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CUSTOMER RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGER

Motion Math is hiring

Posted: 10 months, 1 week ago
Employment type: Contractual
Where: San Francisco, California, United States

Description

Motion Math, a pioneer of fun, conceptual mobile math games, is looking to hire a project manager to lead a two-month exploration into better understanding our customers, starting July 2012. We're exploring big questions: what do parents most want for their child's education? How can new mobile technologies create better learning outcomes for kids, parents, and teachers?

You will: • Collaborate with the company co-founders and advisors • Use quantitative and qualitative methods to learn more about our customer needs and wants, including organizing a series of in-person customer interviews • Synthesize findings into customer profiles • Formulate testable hypotheses about product direction • Create and test minimal viable prototypes of digital learning products

Candidates should have an interest in the future of learning, and experience with Design Thinking, the Lean Startup methodology, customer research, and managing collaborative projects. Email jacob@motionmathgames.com to apply and with any questions.

Motion Math creates fun learning games that let kids play with numbers. Our first product, conceived at the Stanford School of Education, made fraction estimation fun and physical and won a Serious Play Gold Medal. A rigorous efficacy study (the first for an iPad educational app) found the game improved test scores 15% and attitudes towards fractions by 10% – watch a 2 min TV piece at http://bit.ly/abcmotionmath to learn more. Our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th learning games have received rave reviews, promotion by Apple, #5 rankings in the Education category, and over 1 millon total downloads. We're backed by a world-class group of angel investors, including Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure, and Mike Wood (the founder of LeapFrog), and we've been featured in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wired, WSJ, Forbes, PBS's NewsHour, and the NYT. Most importantly: kids, parents, and teachers love our products. www.motionmathgames.com

About the person recruiting

hiring manager recruiter

Rana Alrabi

Public Relations Strategist offering unique perspectives and original approaches to inform and influence

I am a public relations strategist who thrives on engaging all societal actors to promote positive awareness and involvement on local and global issues. I am passionate about applying unique media and public relations to the environmental, humanitarian, community and corporate responsibility spheres. I am fluent in Arabic, English, French and Spanish with superior public speaking and written communication skills. I have 10 years experience in counselling the leadership of organisations in the fields of health care, education and research, community building, and international relations on strengthening their organisational identity, and developing, applying and evaluating communications that highlight their value to respective stakeholders. My graduate degrees in Management of Nonprofit Organizations and in Public Relations equip me with up to date expertise in strategic planning, public relations, and fundraising with a focus on harnessing the power of media. My research papers identify applications of emerging trends for organisations such as evaluating the return on investment of public relations, building productive government relations, and the benefits of project management in international cooperation.

About the company

Company profile

Motion Math

Motion Math creates intuitive, physical gameplay for math's most difficult fundamentals. Our first product, a fractions number line game, has received critical acclaim, including a profile in the Wall Street Journal, an Excellence in Design Award from Children's Technology Review, the Startl Jury Award, and runner-up prizes for Most Innovative and Most Likely To Succeed from SIIA. Get it now at http:bit.ly/motionmath

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