Wayfinder

Director of Impact – Evaluation

Wayfinder

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

PythonSQL

About the role

  • Inform Wayfinder’s organizational approach to measuring student, teacher, and school-level outcomes across all products.
  • Design and implement mixed-methods evaluation frameworks to assess the efficacy and ROI of Wayfinder programs and tools.
  • Create models, dashboards, and data stories that clearly demonstrate Wayfinder’s impact to users.
  • Identify the outcomes that Wayfinder can influence and establish realistic attribution/causation narratives.
  • Produce compelling one-off reports, case studies, dashboards, and insights for district partners and internal teams.
  • Communicate complex insights in clear, educator-friendly ways for external and internal stakeholders.
  • Maintain trusted, accurate data pipelines and ensure clean, consistent data sources.
  • Conduct regular analysis of product data to identify the features and behavior patterns that most strongly drive usage and retention, and recommend initiatives and product enhancements that deepen and expand those high-impact areas.
  • Make recommendations for product features that enable schools to self-assess their Wayfinder impact.
  • Evaluate and refine internal data collection practices to improve the reliability, validity, and usability of insights.
  • Work with the Customer Success and Sales teams to support data-informed conversations with districts.
  • Train internal teams on how to understand and use data to articulate Wayfinder’s efficacy.
  • Collaborate with research partners, academic institutions, or third-party evaluators when needed.
  • Build and maintain an overarching theory of change for Wayfinder.
  • Advise leadership on impact strategy and ensure alignment across product, implementation, and research.
  • Monitor the evolving SEL/Whole Child/Character Ed research landscape and bring evidence-based thinking into Wayfinder’s roadmap.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in program evaluation, education research, data analytics, or a similar role.
  • Deep understanding of K–12 systems, including how schools, districts, and educators make decisions and define success.
  • Strong data analysis skills (e.g., Excel, SQL, Python/R)
  • Comfort with product analytics tools (i.e. Mixpanel, Amplitude, and Hotjar)
  • Expertise in data visualization and building impactful dashboards/presentations.
  • Proven ability to communicate complex data insights to non-technical audiences.
  • Experience developing or working with theories of change, logic models, or educational frameworks.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with product, engineering, or cross-functional teams on data-related initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of measurement principles (validity, reliability, survey design, outcomes rubrics, etc.).
  • Experience working in edtech, SEL, student success, or instructional technology companies (preferred).
  • Direct experience working in schools, districts, or education nonprofits (preferred).
  • Experience leading mixed-methods research projects (quantitative + qualitative) (preferred).
  • Experience building customer-facing dashboards or reporting tools within software (preferred).
  • Experience presenting program impact to senior district leaders or external partners (preferred).
  • Graduate degree in education, data science, psychology, program evaluation, public policy, or related fields (preferred).
Benefits
  • Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing venture-backed company.
  • 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
  • Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
  • Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
  • Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision policies.
  • Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
  • Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations.
  • Learning: Learning & Development Opportunities to grow your skills and career.
  • Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference!
  • Flexible culture: We are results-focused. We don’t work at the office every day.
  • And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data analysisExcelSQLPythonRdata visualizationmixed-methods researchtheories of changelogic modelssurvey design
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationtrainingadvisinganalysisreportinginsight generationstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingstrategic thinking
Certifications
graduate degree in educationgraduate degree in data sciencegraduate degree in psychologygraduate degree in program evaluationgraduate degree in public policy