Personalization Lead
Knowunity
Full-time
Remote
Germany
About us
We are Knowunity, Europe's fastest growing EdTech app.
Our goal is to create a future where every student can access, enjoy, and benefit from quality education. Since our founding in 2020, we have been committed to revolutionizing how students learn and engage with educational content globally. Today, we are the daily learning companion of over 13 million students across 10 countries in Europe and the Americas. We bring together a global peer-to-peer community that supports each other throughout school, with a goal to expand this community to 20 million students by 2024 and beyond.
With over $25 million in funding from leading venture capital firms and angel investors, including Project A, Redalpine, Stride, Mario Götze, and Verena Pausder, we are heavily focused on building the AI-driven daily learning companion for students worldwide. Together, we are leading the transformation to make education accessible, social, and impactful for all.
Become part of our educational revolution - we are ready to change the world!
Our goal is to create a future where every student can access, enjoy, and benefit from quality education. Since our founding in 2020, we have been committed to revolutionizing how students learn and engage with educational content globally. Today, we are the daily learning companion of over 13 million students across 10 countries in Europe and the Americas. We bring together a global peer-to-peer community that supports each other throughout school, with a goal to expand this community to 20 million students by 2024 and beyond.
With over $25 million in funding from leading venture capital firms and angel investors, including Project A, Redalpine, Stride, Mario Götze, and Verena Pausder, we are heavily focused on building the AI-driven daily learning companion for students worldwide. Together, we are leading the transformation to make education accessible, social, and impactful for all.
Become part of our educational revolution - we are ready to change the world!
Your mission
We are looking for a motivated Personalization Lead who will lead the building of recommendation algorithms that will further enhance the learning experience for our users. As Personalization Lead, you will join our team of highly experienced developers, leading our ML engineers and be directly reporting to Lucas Hild, Knowunity Co-Founder and CTO.
Your mission will be to...
Your mission will be to...
- Lead a team of machine learning engineers in a fast-paced engineering culture
- Lead the building of large-scale recommendation algorithms and systems, including content recommendations in Knowunity
- Productionise recommendation algorithms for over 12 Million students
- Extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently
- Closely collaborate with the search team to improve search relevance through recommendations
- Shape the recommendation system at Knowunity and thereby helping students succeed
- Play an integral part in the expansion of Europe's fastest growing EdTech Startup
- Have direct impact with your decisions on millions of students from around the globe
Your story
- First experience in leading engineers
- Experience in building personalization and recommender systems (e.g. collaborative filtering, matrix factorization, deep neural networks)
- Strong interest in product
- Ability and desire to rapidly learn new technologies and use different approaches to problem solving
- Business fluent in English
- You believe in the power of speed and execution and love to get your hands dirty
- You are obsessed to serve the user and strive to deliver over sticking to processes
What we offer
Memberships: Urban Sports Club, become.1, Likeminded
Discounts: corporate benefits, FutureBens, Plantclub
Events: Team events, company events, sports & wellbeing events
Development: Personal development budget, hackathons, mentoring
Office: Breakfast, fruits & snacks, coffee, tea & soft drinks, dog friendly
Remote: Hybrid work, travel budget, team workations
Our Tech Stack
Discounts: corporate benefits, FutureBens, Plantclub
Events: Team events, company events, sports & wellbeing events
Development: Personal development budget, hackathons, mentoring
Office: Breakfast, fruits & snacks, coffee, tea & soft drinks, dog friendly
Remote: Hybrid work, travel budget, team workations
Our Tech Stack
How to apply
Did we spark your interest to join our educational revolution? Click on "Apply for this job" and submit our short application form. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements.
We can't wait to hear from you!
At Knowunity, we actively foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that ensures equal opportunity for all qualified applicants, regardless of nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or marital status. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.
We can't wait to hear from you!
At Knowunity, we actively foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that ensures equal opportunity for all qualified applicants, regardless of nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or marital status. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.
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