Head of Learning
A life-changing role for an impact-oriented online educator who wants to make their mark in the EdTech world.
A bit about you:
You're a passionate educator with previous experience in online learning and second language acquisition. You want to apply your significant design-thinking and product development skills to the ultimate opportunity; developing a new, category defining online language learning product that has far-reaching societal impact with every lesson taught.
Working within a cross-disciplinary team of content creators, designer, engineers and marketers, you will be responsible for steering the future direction of Chatterbox's award-winning language learning product and launching several exciting new features (as well as a few of your own). You'll be rolling your sleeves up and making things happen yourself, rather than primarily overseeing or managing others, including conducting user research to building prototypes.
Essential skills & experiences include:
- a deep understanding of language education/second language acquisition
- experience developing online learning products
- a deep knowledge of design-thinking and product development frameworks and processes
- previous leadership or project management experience
- the ability to conduct research and read and interpret quantitative as well as qualitative data
- the ability to build and lead high performing teams
- flexibility and being able to deal with the ambiguity and lack of structure inherent in early stage startups
This hands-on role will involve:
- STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: Leading the overall strategy and direction of learning at Chatterbox, contributing to and enhancing our product strategy and learning philosophy
- EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Hands on researching, ideating, prototyping and iterating new learning technologies and evangelising key learning design methodologies within the product team
- MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT: Overseeing and coordinating the creation of new language learning curricula across multiple languages, ensuring the quality of pedagogy
- PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: Owning delivery of the Chatterbox learning product within a cross-disciplinary team encompassing product, learning, engineering, and marketing
- LEADERSHIP: Contributing to overall business strategy as part of Chatterbox’s senior leadership team
- TEAM MANAGEMENT: Building a high performing agile team of content creators and instructional designers
- TEACHER TRAINING: Overseeing training of Chatterbox coaches and language helpers
- PARTNERSHIPS: Initiating and managing academic research partnerships
- ROLLING YOUR SLEEVES UP: We’re a young start-up and you’ll be working on lots of fun things outside of your job description
Other than a competitive salary, we're proud to support our team members with:
TOP MENTORS
We're a VC-backed startup looking to produce systemic change by unlocking talent in marginalised communities. We’re supported by some of the best early stage partners in the world, including startup studios All Turtles, Founders Factory, and GMG Ventures. They will become a part of your team too.
REMOTE WORK
The Chatterbox founders first started working together between the sandy beaches of Lisbon and the cityscapes of London. Today, we’re a global and remote-first company with an office in both tech hubs. You can choose to work from either of our offices in Lisbon or London, or 100% remotely from anywhere in the world - whatever suits you best, as long as you’re functional in GMT.
SOCIAL EVENTS
We’ve always worked remotely so know a thing or two about how to build thriving working relationships and a close-knit company culture remotely, currently across 5 countries. For those who like in-person events, we have quarterly team retreats, co-working and socials in London/Lisbon, and a ‘Chatterbox House’ in each city to host members of our team overnight if they would like to visit.
WORLD-CHANGING IMPACT
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” Joining us, you will be working on a social problem that genuinely matters; the global opportunity gap that causes talented people from marginalised backgrounds to become long-term unemployed. As an early stage startup, your work with us will have an even bigger impact on the future of our company and movement.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Because you can't be superwoman or superman without the right cape and boots. We offer magical quarterly team retreats, an annual personal learning budget, and the opportunity to invest in your own success with EMI-qualifying share options in Chatterbox. Oh, and unlimited free language learning (naturally 😉).
A bit more about Chatterbox:
Founded by an award winning social entrepreneur and a Y-combinator alum, Chatterbox is on a mission to shake things up in the labour market by connecting the world's most talented, yet marginalised, people with opportunities in the online economy. Our AI-powered, multi-award winning language learning platform matches marginalised people in need of work with opportunities in the digital economy.
Our startup has sparked interest from the likes of the Guardian and the BBC, as well as backing from leading investors in Europe and Silicon Valley, as a social innovation capable of radically and permanently tipping the scales towards a more just global economy. This is a rare opportunity to work in a high-growth, VC-backed startup with global social impact embedded at it’s core - supporting an incredible yet marginalised community who inspire and motivate our team every day. Join us and spend your time and skills building technology that really matters, from the ground up, with a global team of industry leaders.
Other details about the role:
- Location: Remote
- Salary: £40-55k per annum, depending on years of experience in similar role
Some important stuff we would like you to know:
We believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we want to make sure that our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. So if you need any reasonable adjustments – at any point in the process – we’ll do our best to help. Just let us know what you need on your application form or reply with your request to the email we send you after you have applied.
We’re also usually hiring several roles at once - if you recommend someone who lands any of our paid roles we can offer you a reward of £250 to thank you for adding another valuable member to our family. You can also sign up to hear about future roles on this career site.
- Department
- Leadership
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Our Workplace & Culture
The Chatterbox team and founders work remotely, mostly around the sandy beaches of Lisbon and the cityscapes of London. We’re supported by some of the best investors in the world; like AI Startup Studio All Turtles and Founders Factory. They will become part of your team too.
About Chatterbox
Chatterbox's AI-powered platform matches refugees and marginalised people in need of work with opportunities in the digital economy. We’ve won recognition from Forbes, the Financial Times, the BBC, and many more.
Head of Learning
A life-changing role for an impact-oriented online educator who wants to make their mark in the EdTech world.
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