Lead Psychometrician

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company with products used by 14 million students worldwide, is seeking a lead psychometrician to manage its growing psychometrician team. Your role will be to recruit, hire, and manage psychometricians who will oversee the technical quality of IXL's specialized assessments. In this role, you'll play a key role in advancing IXL's assessment strategy, as well as conducting and publishing analyses to ensure fair, accurate, and equitable assessment experiences for all learners. You'll also collaborate with curriculum designers, research scientists, product managers, and software engineers to create, maintain, and improve student assessments. 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Recruit, hire, and manage a team of psychometricians to develop and maintain cutting-edge, computer-adaptive tests for K–12 education, including universal screening and diagnostic assessments for math and ELA
• Work with company leaders to define the vision of IXL's assessment products
• Conduct validity research, document development processes, and create technical reports
• Collaborate with content experts to create and curate item pools
• Work with product managers to design students' test-taking experience and user-facing reports
• Create and maintain project schedules and workflows; communicate project goals and estimates to stakeholders
• Communicate technical psychometric concepts to all stakeholders, including non-technical audiences

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Ph.D. in Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Quantitative Psychology, Statistics, or a related field
• 5+ years of active experience in new test development, computer-adaptive testing, item pool maintenance, standard-setting, equating, and validity studies
• 2+ years in a personnel management role along with a strong ability to inspire, lead, and motivate others
• Superior organizational skills, ability to prioritize, and decision-making skills
• Can-do attitude with an openness to others' ideas
• Willingness to innovate and find new, efficient solutions to complex problems
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, including the ability to summarize complex technical information and communicate it to a variety of audiences
• Fluency in computer/statistical programming (e.g., R, Python, SQL, etc.)
• Familiarity with K–12 education is a plus

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At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.