Just Right Reader

Role Description The Strategy & Intelligence Coordinator supports Just Right Reader's strategic growth efforts by monitoring, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information related to education policy, funding opportunities, curriculum adoption, legislation, partnerships, and market opportunities. Reporting to the Director of Strategy, this role serves as the operational and intelligence backbone of the Strategy function. The Coordinator ensures timely identification of emerging opportunities, maintains strategic intelligence systems, manages information workflows, and produces actionable insights that support executive decision-making, market expansion, funding strategies, and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is highly organized, intellectually curious, skilled at synthesizing large amounts of information, and eager to leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to improve research, intelligence gathering, and operational efficiency. Within the first year, this candidate will: - Establish reliable systems for monitoring and organizing strategic intelligence. - Improve our visibility into partnership opportunities. - Deliver actionable findings to leadership. - Increase operational efficiency through the use of technology. - Strengthen organizational awareness of emerging opportunities. - Support the research and administrative work of the strategy team. Qualifications - Required: Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Political Science, Education, Government, Public Administration, Business, Communications, or related field. - 2-5 years of experience in research, strategy, policy, government affairs, education, consulting, market intelligence, or related fields. - Strong analytical, research, and organizational skills. - Exceptional written communication and information synthesis abilities. - Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and research tools. - Preferred: Experience with legislative, policy, funding, or education-related research. - Familiarity with curriculum adoption processes, education funding, or literacy initiatives. - Experience using AI tools to support research, analysis, workflow management, knowledge organization, or business operations (ChatGPT, Claude, Grammarly, Gemini, NotebookLM, Grok, Quincy). - Experience with intelligence, CRM, project management, and legislative tracking platforms (e.g., Quorum, GovWin, HubSpot). Requirements - Monitor state and federal developments related to literacy, education, curriculum adoption, funding, early childhood education, family engagement, and related policy areas. - Research emerging market opportunities, strategic partnerships, and competitive developments. - Maintain state profiles, market intelligence resources, and strategic opportunity trackers. - Prepare concise summaries, executive briefings, and intelligence reports for leadership. - Track federal, state, tribal, and private funding opportunities. - Monitor appropriations, grant competitions, budget allocations, and funding announcements. - Maintain funding calendars, deadline trackers, and grant intelligence resources. - Support development of grant-related tools, templates, and applicant resources. - Track legislation, regulations, agency guidance, board actions, and policy developments. - Monitor state boards of education, legislative committees, and education agencies. - Maintain legislative tracking systems and policy databases. - Prepare summaries of significant developments and identify potential organizational impacts. - Manage strategic inboxes, newsletters, subscriptions, and information sources. - Organize, categorize, and prioritize incoming intelligence. - Maintain calendars of key deadlines, adoption cycles, funding opportunities, and legislative events. - Coordinate information requests and strategic projects across departments and external partners. - Support special initiatives related to state strategy, federal opportunities, partnerships, and market development. - Utilize AI tools to improve research efficiency, information synthesis, workflow automation, knowledge management, and strategic intelligence gathering. - Develop and maintain AI-assisted processes for monitoring, summarizing, organizing, and analyzing large volumes of information. - Identify opportunities to leverage AI to improve organizational awareness, decision-making, and operational effectiveness. - Stay informed about emerging AI capabilities and recommend applications that support strategic objectives. - Develop weekly, monthly, and ad hoc intelligence reports. - Create executive summaries, dashboards, briefing materials, and presentations. - Draft first-pass analyses, research memoranda, and strategic recommendations. - Ensure leadership receives timely, actionable information on emerging opportunities and risks. Benefits - At Just Right Reader, we're transforming how children learn to read. - You'll be part of a passionate, growing team committed to educational equity, literacy innovation, and joyful learning. - Mission-driven company focused on improving literacy and education outcomes. - Collaborative and innovative work environment with opportunities for growth and development. - Competitive salary and benefits package.

Role Description This role is focused on serving our districts in the state of Oklahoma. The Customer Success Manager (CSM) plays a vital role in ensuring that districts and schools in Oklahoma achieve meaningful results through their partnership with Just Right Reader. The CSM is responsible for guiding customers from onboarding through full program adoption, driving engagement, and ensuring measurable impact on accelerated student reading growth. This role is all about relationships and results - helping educators and administrators make the most of our products and services, aligning our work with their literacy and instructional goals, and supporting long-term renewals and growth. Key Responsibilities - Account Management & Partnership Development - Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned districts and schools throughout the customer lifecycle. - Build strong, trust-based relationships with district and school leaders, instructional coaches, and classroom educators. - Develop and maintain account plans that outline key goals, milestones, and success metrics. - Conduct regular check-ins to review progress, identify challenges, and share strategies for success. - Monitor account health to proactively address risks and identify opportunities for renewal and expansion. - Implementation & Adoption - Support new customers through successful onboarding, ensuring smooth program launches and clear communication of next steps. - Partner with district and school teams to ensure effective implementation aligned to instructional priorities and literacy goals. - Use data and usage reports to guide discussions, track progress, and highlight impact. - Deliver professional learning sessions, data reviews, and presentations that demonstrate student and educator success. - Impact & Renewal - Analyze customer outcomes to connect product usage with literacy growth and program results. - Present data and success stories that demonstrate measurable value and progress toward district goals. - Drive renewals and expansions through demonstrated impact and strong customer relationships. - Identify customer advocates for testimonials, case studies, and presentations at conferences or webinars. - Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate with internal teams - including Sales, Automation, Product, and Marketing - to ensure a seamless and positive customer experience. - Partner with Sales to support pilot conversions and identify opportunities for additional solutions. - Provide customer feedback and insights to internal teams to inform continuous product and service improvement. Qualifications - 2-4 years of experience in customer success, account management, or district partnerships within the education sector (K-12 or edtech experience preferred). - Proven success managing multiple accounts and building lasting customer relationships. - Strong understanding of district and school operations, instructional goals, and literacy initiatives. - Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. - Ability to analyze and interpret data to tell a compelling story about student and educator impact. - Organized, proactive, and passionate about supporting educators and improving student outcomes. What Success Looks Like - High customer satisfaction and strong renewal rates across assigned accounts. - Consistent program adoption and measurable literacy or learning impact. - Growth in customer advocacy through testimonials, case studies, and referrals. - Positive, cross-functional collaboration that enhances the customer experience. - Willingness and ability to travel as needed for district visits, conferences, and events. Benefits - Mission-driven company focused on improving literacy and education outcomes. - Collaborative and innovative work environment with opportunities for growth and development. - Competitive salary and benefits package.

Just Right Reader is a forward-thinking curriculum provider committed to advancing literacy for students from Birth through 12th Grade. Our comprehensive resources are designed to support all learners, including upper-grade students requiring additional intervention to develop foundational skills. Grounded in the Science of Reading, our high-quality materials and tools equip educators with the support they need to accelerate achievement and foster lifelong readers. Position Overview: The Project Coordinator supports the successful execution of the Just Right Reader CLSD Research and Innovation Project, a multi-year, state-level literacy initiative. This role is responsible for coordinating day-to-day project operations, supporting communication across stakeholders, and ensuring the timely completion of project activities and deliverables. The Project Coordinator plays a critical role in maintaining organization, tracking implementation progress, and supporting research coordination, data collection, and reporting efforts aligned with ESSA evidence requirements. In addition, this role may support coordination of other Just Right Reader research and evaluation initiatives as needed. Key Responsibilities: Project Coordination & Operations - Support the planning, coordination, and execution of project activities across implementation and research phases - Maintain detailed project plans, timelines, trackers, and documentation - Monitor progress toward milestones and escalate risks or delays as needed - Coordinate logistics for project activities, including trainings, site visits, and meetings - Support coordination of additional research or evaluation projects aligned to Just Right Reader's broader research and innovation portfolio, as assigned Stakeholder Communication & Coordination - Support communication between Just Right Reader, the state department of education, participating districts, and our research partners - Schedule and coordinate recurring meetings (e.g., monthly coordination meetings, quarterly leadership sessions) - Prepare agendas, document meeting notes, and track action items - Ensure timely follow-up on communications and deliverables Implementation Support - Assist with onboarding and coordination of participating districts and schools - Support logistics for professional learning, including Science of Reading Academy sessions, coaching, and webinars - Coordinate distribution of instructional materials and resources - Track district participation and engagement Research & Data Collection Support - Assist in coordinating data collection activities in collaboration with the research partner - Support research implementation activities, including tracking study timelines, cohorts, and participation - Maintain organized records of implementation data, participation metrics, and communication logs - Support adherence to data collection timelines and research protocols - Assist with the preparation of reports and project updates Reporting & Documentation - Support the development of quarterly, mid-year, and annual reports - Maintain documentation of project activities, deliverables, and outcomes - Ensure records are organized and accessible for internal and external reporting Continuous Improvement & Quality Assurance - Monitor implementation fidelity indicators and flag potential issues - Collect and organize feedback from districts and stakeholders - Support continuous improvement efforts across implementation and research activities Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in education, project management, communications, or a related field - Minimum of 2 years of experience in project coordination, program support, or operations - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment Preferred Qualifications - Experience in K–12 education, literacy initiatives, or education research projects - Experience supporting research studies, program evaluation, or data collection efforts (e.g., coordinating assessments, surveys, or implementation logs) - Familiarity with grant-funded or multi-district initiatives - Experience coordinating professional learning or events - Experience working with data tracking systems or project management tools Why Join Us: At Just Right Reader, we're transforming how children learn to read. You'll be part of a passionate, growing team committed to educational equity, literacy innovation, and joyful learning. - Mission-driven company focused on improving literacy and education outcomes. - Collaborative and innovative work environment with opportunities for growth and development. - Competitive salary and benefits package.

Just Right Reader is a forward-thinking curriculum provider committed to advancing literacy for students from Birth through 12th Grade. Our comprehensive resources are designed to support all learners, including upper-grade students requiring additional intervention to develop foundational skills. Grounded in the Science of Reading, our high-quality materials and tools equip educators with the support they need to accelerate achievement and foster lifelong readers. Position Overview: We are hiring a Senior Engineer to help build and operate the Just Right Reader platform across customer-facing products, internal tools, backend services, and data-driven workflows. This individual contributor role is ideal for a strong product engineer with meaningful backend depth. You should be comfortable shipping in a modern TypeScript and Next.js environment while also working through API design, SQL-heavy workflows, third-party integrations, and production debugging. This is not a narrowly scoped frontend role or a pure infrastructure role. It is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can move across the stack and help solve real operational problems in a workflow-heavy product environment. Key Responsibilities: - Build and maintain product features across frontend, backend, and database layers. - Design and implement backend APIs and application workflows for both customer-facing and internal operational use cases. - Improve internal tools used by operations, customer success, fulfillment, and related teams. - Work across TypeScript application logic, SQL queries, reporting workflows, and integration code. - Build and maintain integrations with external systems such as ERP, CRM, auth/identity, and fulfillment-related tools. - Debug and resolve issues across application code, data, cloud services, and operational workflows. - Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems that support a growing platform and a small, fast-moving team. Qualifications: - Proven experience as a senior (or equivalent) full-stack/product engineer working on production-grade systems - Deep proficiency in TypeScript - Demonstrated success building and scaling applications using Next.js - Solid backend engineering foundation, including API design, server-side logic, and troubleshooting in live environments - Expertise in PostgreSQL and SQL, with a strong grasp of query optimization and data modeling principles - Practical judgment in using ORMs, with the ability to leverage raw SQL when appropriate - Experience integrating third-party APIs and navigating real-world edge cases and failure scenarios - Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, SQS, Secrets Manager, ECS/Fargate, Lambda workflows, RDS, and DynamoDB - Willingness to support internal tools and operational workflows as part of end-to-end ownership - Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally Nice to Have - Experience with Prisma - Background in building internal tools or operational systems - Exposure to analytics, reporting features, or data products - Working knowledge of infrastructure concepts, including Terraform - Familiarity with platforms such as NetSuite, HubSpot, Shopify, Slack, or similar business systems - Experience with Python What Success Looks Like: The right person will be able to ship product features while also improving the systems behind them. They will be comfortable working through complex workflows, production issues, integration complexity, and data-heavy problems without needing strict boundaries between frontend, backend, and platform concerns. They will bring strong engineering judgment, a bias toward reliability, and the ability to collaborate closely with teammates across technical, operational, product, and marketing functions. Why Join Us: At Just Right Reader, we're transforming how children learn to read. You'll be part of a passionate, growing team committed to educational equity, literacy innovation, and joyful learning. - Mission-driven company focused on improving literacy and education outcomes. - Collaborative and innovative work environment with opportunities for growth and development. - Competitive salary and benefits package.