About Edkey Inc.
Edkey is an edtech start-up connecting learners and educators in and outside the classroom to ensure learners reach their full potential. Our mission is to make our learning collaboration, communication and knowledge apps accessible and affordable directly to consumers as well as licensing to schools and government agencies. We use cutting-edge technologies (artificial intelligence, Web 3.0, etc.) to ensure positive learner outcomes and meaningful educator collaborations. Founded in fall of 2022 in California, Edkey Inc., has roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, with remote locations in Hong Kong and Costa Rica.
The founding team has a shared belief in personalized, life-long learning and believe that further edtech innovation is needed to democratize access to learning tools that unlock each learner’s full potential.
Ekdey has created a unique new web and mobile app to help students better prepare for tests and finals. The QuickTakes consumer mobile app (available in the iOS and Android app stores) offers college students an easy and effective way to increase their understanding of their course lectures with the help of a personalized AI assistant. For more info about QuickTakes go to https://quicktakes.io.
About the Role
- This is a remote, 3-month internship position.
- Potential for full-time or ongoing contract work beyond.
- Initially 20 hrs per week (but that could expand initially)
- Hours are flexible but working/meetings in afternoons Pacific Time is a requirement (engineering team is based in Hong Kong and India).
Responsibilities:
- Design and analyze A/B tests, market-based tests, etc. and conduct other forms of causal inference and quantitative research to help us rigorously learn about our users and trends
- Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights
- Help solve problems, narrowing down multiple options into the best approach, and take ownership of open-ended ambiguous business problems to reach an optimal solution.
- Build and maintain company-level product and business dashboards
- Report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support business reviews with the full executive team including business, marketing, design, operations and product and engineering teams, and translate analysis results to business insights or product improvement opportunities.
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Designers to help define and maintain metrics for features, launches, and the ongoing full user journey
- Help our go-to-market team measure and analyze opportunities across our user acquisition channels, campaigns, and funnels.
- Work with Engineers to define and maintain core data events and tables
Requirements:
- Significant experience writing complex yet efficient SQL queries
- Experience with scripting/coding for quantitative research and analysis (e.g. Python, R)
- Experience with data visualizations tools (e.g. Mixpanel) and techniques
- Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression and decision trees
- Experience using analytics to drive key product and business decisions
- Experience working with data from consumer mobile and web products
- Experience identifying and defining product tracking needs and event schemas necessary for answering key business questions and deriving user insights
- Proven track record of being able to work autonomously and proactively engage with stakeholders
- Experience presenting data and insights in digestible and actionable ways
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field
Good to have:
- Experience working with data that is strongly influenced by seasonality
- Understanding of or experience with user insights and market trends in Edtech
What's in it for you?
- Join a small start-up company that has a unique mission to help learners
- Work on cutting-edge projects, helping develop innovative features powered by AI
- Directly inform and influence the direction of the company and our products
- Make a significant contribution to the user experience and enhancing user satisfaction
- Work for an organization that values fostering a supportive and inclusive work culture while moving fast and constantly learning.
