Senior Data Scientist

Today, 67% of students and 82% of low-income students can’t read at grade level by the end of third grade. That’s when students are supposed to go from learning to read to reading to learn. It’s America’s number one education crisis and we know how to fix it.

Ignite Reading delivers one-to-one virtual tutoring that teaches every student the foundational skills they need to become a confident, fluent reader. We pair students who need extra support with expert reading tutors who provide daily, 15-minute, Science of Reading-based instruction that rapidly closes their decoding gaps. We focus on the foundational reading skills—phonics, phonemic awareness, and sight words—kids need to master so they can decode a sentence. Students in Ignite Reading’s program achieve over 2 weeks of reading skills growth per week of instruction, and notably all students achieve the same outstanding results including students with IEPs, multilingual learners, students of color and those receiving free or reduced-price lunch.

Ignite Reading is a mission-driven public benefit corporation. We believe we can do well for our team members and shareholders while we solve one of the nation’s biggest challenges. We believe we will be more successful with a diverse team and are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

YOUR ROLE

Ignite Reading's mission is to teach every kid to read — and turning data into decisions is one of the most powerful ways the organization advances that work. In service of that goal, the Senior Data Scientist supports our partner-facing teams (Partnerships/Sales, Marketing, CX) as the Data & Analytics team's primary practitioner of advanced analytics, statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning. This role is a senior individual contributor who applies DS/ML to generate actionable insights for the business, directly shaping how the organization acquires, retains, and grows partnerships with scho...