Learning Experience & AI Lead

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $123K - $165K

Schoolhouse.world is a non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan that is scaling free, peer-to-peer tutoring to students across the world. Leveraging the power of teaching as a form of learning, we have already reached over 130K learners from 150+ countries, with plans to grow the platform to millions. Our team has a mission to explore the important role of human connection in an educational landscape that’s being rapidly disrupted by AI, and discover new models where the two can work hand-in-hand.

Requirements

• Deep belief in the power of human connection in learning.
• Desire to explore how AI can enhance it.
• Deep curiosity about what factors impact student learning, especially in a social setting.
• Generalist who loves to tease apart complex questions.
• Excited to learn

Responsibilities

• Build our organization’s understanding of tutoring quality.
• Analyze tutoring sessions and program data to uncover key drivers of student success.
• Iterate on how we conceptualize and measure tutoring quality across the platform.
• Lead AI-driven innovation as an in-house expert on prompt engineering and AI.
• Partner with external research teams to design and test interventions that combine AI tutoring with human coaching.
• Lead experimental pilots to explore how AI can best support connection and learning—driving pilots from user research, to ideation, to low-code experiments with volunteers, to productization.
• Shape our tutor training system: how can we empower our next 100k tutors to build even stronger connection with their learners and support them more effectively towards their goals?
• Level up the impact of our volunteer coaches and peer reviewers by strengthening the human-in-the-loop systems and processes they take part in.

Company Information

• About Schoolhouse: A non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan.
• Mission: Scaling free, peer-to-peer tutoring to students across the world.
• Reach: Over 130K learners from 150+ countries.
• Work Environment: Fully remote with flexible hours (with meetings in US Pacific Time).
• Benefits: Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits, work-from-home stipend, and professional development stipend.
• Social Events: Semesterly retreats and monthly regional meetups (clusters in NYC, Seattle, and the Bay Area).
• Impact: Opportunity to make direct impact on education at a global scale.

Reporting Structure

• Reports to: Head of Foundations
• Works Cross-Functionally With: Product and Programs teams.