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Head of Data and Analytics

Novakid is an online English learning platform for children aged 4-12, utilizing gamification, AI, and one-on-one lessons with native-speaking teachers to provide an immersive and personalized educational experience.

Novakid School

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At Novakid, we’re building one of the world’s most engaging online English-learning platforms for kids. Today, we serve 100,000+ students and work with 4,000 + teachers across 15+ countries.

We’ve already proven the demand. Now we’re scaling the platform, expanding AI-driven learning experiences, and rethinking how our backend should evolve for the next stage of growth.

This is where you come in.

About the Role

Novakid is hiring a Head of Data & Analytics to lead the next stage of our analytics evolution — transforming a strong existing foundation into a modern, AI-enabled decision system that scales with the business.

This is a strategic leadership role with broad scope: you'll own the analytics organization, the technology transformation, data science, and the data culture across the company. You won't be starting from scratch — you'll be accelerating a transformation already underway.

What You'll Lead

Analytics Strategy & Operating Model Define how data and analytics supports growth, product development, commercial performance, and operations. Shape what is self-serve, AI-assisted, automated, and expert-led.

Analytics Team Leadership Lead a team of analysts embedded across product squads and business functions. Raise the bar on speed, strategic impact, and self-service enablement while keeping analysts focused on the highest-value work.

AI-Powered Analytics Scale practical AI use cases: natural-language data access, AI-assisted insight generation, anomaly detection, automated reporting, and productivity tooling for analysts and stakeholders.

Experimentation & A/B Testing Strengthen Novakid's experimentation culture — making it faster and easier to design, launch, measure, and learn from experiments without heavy analyst involvement at every step.

Data Science Build a structured, high-impact data science capability spanning ML for business use cases, forecasting, experimentation support, AI-powered product features, and research for new learning experiences.

Metric Governance & Data Foundation Drive clearer KPI ownership, stronger documentation, and a trusted semantic layer across Product, Growth, Sales, Marketing, and Finance — reducing ambiguity and conflicting interpretations.

What Success Looks Like

  • Faster turnaround on common business questions and broader stakeholder self-service

  • A modern AI-enabled analytics capability adopted across the company

  • A stronger experimentation practice with less dependency on analyst bandwidth

  • Clear KPI ownership and trusted, well-documented data

  • A well-structured data science function supporting both business and product innovation

  • Strong executive confidence in data-driven decision-making

Requirements

What We're Looking For

  • Significant leadership experience in analytics, BI, or data functions within high-growth digital businesses

  • Proven track record transforming analytics toward scalable, self-serve, AI-enabled models

  • Strong technical grounding in modern data stacks, cloud warehouses (we use BigQuery), BI tooling, and semantic modeling

  • Hands-on SQL fluency and solid understanding of analytics engineering principles

  • Experience leading or reshaping embedded analyst teams

  • Practical, hands-on experience applying AI in analytics at scale

  • Experience building or rebuilding a data science function spanning business support and product features

What we offer…

  • Fully remote work

  • A chance to shape the future of AI-driven education.

  • A fun, dynamic team that loves building innovative products.Unlimited holidays – because we trust you to deliver.

  • Bonuses and stock options – we grow together

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Open to candidates from all countries.

Hiring timezones

Worldwide

About Novakid School

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Novakid Inc. is a prominent player in the global EdTech industry, specializing in online English as a Second Language (ESL) education for children aged 4-12. Founded in 2017 by Max Azarov and Dmitry Malin, the company has established itself as a leading platform for immersive language learning. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Novakid operates on a fully remote basis, with a vast network of teachers and students spanning across more than 50 countries. The company's core mission is to revolutionize the way children learn English by providing an engaging, effective, and fun educational experience. By leveraging a combination of gamification, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI), Novakid creates a dynamic and interactive learning environment where children can thrive. The platform offers one-on-one lessons with certified native or near-native English-speaking teachers, ensuring personalized attention and a curriculum tailored to each child's individual needs and learning pace.

The educational methodology at Novakid is rooted in the principles of full immersion and the Total Physical Response (TPR) approach, where teachers utilize gestures, facial expressions, and movements to facilitate comprehension and retention. The curriculum is aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and is designed to make learning intuitive, much like acquiring a native language. The platform's gamified features, including virtual tours, in-lesson games, animated stories, and a rewards system, are instrumental in maintaining high levels of student engagement. Novakid's commitment to innovation is further demonstrated by its use of AI-driven data analysis to track student progress across numerous parameters, allowing for continuous optimization of the learning journey. Having delivered millions of lessons to hundreds of thousands of students, Novakid continues to expand its global footprint, driven by a vision to make high-quality education accessible to every child and to foster a global community of young, confident English speakers.

Employee benefits

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Flexible working hours

Flexible working hours.

Remote position

Teach from the comfort of your home.

Equity benefits

Bonuses and stock options – we grow together.

Unlimited time off

Unlimited holidays – because we trust you to deliver.

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