Jobs by tag: "Thinkful"

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here\n\n\nData Science Course Mentor\n\n\n* Mentorship\n\n* Remote\n\n\n\n\n\n* Part time\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho We Are\nAt Thinkful, we believe that if schools put in even half the amount of effort that students do the outcomes would be better for everyone. People would have a path to a fulfilling future, instead of being buried under debt. Employers would benefit from a workforce trained for today. And education could finally offer students a return on their investment of both money and time. \n\nWe put in outlandish amounts of effort to create an education that offers our students a guaranteed return on their investment. we partner with employers to create a world-class curriculum built for today. We go to ends of the earth to find mentors who are the best of the best. We invest more in career services than any of our peers. We work hard to be on the ground in the cities our students are. Simply put, no other school works as hard for its students as we do. \n\n\nThe Position\nStudents enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed technologists. As a Course Mentor, you will support students by acting as an advisor, counselor, and support system as they complete the course and land their first industry job. To achieve this, you will engage with students using the below range of approaches, known as Engagement Formats. Course Mentors are expected to provide support across all formats when needed. \n\n\n\n* Mentor Sessions: Meet with students 1-on-1 in online video sessions to provide technical and professional support as the student progresses through the curriculum.\n\n* Group Sessions: Host online video sessions on topics of your expertise (in alignment with curriculum offerings) for groups of student seeking live support between mentor sessions. \n\n* Grading: Reviewing student checkpoints submissions and delivering written feedback, including analysis of projects and portfolios. \n\n* Technical Coaching: Provide in-demand support to technical questions and guidance requests that come to the Technical Coaching team through text and video in a timely manner. This team also provides the TA support for immersive programs. \n\n* Assessments & Mock Interviews: Conduct 1-on-1 mock interviews and assessments via video calls and provide written feedback to students based on assessment rubrics. \n\n\n\n\nIn addition to working directly with students, Course Mentors are expected to maintain an environment of feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, email, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, rapidly changing environment.\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* Minimum of 3 years professional experience as a Data Scientist or demonstrated expertise with data visualizations and machine learning at an industry level\n\n* Proficiency in SQL, Python\n\n* Professional experience with Hadoop and Spark a plus\n\n* Excellent written and verbal communication\n\n* High level of empathy and people management skills\n\n* Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* This is a part-time role (10-25 hours a week)\n\n* Fully remote position, with the option to work evenings and weekends in person in 22 US cities\n\n* Community of 500+ like-minded Educators looking to impact others and keep their skills sharp\n\n* Full access to all of Thinkful Courses for your continued learning\n\n* Grow as an Educator\n\n\n\n\nApply\nIf you are interested in this position please provide your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in the role.\n\nThinkful can only hire candidates who are eligible to work in the United States.\n\nWe stand against any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Thinkful provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. If you're talented and driven, please apply.\n\nAt this time, we are unable to consider applicants from the following states: Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming\n\nApply here

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here\n\n\nData Analytics Immersion Instructor\n\n\n* Education\n\n* Remote\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription\nStudents enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed software developers. As an Immersive Course Instructor, you will deliver high quality live workshop content based on existing curriculum, preparing students to successfully transition careers. \n\nIn addition to working directly with students, Instructors are expected to maintain an environment of regular, candid feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, email, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, rapidly changing environment. \n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Delivers high quality workshops based on the curriculum materials, and provides live coding demos when appropriate, to supplement written materials and content to provide students with the skills and knowledge to get their first developer job \n\n* Maintains and updates the daily and weekly student syllabus which outlines the required homework and assignments, and deadlines for assessments and projects \n\n* Provides up to 2 hours daily of on-demand video and chat support for students as they move through the program assignments \n\n* Spends up to 4 hours a day prepping for workshops and updating course materials\n\n* Works with the other Format Leads for engagement formats (Mentor Sessions, Group Sessions, Grading, Technical Coaching, Mock Interviews/Assessments) to ensure that consistent experience is happening for students in immersive courses \n\n* Provide constructive feedback to the Instructional Design team on improvements to the course materials and curriculum based on student experience with the materials \n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\n* Strong expertise with Excel, Tableau, PowerPoint, SQL, and Python, and comfort explaining these topics.\n\n* Ability to explain complicated topics clearly and without jargon\n\n* Strong written and verbal communication skills\n\n* High level of detail orientation and an exceptional work ethic\n\n* Enjoy working with people, not just putting your head down and working\n\n* Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection\n\n* Minimum 3-4 years of professional data analytics experience\n\n* Teaching Experience, especially in a remote or online class, is a plus\n\n* Must be eligible to work in the United States \n\n\n\n\nCompensation and Benefit\n\n\n* Ability to work remotely with partially flexible hours \n\n* Access to all available course curriculum for personal use\n\n* Membership to a global community of over 500 Software Engineers, Developers, and Data Scientists who, like you, want to keep their skills sharp and help learners break into the industry\n\n\n\n\nAt this time, we are unable to consider applicants from the following states: Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming\n\nApply here

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cience Specializations Immersion Instructor\n\nApply Here\n\n\n* Education\n\n* Remote\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription\nStudents enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed software developers. As an Immersive Course Instructor, you will deliver high quality live workshop content based on existing curriculum, preparing students to successfully transition careers. As an instructor for the specializations part of program, you will deliver high quality live workshop and help to students on topics such as Time Series Analysis, NLP, Deep Learning (using Tensorflow and Keras), or Big Data (using spark, AWS, and hadoop).\n\nIn addition to working directly with students, Instructors are expected to maintain an environment of regular, candid feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, email, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, rapidly changing environment. \n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* \nDelivers high quality workshops based on the curriculum materials, and provides live coding demos when appropriate, to supplement written materials and content to provide students with the skills and knowledge to get their first developer job \n\n* Maintains and updates the daily and weekly student syllabus which outlines the required homework and assignments, and deadlines for assessments and projects \n\n* Provides up to 2 hours daily of on-demand video and chat support for students as they move through the program assignments \n\n* Spends up to 4 hours a day prepping for workshops and updating course materials\n\n* Works with the other Format Leads for engagement formats (Mentor Sessions, Group Sessions, Grading, Technical Coaching, Mock Interviews/Assessments) to ensure that consistent experience is happening for students in immersive courses \n\n* Provide constructive feedback to the Instructional Design team on improvements to the course materials and curriculum based on student experience with the materials \n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\n* Strong expertise with Time Series Analysis, NLP, Deep Learning (using Tensorflow and Keras), or Big Data (using spark, AWS, and hadoop).\n\n* Strong expertise with with Python, SQL, statistics, supervised and unsupervised learning\n\n* Expertise with Data Structures and Algorithms, and comfort explaining these topics \n\n* Ability to run capstone projects and help students during these weeks from idea to implementation\n\n* Ability to explain complicated topics clearly and without jargon\n\n* Strong written and verbal communication skills\n\n* High level of detail orientation and an exceptional work ethic\n\n* Enjoy working with people, not just putting your head down and working\n\n* Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection\n\n* Minimum 3-4 years of professional data science experience\n\n* Teaching experience, especially in a remote or online class, is a plus\n\n\n\n\nApply here

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Are \nThinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. We provide 1-on-1 learning through our network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. Thinkful offers programs in web development, data science, and design, with in-person communities in up-and-coming tech hubs around the U.S. To join the Thinkful network visit thinkful.com. \n\nJob Description \nThinkful wants to improve upon its flagship product line: Engineering Immersion, Engineering Nights and Weekends, and Engineering Flex. As part of this effort, we're looking for a software engineering subject matter expert to join us in executing on our content roadmap for this exciting new program. You will be improving on a proven program that propels people into a new, impactful career in software engineering.  Together with instructional designers, product managers, and Thinkful educators, you'll help define the educational scope and sequence, produce written and video lessons, create coding challenges, and be the expert who guides other experts in shipping product improvements.  \n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Lead the technical analysis of the Engineering Curriculum scope and sequence\n\n* Create a prioritized plan for curriculum improvement\n\n* Design a scaffolded progression of coding challenges to reach existing milestones\n\n* Guide the work of contributing team members implementing the prioritized plan\n\n* Consistently deliver content that meets spec and is on time to support our program launch roadmap.\n\n* Iterates on deliverables based on user feedback\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years of hands-on Web Development / Software Engineering industry experience \n\n* 1+ years experience in a bootcamp or other intro to programming course\n\n* Demonstrated subject matter expert in JavaScript, React, Node and Posgres. \n\n* Collaborative.You enjoy partnering with people and have excellent project management skills and follow through\n\n* Excellent writing skills. You've got a gift for writing about complicated concepts in a beginner-friendly way. You can produce high-quality prose as well as high-quality presentations.\n\n\n\n\nCompensation and Benefit\n\n\n* Contract position with a collaborative team\n\n* Ability to work remotely with flexible hours \n\n* Access to all available course curriculum for personal use\n\n* Membership to a global community of over 500 Software Engineers, Developers, and Data Scientists who, like you, want to keep their skills sharp and help learners break into the industry\n\n\n\n\nApply\n\n\n* Please include a link to your published educational work or upload a file of representative work in your application\n\n* Please include a short cover letter explaining your interest in the role\n\n* At this time, we are unable to consider applicants from the following states: CA, WA, NJ, MA, OR. \n\n\n

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re Engineering Course Mentor\n\nApply Here\n\n\n* Mentorship\n\n* Remote\n\n\n\n\n\n* Part time contract\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho We Are\nAt Thinkful, we believe that if schools put in even half the amount of effort that students do the outcomes would be better for everyone. People would have a path to a fulfilling future, instead of being buried under debt. Employers would benefit from a workforce trained for today. And education could finally offer students a return on their investment of both money and time. \n\nWe put in outlandish amounts of effort to create an education that offers our students a guaranteed return on their investment. we partner with employers to create a world-class curriculum built for today. We go to ends of the earth to find mentors who are the best of the best. We invest more in career services than any of our peers. We work hard to be on the ground in the cities our students are. Simply put, no other school works as hard for its students as we do. \n\n\nThe Position\nStudents enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed technologists. As a Course Mentor, you will support students by acting as an advisor, counselor, and support system as they complete the course and land their first industry job. To achieve this, you will engage with students using the below range of approaches, known as Engagement Formats. Course Mentors are expected to provide support across all formats when needed. \n\n\n\n* Mentor Sessions: Meet with students 1-on-1 in online video sessions to provide technical and professional support as the student progresses through the curriculum.\n\n* Group Sessions: Host online video sessions on topics of your expertise (in alignment with curriculum offerings) for groups of student seeking live support between mentor sessions. \n\n* Grading: Reviewing student checkpoints submissions and delivering written feedback, including analysis of projects and portfolios. \n\n* Technical Coaching: Provide in-demand support to technical questions and guidance requests that come to the Technical Coaching team through text and video in a timely manner. This team also provides the TA support for immersive programs. \n\n* Assessments & Mock Interviews: Conduct 1-on-1 mock interviews and assessments via video calls and provide written feedback to students based on assessment rubrics. \n\n\n\n\nIn addition to working directly with students, Course Mentors are expected to maintain an environment of feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, email, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, rapidly changing environment.\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years relevant professional work experience\n\n* Proficiency with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery)\n\n* Node.JS and React.JS at an industry level; full MERN stack proficiency a plus\n\n* Demonstrates genuine student advocacy and empathy for beginners\n\n* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills\n\n* Must be coachable and adaptable to a fast-paced work environment\n\n* Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection and webcam\n\n* Teaching, mentoring and/or coaching experience a plus \n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* This is a part-time role (10-25 hours a week)\n\n* Fully remote position, with a flexible schedule  \n\n* Access to all of Thinkful Courses for your continued learning\n\n* Community of 500+ like-minded professionals looking to impact others and keep their skills sharp\n\n* Grow and develop as an educator with your educator experience manager\n\n\n\n\nApply\nIf you are interested in this position please provide your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in the role.\n\nWe stand against any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Thinkful provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. If you're talented and driven, please apply.\n\nThinkful can only hire candidates who are eligible to work in the United States.\nAt this time, we are unable to consider applicants from the following states: CA, WA, NJ, MA.\n\n\n\nApply Here