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ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH OUR CAREERS PAGE TO BE CONSIDERED:

About the Organization:

SmartCourse.io is a NEW high-growth, accelerated, technology-based, social impact startup optimizing education and healthcare for kids with special needs and their caregivers. Caregivers like parents, educators, and health professionals spend too many years and too much money trying to treat kids with special needs or mental health issues. Our products help them to do it in weeks, for a fraction of the cost, using digital products to educate these caregivers on how to best care for and teach kids with special needs so that they can meet their social, behavioral, and academic goals.

We also plan to make technologies that optimize individual learning and caregiving for schools/educators, parents, and health professionals (B2B and/or B2G). We also plan to offer our products to large enterprises (e.g. Amazon, Walmart, etc.) to include them as part of their health benefits for their employees with special needs or with family members who have special needs.

Ever present is the end in mind: revolutionizing the education and healthcare systems for all kids everywhere since the whole world will soon have access to the internet. We are already on our way to achieving this by working with:
  • World-leading health professionals (e.g. psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral therapists, etc.)
  • Educators (e.g. school admins, special education teachers, etc.)
  • Startup mentors, advisors, and incubators/accelerators (e.g. Teachable's EdTech Incubator, Startup Boost's Pre-Accelerator, Hubspot's Growth Accelerator, HealthVenture's HealthTech accelerator, the world's largest EdTech accelerator: StartEd, and YCombinator's Startup School) Our advisers include professors, researchers, EdTech founders, HealthTech founders, product managers, venture capitalists, and investors.
Duties & Responsibilities:

We are looking for many different kinds of professionals you can see on our careers page: smartcourse.io/careers
  • Take ownership of our team's OKRs &; KPIs, and deliver in advance of deadlines with Agile Methodology using Asana, Slack, and GSuite
  • Improve our products, satisfaction scores, NPS, & our north star metric (# of products per user) using hard skills explained throughout the application
  • Formulate strategic and operational objectives
  • Examine financial data and use them to improve profitability
  • Manage budgets and forecasts
  • Perform quality controls and monitor production KPIs
  • Embody our team-wide core values of autonomy, growth-mindedness, individual and group empowerment, selflessness, fearlessness, and perseverance, and our team-specific values we'll be looking for throughout your application
  • Display exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills (proactive communication)
  • Have a passion for social change, learning, education, healthcare, technology, and/or startups
Team-Wide Requirements:
  • Must have at least 2 years of professional work experience or equivalent (e.g. research, internships, demonstrated skill)
  • Have a track record of success in academic and/or professional settings
  • Willing to work as an intern or early-stage employee in exchange for a kickass learning experience, commission, bonuses, profit-share, and/or an equity-based payment plan depending on your performance (determined over a 14 to 30-day trial period and discussed on an individual basis.)
  • Full-time (40+ hours/week) (Preferred) OR Part-time (20+ hours/week)
  • For an immediate start, end dates are negotiable throughout the year.
  • We're based in NYC, but all positions can be entirely remote, and we've had many outstanding colleagues all over the world.
  • Are skilled (or wish to be) in, team building games, Among Us, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and/or a team-building game of your choosing!
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