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QA Engineer Internship (Paid)

A wildly committed start-up of edupunks is looking for a QA Engineer Intern who can work hard, play hard, and catch all of our bugs with grace.

Based in NYC's Union Square, Knewton is poised to revolutionize the practice of education with the world's most powerful adaptive learning engine.

We're looking for someone who wants a serious internship—someone who can work closely with our product development team to ensure quality in every new feature we ship. So, we think you’ll need to have the following skills/experience:

- A serious attention to detail and a passion for building quality web applications
- Some experience testing web applications
- Some knowledge of QA testing methodology
- Some familiarity with defect tracking software
- An inexhaustible desire to learn new skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to work in, well, a very fast-paced environment

Bonus Points:

- Knowledge of Selenium RC/Grinder or similar testing suites
- Experience with Gomez or similar services
- Computer science or engineering background
- Knowledge of MySQL, Python, and/or Ruby on Rails

The QA Engineer Intern will work with the developers and product managers to create a test plan and will be responsible for ensuring the quality of each release as well as tracking defects. This is an opportunity to join an amazing development team. We promise to teach you an incredible amount if you promise to reciprocate with your hard work. Start-up life can be intense, but it's not without its perks: Macs, huge monitors, a whole room dedicated to Wii, a free latte machine, more snacks than you can shake a stick at.

About Knewton

Knewton has developed the industry’s first adaptive learning engine, customizing educational content to meet the individual needs of each student.

Today, Knewton delivers test prep courses for the GMAT, LSAT, and SAT that bring the brightest and most experienced teachers directly to students worldwide via a live and on-demand online video classroom. Knewton's educational platform, however, can power any educational content, enabling students of all types to learn more effectively.

Knewton has attracted funding from a top tier sources including Accel Partners, Bessemer Ventures, First Round Capital, and several prominent angel investors.

.http://www.knewton.com

If this sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you – send your resume to us.

Online Marketing Coordinator, Customer Acquisition

Online Marketing Coordinator, Customer Acquisition

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Online Marketing Coordinator is responsible for helping the Marketing Team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), Affiliate Marketing, and Email. Will design and execute campaign to facilitate customer acquisition. You must have 2+ years of direct, online marketing experience in a consumer acquisition role in one or more of these channels: Paid Search, Organic Search/SEO, Email, Display and/or Social Media.

Responsibilities include:

Link Building and affiliate/social media outreach
Execution of customer acquisition and revenue strategy
Reporting and analyzing acquisition metrics and profitability
Reporting and results analysis of Landing page and other creative testing
Executing the email contact strategy for remarketing/reactivation of database prospects
Identifying and pursuing new marketing opportunities

Job Requirements:

The right candidate should have experience managing to metrics and executing online marketing campaigns to achieve branding and performance targets. Creative, curious and always looking to new ways to engage our customers. Must keep pace with a fast moving start-up environment. Comfortable wearing many marketing hats including copy-writing, online promotions, social media outreach etc.

2+ years of direct, online marketing experience in a consumer acquisition role
Experience working/implementing tracking pixels, trafficking URLs and launching email campaigns
Strong business background, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience in direct response or continuity marketing a plus, SEO experience a plus
Strong work ethic; Web-savvy and entrepreneurial
BA/BS

Manager, Email Marketing

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Manager, Email Marketing is responsible for leading customer acquisition and revenue growth through Email. Will lead test and target efforts to improve online metrics for customer conversion. SEM and Affiliate experience a BIG plus.

Responsibilities include:

· Execution of customer acquisition and revenue strategy via email channel

· Development of an effective contact strategy on action-based triggers

· Email Surveying of prospects and existing customers

· Execution of Promotions, discounts and other marketing campaigns; Monthly Product Newsletter

· Optimization of customer acquisition funnel

· Test and targeting key customer segments, Management/optimization of Refer a Friend Program

· Reporting and analyzing acquisition metrics and profitability

· Identifying and pursuing new opportunities

Job Requirements:

The right candidate should have extensive experience in email marketing and executing campaigns to achieve branding and performance targets. Will need to be hands-on and entrepreneurial. Creative, curious and always looking to new ways to engage our customers. Must keep pace with a fast moving start-up environment. Comfortable wearing many hats including copy-writing, creative execution and reporting

· 3+ years of Email experience in a consumer acquisition/e-commerce role

· Experience working/implementing with email delivery platforms and launching promotional campaigns

· Experience with Subject line, Email creative and Landing page and other creative testing

· Strong business background, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Experience in direct response or continuity marketing a plus

· Strong work ethic; Web-savvy and entrepreneurial

· BA/BS

Manager, Paid Search Marketing

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Manager, Paid Search Marketing is responsible for leading customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search). Will lead test and target efforts to improve online metrics for customer conversion. SEO and Email experience a BIG plus.

Responsibilities include:

· Execution of customer acquisition and revenue strategy

· Supervising SEM marketing agency and search engine relationships

· Reporting and analyzing acquisition metrics and profitability

· Optimization of customer acquisition funnel

· Identifying and pursuing new marketing opportunities

Job Requirements:

The right candidate should have extensive experience in bid management for Paid Search and executing a multi-channel marketing campaigns to achieve branding and performance targets. Will need to be hands-on and entrepreneurial. Creative, curious and always looking to new ways to engage our customers. Must keep pace with a fast moving start-up environment. Comfortable wearing many marketing hats including copy-writing, creative execution and testing other CPC models

· 3+ years of Paid Search experience in a consumer acquisition/e-commerce role

· Experience working/implementing tracking pixels, trafficking URLs and launching promotional campaigns

· Experience with test and targeting key customer segments; Landing page and other creative testing

· Strong business background, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Experience in direct response or continuity marketing a plus

· Strong work ethic; Web-savvy and entrepreneurial

· BA/BS

Online Marketing Analyst

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Online Marketing Analyst is responsible for identifying and proactively leveraging analytical insights from website data to drive site optimization and decision making across the organization.

Responsibilities include:

· Support the analytic needs of the business by analyzing web traffic and customer behavior

· Create clear and comprehensible reports showing data and trends

· Provide insights and recommendations to Marketing, Creative, Customer Service teams on prospect and customer online behavior to optimize purchase and retention.

· Provide recommendations on how to maximize revenue based on A/B and multivariate testing

· Identifying and pursuing new acquisition opportunities

Job Requirements:

The right candidate will have experience analyzing data to drive actionable recommendations for achieving revenue/branding targets. Creative, curious and always looking to new ways to engage our customers. Must keep pace in a fast moving start-up environment.

· Online retail experience or web analytics experience required

· Strong background in understanding how to use data to drive decisions

· Familiarity with web analytics implementation and HTML/Javascript coding

· Strong business background. Business or accounting degree a plus.

· CS experience a plus.

· Strong work ethic; Web-savvy and entrepreneurial

· BA/BS

Director, Online Marketing

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Online Marketing Director is responsible for helping the Marketing Team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email. Will design and execute campaign to facilitate customer acquisition.

Responsibilities includes:

· Lead comprehensive on- and off-site SEO strategy including Content Optimization, Link Building and Affiliate/Social media outreach

· Execution of customer acquisition and revenue strategy using Organic and Paid Search, Email and Affiliate relationships

· Reporting and analyzing acquisition metrics and profitability

· Reporting and results analysis of landing page and other creative testing

· Executing the email contact strategy for remarketing/reactivation of database prospects

· Identifying and pursuing new marketing opportunities

Job Requirements:

The right candidate should have experience managing to metrics and executing online marketing campaigns to achieve branding and performance targets. Creative, curious and always looking to new ways to engage our customers. Must keep pace in a fast moving start-up environment. Comfortable wearing many marketing hats including copy-writing, online promotions, social media outreach etc.

· 3+ years of software or Internet company experience in a consumer acquisition role.

· Strong SEO/SEM experience. Comfortable making on-site updates to meet SEO best practices. Significantly increase organic traffic through execution of traditional SEO techniques as well as pursuing innovative approaches through Social Media.

· Experience working/implementing tracking pixels, trafficking URLs and launching multi-channel campaigns include paid search, email and affiliate marketing.

· Strong business background, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Strong work ethic; Web-savvy and entrepreneurial; Experience in direct response or continuity marketing a plus

· C S degree or former coding experience a plus

· BA/BS. MBA a plus.

Machine Learning Specialist

We're looking for a Software Engineer with experience implementing Machine Learning systems in Python, Java or C/C++ to build an innovative online education system that adapts to each individual learner for each individual type of concept.

What we need from you:

- Passion and enthusiasm for building scalable systems that analyze HUGE data sets and suggest significant recommendations

- Proven ability to find correlations within large, not obviously related data sets

- Proven ability to determine the probability of a desired outcome based on past attempts to achieve that same outcome

Utilizing any of the following technologies:

- Collaborative Filtering

- Decision Trees (and automatic decision tree generation)

- Bayesian methods

What we'd like from you:

- Hadoop or other MapReduce implementation experience

- Experience in high-stakes information retrieval and statistical analysis - (i.e. Bioinformatics, Fraud Detection)

- Semantic text mining experience

Teacher

Teach for Knewton

Earn $100-200 per hour as a teacher for Knewton. Based in New York City’s West Village, Knewton is looking to hire exceptionally talented GMAT and LSAT instructors for part-time and full-time positions.

Part-time positions are quite flexible; because our classes reach people around the world via the internet, we run classes from the mornings through the middle of the night.

We pay our teachers the highest rates in the industry because we provide our students with unparalleled training and support from an expert staff. We therefore expect our teachers to be among the best in the country—dynamic, highly intelligent, experienced instructors with a passion for learning.

The students in Knewton classes are intellectually curious and highly motivated to succeed. All of our teachers find the work stimulating, rigorous, and, most of all, highly rewarding.

If this sounds attractive to you, we encourage you to apply.

Candidates must have:

extensive experience educating others
extraordinary presentation skills
great sense of humor or other (PG-rated) ways to keep students’ attention for three hours at a time
outstanding test scores

Major Plusses:

· GMAT and/or LSAT teaching experience

· MBA or JD

Content Developer

Knewton, an online education start-up located in New York City, is growing its team.

Position: Content Developer

Were you a mathlete? Did you (secretly) love it? Can you recite the first 7 decimal places of (1 + root 5)/2, or the first 15 digits of pi? Most important, can you find the probability that a dart lands in an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle, rather than in the portion of the circle outside of the triangle?

Do you love breaking down arguments? Proving your opponent wrong? Persuading others of your own point of view? What can you deduce if you were told that Xavier will attend the party only if Yvette attends the party but that Yvette has chosen to go to the movies instead

If you solved either of those problems in fewer than 30 seconds, and you could explain your result so clearly that an 8^th grader would understand—apply for this job.

Content developers create and edit all of the content in Knewton's courses. This includes producing: questions that gauge knowledge of core concepts; test-like questions (GMAT, LSAT, SAT and MCAT) seen by students in homework and practice tests; lessons presented live to students in our online classroom; and text and recorded video content about every core concept. Content Developers also serve as TAs during live classes, answering student questions via chat while an instructor teaches on camera.

Required:

Exceptional intelligence (especially math AND logical reasoning skills).
Outstanding work ethic. We work A LOT. And we enjoy it.

Major plusses:

Test prep experience (GMAT, LSAT, GRE, SAT, ACT, etc.)
Writing/editorial experience
Experience writing proofs

Based in NYC's Union Square, Knewton is poised to transform education with our patent-pending adaptive learning technology and live online video classes. Today, our revenues come from delivering our own test prep classes, but we are quickly expanding into licensing our revolutionary platform to major education companies to power their content. We were chosen as 1 of 7 finalists (out of 1,000 entrants) in Amazon's 2008 Start-Up Challenge.

All full-time positions include benefits at start date and equity in the company.

About Knewton

Knewton has developed the industry’s most powerful adaptive learning engine, customizing educational content to meet the needs of each student. Whereas traditional classrooms and textbooks provide the same material to every student, Knewton dynamically matches lessons, videos, and practice problems to each student's ideal learning arc. Constant assessment across dimensions such as difficulty, frequency, and media maximizes learning efficiency and concept mastery. Knewton's test prep courses for the GMAT, LSAT, and SAT bring the brightest and most experienced teachers directly to students worldwide via a live and on-demand online video classroom. The Knewton platform also powers third-party educational content from major publishers, corporations, and other organizations.

Knewton was founded by Jose Ferreira, a former Kaplan executive, with funding from Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, and prominent angel investors. The company was selected as the AO 250 leader in Digital Education for 2009. Check us out online at www.knewton.com

UX Designer

We're Knewton, an online test prep company with courses that adapts to student's needs. We are smart, creative, ambitious, passionate, and we work REAL fast.

We need help with interaction & interface design for our product. You are a junior designer eager to work on a meaty, worthwhile project. You are also excited, ready for a challenge, and passionate about understanding how people use things.

You may be adept at:
wireframing
sitemaps
work flows
mockups
guidelines
design specs
user observation
usability testing
style guides
questionnaires
heuristic evaluation

But you can definitely:
create high-fidelity user interface designs
take art direction and run with it
work within a design system
have an appreciation for simplicity as a design principle

Bonus:
you can also do front-end development

Send work samples + resume, as well as why you're interested.

Customer Expert

We are Knewton, an exciting online education start-up located in Union Square, NYC, and we want you to join our team!

Position: Customer Expert

Our business is growing and we need another full-time individual to add to our student service team. This person will be on the front lines with our students via email (mostly), phone (a little), and chat (new), helping them to get higher scores and to fully utilize our products. You must love interacting with people, enjoy a fast-paced environment with lots of challenges (see below), and be very attentive to detail. This isn’t your normal customer service position; we’re looking for someone that can grow within our start-up environment and perhaps become a manager as we scale.

Responsibilities:

Interact with our customers (students) through phone, chat and email
Consult potential students on standardized testing, admissions, and other educational topics
Liaise with our Academics, Tech, and Marketing teams to provide top-notch customer care
Know all the features of the Knewton program like the back of your hand
Advocate student issues and needs
Collaborate with our Marketing team on campus marketing, online marketing, and event planning

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree from a top four-year university
0-2 years of experience in: customer service, education, or sales
Experience in test prep (GMAT, LSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, etc.) or teaching a strong plus
Experience with Zendesk, Liveleader, Highrise, SalesForce and other CRM/helpdesk ticketing/chat programs a plus

This is a junior position that will report to the Student Experience Manager. The ideal candidate is eager to learn the ins-and-outs of the company and enjoys a start-up culture (long hours, high energy, lots of smart people, big opportunities, cool office). Must communicate personably and professionally. Should be comfortable chatting online, often handling multiple chats, and using technology in general. Must be neat, organized, and meticulous with records. Definitely outgoing with an upbeat attitude.

Full benefits included. Potential for equity in the company.

Company Description:
Based in Union Square, NYC, Knewton is poised to transform education with our patent-pending adaptive learning technology and live online video classes. Today, our revenues come from delivering our own test prep classes, but we are quickly expanding into licensing our revolutionary platform to major education companies to power their content. We have been attracting attention and winning awards: e.g. being chosen as one of 7 finalists (out of 1,000 entrants) in Amazon's 2008 Start-Up Challenge.

We are extremely intense, smart, fun, and passionate about what we do. We also think we're going to do a lot of good in the world, by making high-quality education easily available, even in under-served communities in the US and in the developing world.