About Us:
At Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT), we're unlocking the power of educator-created content. TpT gives educators access to a trusted, one-of-a-kind community. We are the world's first marketplace of our kind and founded by a teacher, for teachers as the go-to platform for teacher-created content for nearly 15 years. We are currently serving more than 7.5 million users and more than 85% of U.S. teachers. TpT is focused on building the next generation of e-learning experiences for millions of students and teachers across the world. If you haven't heard of TpT yet and want to learn more, just ask any teacher!
Role:
The Data Platform teams deliver value from data to power our products, provide insights about our users, products and business, and help empower TpT to unlock the collective wisdom of teachers. We provide insight, build infrastructure, and tooling that power TpT’s rapidly growing suite of products. In this role, you will be supporting and growing two teams that focus primarily on internal users across all of our products -- Analytics and Data Science.
As the manager for the Data Science and Analytics teams, you will scale the teams, drive their roadmaps, help establish their philosophy, and manage their relationships with other teams. Our data teams work closely with the Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams. Data Science uses research techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning to explore data, test hypotheses, identify underlying causes and patterns, and find the best ways to turn these insights into product improvements. Analytics surfaces actionable insights via objective, data-driven, reporting to support company initiatives and strategic planning. We've recently brought the Data Science, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams together under a unified Data Platform team, building a more cohesive data function, with the teams working closely to consistently deliver value from our data.
As a manager you will play a formative role in this transformation, helping to guide the evolution of this next phase of data at TpT.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, recruit, and manage data scientists, analysts, and analytics engineers from entry level individual contributors to expert level managers
- Evolve the teams’ processes as we launch new products and the company grows
- Provide expertise in fundamental data science concepts, such as experimentation and predictive modeling
- Provide guidance in framing data science problems/complex analyses, and support the teams’ delivery of clear, high quality results
- Manage stakeholder relationships and dependencies; work with technical leads on your teams to determine priorities and requirements
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of management experience leading high performing data science/analytics teams tackling difficult problems; 6+ years of total experience as a data scientist working alongside analysts
- Strong communicator who can crisply explain complex technical concepts.
- Collaborates with product managers, community relations, and other engineering leaders in the org.
- Comfortable with agile project management practices with a track record of successfully managing and delivering several large projects.
- Able to proactively identify ways in which to improve the quality, timeliness and reliability of data
- Experience with drawing insights from large scale event tracking data, A/B testing, and familiarity with commonly used, relevant data science tools and libraries.
Benefits & Perks:
At TpT, we believe the positive experience of employees is essential to growth, both individually and collectively. To achieve our mission of ‘Empowering Educators to Teach at Their Best,’ we must also empower the members of our TpT Team to work at their best. To that end, two of our core company values are “We Learn and Grow Together” and “We Enjoy the Journey.” We’ve committed to these values and to our employees through investing in added benefits and perks:
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
- Free Telemedicine Membership - 24/7 access to trusted medical advisors
- Generous PTO and Wellness Days
- 5 Week “Recharge Leave” after 5 Years, to refresh and celebrate the impact you’ve had at TpT
- Generous Parental Leave (for new parents) for time to adjust to parenthood, plus additional six weeks for the birth parent
- Onsite Mother’s Room
- ‘Employee Resource Groups’ (ERGs) to promote employee inclusivity and belonging
- Engineering Learning Fridays (ELF), to provide a space each week for Engineering teams to collaborate and learn from each other
- ‘Professional Development’ Stipend, to support the professional growth of employees (including - but not limited to - subscriptions, books, lectures, etc.)
- Annual Company Events (Camp TpT, Field Day, Hackathons, Holiday Party, Summer Picnic, Classroom Visits, etc.)
Here at TpT we value Diversity & Inclusion and encourage people to bring their most authentic selves to work. We cultivate an environment where people are recognized and celebrated for their individuality.
Any TpT applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the interview process should contact the TpT People Ops Team (accommodations@teacherspayteachers.com) to make the need for an accommodation known.
Finally, if you’re a California resident, California law requires that we provide you notice about the collection and use of your personal information. We encourage you to read it carefully. You can find our full notice here.
