Senior Technical Support Specialist, Khan Kids

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ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY KIDS

Khan Academy Kids is a free and fun learning program for children ages two to eight. Kodi Bear and a cast of animated characters lead children on a personalized education journey filled with fun standards-aligned activities in early literacy math executive functioning and social-emotional skills. Built by a small but mighty team Khan Academy Kids is used by millions of children in homes and classrooms around the world.

OUR COMMUNITY

Our students teachers and parents come from all walks of life and so do team includes people from academia traditional/non-traditional education big tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company value diversity equity inclusion and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

THE ROLE

The Senior Technical Support Specialist will serve as the primary owner of the Khan Academy Kids support function the trusted first point of contact for our users and a strategic partner to our Product Engineering and Partnerships teams. This is a build role: youll own the end-to-end support experience for Khan Kids designing the systems and processes that make it run while staying in the work yourself across everything from individual parent inquiries to district-level app deployments and product release readiness.

This role supports all of Khan Kids audiences. Youll context-switch between a parent troubleshooting an app issue and a district IT admin navigating a Clever integration and youll bring the same care technical fluency and follow-through to both. Youll also serve as the internal voice of our users surfacing trends and insights that directly inform how we build and improve our product.

This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in the US or Canada. Proximity to our San Mateo CA office is a plus as the Khan Kids Product and Engineering team is based there.

Key Responsibilities:

The approximate time allocations below reflect a typical distribution but will shift seasonally based on user needs. For example during back-to-school season district and partner support will naturally take a larger share of focus.

Grassroots User Support (40%)

• Own our Zendesk account end-to-end managing inbound tickets from parents teachers and app store reviews with prompt accurate and empathetic responses while also configuring workflows macros and tagging taxonomies to handle growing volume efficiently.
• Define track and report on core support metrics including first response time resolution time and ticket volume using data and AI tools to surface patterns drive process improvements and bring structured insights to Product and Engineering.
• Surface replicate and document user-reported bugs and ticket trends serving as the go-between for users and the Product and Engineering teams to ensure issues are tracked resolved and informing the roadmap.
• Maintain and improve our Help Center and technical user guides writing and updating support articles FAQs troubleshooting guides release notes and device-specific resources (e.g. Google Admin Console guides for Chromebook deployments) leveraging AI tools for efficient content creation.
• Serve as first responder for user-facing incidents coordinating with Engineering on triage communicating status to affected users and partners and documenting post-mortems.
• Conduct regular testing of the Khan Kids app experience including structured competitor analysis of peer apps to proactively surface friction points and keep support content accurate as the product evolves.

Partner & District Support (40%)

• Support district rostering via Clever and manual methods serving as a knowledgeable resource for district IT administrators navigating app deployment and setup.
• Triage test and track technical support issues for district and school partners leading technical support calls as needed to resolve complex issues.
• Collaborate with our District Success Team to write and maintain district-facing support resources ensuring partners have what they need to successfully deploy and scale Khan Kids in their schools.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with district and school partners ensuring a high level of satisfaction and long-term engagement

Product Release Support (20%)

• Partner with Product and Engineering to coordinate QA testing ahead of app updates new features and content launches and develop corresponding support resources so users and partners are prepared from day one.
• Maintain a close working relationship with the broader Khan Academy support team to align on tools standards and escalation processes.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5 years of experience in customer support technical support or a related field ideally in an EdTech or consumer app environment.
• Hands-on experience with Zendesk or a comparable support ticketing platform including account configuration and management not just day-to-day use.
• Experience supporting educational deployments including rostering platforms (e.g. Clever ClassLink) mobile device management (e.g. JAMF Mosyle) and admin consoles (e.g. Google Admin Apple School Manager) or a demonstrated ability to learn complex technical ecosystems quickly.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical mindset comfortable using ticket data trends and user feedback to identify patterns and inform decisions.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong follow-through.
• A self-starter who thrives with ownership and can manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Motivated by the Khan Academy mission to provide a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness awareness of other and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives attitudes and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.
• A collaborative team player who works well across Product Engineering and Partnerships teams.

Nice to haves

• Familiarity with the Khan Academy Kids app and product.
• Familiarity with AI tools (e.g. Claude Cursor) for content creation and support workflows.
• Spanish language proficiency.
• Proximity to our San Mateo CA office

PERKS AND BENEFITS

We may be a non-profit but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer:

• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed Your well-being is a priority
• 8 pre-scheduled Wellness Days in 2026 occurring on a Monday or a Friday for a 3-day weekend boost
• Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone with open flexibility as needed at times
• Generous parental leave
• An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
• The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Opportunities to connect through affinity ally and social groups
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical dental vision and life

At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices the well-being of our employees and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries and extensive benefits and perks to support physical mental and financial compensation band for this role is $96800 - $108900 USD annually for candidates based in the United States and $130807 - $147158 CAD annually for candidates based in Canada.

The pay range for this position is a general guideline only. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidates relevant skills experience qualifications and job market data.

MORE ABOUT US

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• Our team: COMPANY VALUES

  Live & breathe learners

  We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights research and experience to build content products services and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.

  Take a stand

  As a company we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However we also listen learn and flex in the face of new data and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.

  Embrace diverse perspectives

  We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made we commit to moving forward as a united team.

  Work responsibly and sustainably

  We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.

  Bring out the joy

  We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates partners and donors.

  Cultivate learning mindset

  We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings ourselves and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and arent afraid to fail. We dont let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.

  Deliver wow

  We insist on high standards and deliver delightful effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things each of which aligns to our ambitious vision so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.

  We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex gender gender identity or expression national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability or Veteran status. We value diversity equity and inclusion and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.
  
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