing SQL queries), interviews, and product testing.
  • Write and design feature specs for the engineering team to build, coordinating any follow-ups until the feature ships.
  • Prioritize feature lists and maintain statuses on features in development.
  • Create product marketing collateral and internal training materials (videos, microlearning).
  • Communicate product updates to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Work with multiple teams across the company to solicit product ideas.

Qualifications:

  • 2+ years in a Product Management or similar role at a software company
  • Empathy for teachers and students that motivates a desire to improve their lives through our products every single day.
  • Understanding of code and technical architecture, with an ability to size engineering effort.
  • Strong writing skills and an eye for design.
  • Highly organized and proficient with product management tools and spreadsheets. Detail oriented.

If you are interested, send us an email at alexis.gray@achieve3000.com. To get us really excited, tell us about an idea for a product that you’ve been dying to build.

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Sr. Client Success Manager

Location: United States (high priority MidWest, Mid Atlantic, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina)

At Actively Learn, we strive to be not just a vendor to schools and districts, but a true partner. This means we’re relentlessly focused on delivering value in every partnership. In this role you will work proactively with schools and districts to get their students reading for depth. You will be responsible for onboarding partners and ensuring they will renew. To do this, you’ll need to build and maintain strong, long-lasting partnerships with stakeholders at all levels of K-12 institutions. Product and pedagogy experience will help partners use Actively Learn to its fullest potential.

Responsibilities:

  • Own end-to-end client lifecycle post-sale with a dedicated portfolio of partners
  • Develop and lead implementation plans with partners
  • Deliver professional development sessions, both in person, and online
  • Monitor partner and portfolio health and ensure satisfaction by developing strong relationships and increasing usage and adoption
  • Serve as an implementation expert and partner to help schools and districts drive improved student reading outcomes
  • Travel approximately 20% to meet with partners for professional learning & planning

Qualifications:

  • 4+ years in a Sales (likely expansions) or Success (renewal) role, ideally at an EdTech B2B or B2G at a software company
  • Demonstrated project and portfolio management skills with 60+ partners
  • Excellent communications across all channels, with an emphasis on written communication
  • Experience in probing for underlying customer needs and providing solutions based on them
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in building relationships with every level of decision making in schools & districts
  • Have a proven ability to organize and prioritize against competing needs
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We expect the candidate will demonstrate a strong work ethic, empathy, excellent communications skills, and ability to take direction and guidance. If you are interested, send us an email at alexis.gray@achieve3000.com. To get us really excited, tell us about a time you convinced a group of people to try something new.

Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Seattle, WA (HQ)

Actively Learn’s mission is to enable every student to learn deeply.

Our vision is why we are building the best digital reading platform for students. For too many, reading is simply not as educational and rewarding as it should be. We reinvent reading so that students deeply understand what they read, build connections between texts, and actively construct knowledge.

As a company, we want to help students learn, think, and become people who do great things. We are optimistic about what thinking young people can accomplish and we look forward to the world they will build.

We’re hiring a senior backend engineer to join our growing engineering team and help build out and scale our platform and services. We’re looking for someone who is as passionate about education and collaboration as they are about technology.

Culturally, our team is a small, highly collaborative start-up, and each of us get to wear a variety of engineering hats.

What we do:

We use Typescript, Node, React, Python, and AWS to build performant web platforms at scale that effect outsized change in the educational lives of students.

Who you are:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer focused on Backend Web Technologies and experienced with AWS, API development, docker, and breaking monoliths into microservices.

What you'll do:

  • have ownership of our backend API, architecture, security, and platform infrastructure
  • write code with a focus on maintainability, scalability, and testability.
  • drive best practices and mentor backend engineers on backend & microservice development
  • improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  • find and address performance issues across the backend stack
  • work with a tight and highly collaborative team of smart and engaged engineers

What you'll bring:

  • 5+ years experience as a backend engineer
  • Solid experience developing APIs and microservices
  • Solid experience with relational databases
  • Experience developing and operating AWS based platforms
  • Experience in two of the following languages: Node.js (preferred), Python, or Go, or Java
  • Experience with Docker and an orchestration service such as Kubernetes
  • A knack for engineering simple solutions to complex problems

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 1+ years experience with Typescript
  • Experience communicating with and supporting customers
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