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Curriculum Specialist

Osmo believes that it is critical to find the right balance between education and fun. If our products are not educational, we’re not helping kids. If our products are not fun, kids won’t play. If you’re passionate about making learning AS engaging as possible to a kid, then you’ve found the right place!

Osmo is looking for someone with experience in children’s education to design curriculum-based games/products for kids while maintaining education and testing connections that ensure our products achieve our educational goals.

The primary responsibilities for the position include: a) contribute to the design and specifically represent the educational aspects for the project's whole lifecycle, b) build and review content to ensure it is developmentally appropriate and effective in its goals, c) conduct qualitative research with parents and kids and present findings to the team on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, game designers, and key stakeholders to create compelling products that measurably teach kids
• Participate in brainstorming and design specifically with education in mind; acting to balance our engagement-first philosophy with actual learning
• Map gameplay mechanics and interactions to standards, evaluating their effectiveness, and providing feedback to the teams
• Design scaffolding, instruction, and hint systems for games
• Build content (levels, voiceover scripts) that is developmentally appropriate, satisfies educational goals, and is engaging to children
• Playtest effectively with kids to gauge the appeal and efficacy of a product
• Assist with the coordination of playtesting and alpha/beta testing (mailing of materials, arranging times with parents)

Qualifications

• 5+ years combined experience working with children (from 3 years old to upper elementary) and/or developing educational products for them
• Ability to think creatively, iterate rapidly, participate in an environment where we need to balance competing priorities
• Self-managing; driven and motivated
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience teaching reading (particularly phonics and assessing a child’s reading level)
• Knowledge of elementary school math curriculum
• Familiarity with a variety of reading level assessments (i.e. Lexile, Fountas and Pinnell), and knowledge of how to determine a child’s reading level
• Flexibility to work with multiple teams each with their own goals and processes
• Bonus: Experience working on educational products and/or converting educational goals into game design

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