A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves over eleven million students in all 50 states.
Our Research and Measurement team is looking for a Data Scientist to inform business strategy, product direction, and efficacy. This is a team that seeks empirical answers to crucial questions about Amplify's curriculum products. Are students succeeding? How is success evaluated? Under what conditions are students most successful? What improvements should Amplify make to its curriculum products and services to optimize success? How might schools make more effective use of Amplify products?
As a senior data scientist at Amplify you will lead the development of an analytic data model for a new product offering. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a product from its inception through commercial launch. You will work with the research team to implement data features and design models to demonstrate student growth and measure the new product's effectiveness. These goals will require you to be actively involved in all aspects of the data pipeline from advising on data collection to writing reports and then driving product improvements based on your findings. At Amplify, data scientists work as embedded members of cross-functional teams with learning scientists, psychometricians, product owners, engineers, and others. You'll play an active role in imagining and improving product design and the classroom experience.
Responsibilities of the Sr. Data Scientist:

• Use appropriate statistical methods to measure knowledge acquisition, recommend differentiation of learning opportunities, and evaluate content efficacy
• Analyze usage and engagement data from Amplify's digital learning platforms, apps, and features to recommend product and content improvements.
• Design and document data collection requirements for measuring student outcomes
• Transform raw source data into analytics-ready data models using reproducible tools
• Write clear, concise, and accurate documentation
• Build event collection schemas for new apps and features
• Define and implement metrics that measure product performance and guide strategic decisions in close partnership with content and business teams
• Provide data analyses to product prototypes, internal reports, case studies, white papers, and educational research
• Improve data literacy across the organization through the example of your work and coaching cross-functional team members.

Basic Qualifications of the Sr. Data Scientist:

• 2+ years of experience in a data science, analytics, or research role.
• Expertise in SQL
• Proficiency with statistical learning methods, e.g. GLM, latent variable models, tree based methods
• Experience conducting quantitative research with R.
• Experience coordinating projects across diverse teams.
• Ability to learn and adopt new tools and methods
• Advanced written and verbal English proficiency with experience presenting to key partners
• Strong research background and experience driving self-directed projects

Preferred Qualifications of the Sr. Data Scientist:

• Graduate degree in a science or other quantitative field
• Demonstrated application of software development methodology and protocols, including version control and testing
• Experience deploying services into production environments using AWS or comparable tools.
• Experience using business intelligence tools, e.g., Looker, Mode, Tableau, etc
• Experience using cloud environments, especially Snowflake and S3
• Experience using web technologies, especially APIs and JSON
• Background in education or in edtech, ideally in intelligent tutoring systems

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.