We're Hiring
Our Mission
We're building an open-science platform to bring the world's research online, available to all, for free. With over 78 million registered users, Academia is rapidly transforming the way researchers share their work. We're a small team of 41 people passionate about building great software to open up science. In 2016 we raised $11 million to fuel the growth of the platform and the team.
Benefits & Perks
Open Positions
PRODUCT DATA ANALYST
Product Data Analyst
San Francisco
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper ever published available for free online.
Over 75 million academics are Academia.edu members (increasing at 55,000 per day), and they have added 22 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month, and has attracted investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes. Academia’s Premium suite of features has over 100,000 paying subscribers at over 9,000 universities around the world.
Responsibilities
You would be the lead Product Data Analyst, serving as part of the Data Science team and interfacing daily with Academia’s 4-person Product Management team. You would be responsible both for building the PM team’s analytical skills and for tackling many of the most challenging data analysis questions yourself.
• Use data and analytics to routinely answer questions on user behavior and results of product tests
• Routinely monitor product, financial, and user metrics for trends, changes, and unexpected behavior; work with the PM team to evaluate which metrics should be monitored
• Translate metrics, investigations, and findings into likely business outcomes
• Independently design an accurate and consistent framework for answering analytics questions
• Suggest new business and product opportunities based on data insights
• Proactively identify ways to improve day to day responsibilities, such as database structure, report automation, the use of new analytics tools, etc.
• Communicate business requirements to the rest of the Data Science team to enable new analyses
Requirements
• 2+ years previous experience working on analytics and/or data science teams
• Excellent SQL skills
• Extensive experience querying large, complex data sets & proven ability to thrive with multiple imperfect, mixed, varied, and inconsistent data sources
• Experience with the following (or comparable) tools is a plus: Redshift, our primary data warehouse technology; Periscope, our primary dashboarding tool; Python (frequently used by our Data Science team)
• Experience with descriptive statistics, data visualization, and A/B testing approaches
• Detail-oriented with superior organizational skills; able to navigate between multiple projects, meet deadlines, and process ad hoc requests
• Curious, resourceful, collaborative, communicative, and autonomous
• Positive and team oriented "can-do" attitude
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SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER
Senior Product Designer
San Francisco
Senior Product Designer
Academia’s mission is to make every research paper available for free for everyone in the world. So far our 75 million users have uploaded about one third of all research papers ever written and there have been over 2 billion downloads. We’re pretty excited about that!
Problems like climate change, political conflict and social inequality can only be solved through intensive collaboration. That’s why we built a network to allow researchers to share, discover, and collaborate on new research from around the world. We love creating the experiences that enable new researchers to be discovered, and established researchers to reach new audiences.
So if you want to help all people access the world’s latest research, and help researchers connect and collaborate, keep reading!
What will you get?
In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 42-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We are turning cash flow positive and our revenue run rate is growing rapidly. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal paid holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.
Responsibilities
* Own large design projects (exploring mobile experiences, contributing to a design system, revolutionizing peer review and publishing, helping researchers showcase their work)
* Work quickly and effectively on multiple projects.
* Ship new features, bug fixes, and small improvements multiple times a week.
* Work directly with our engineers, delivering them product specs and assets
* Work directly with other designers to envision and iterate concepts
* Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the team
* Deliver mockups and high-fidelity user interfaces
* Prototype concepts in Invision (we also like Webflow for live CSS/HTML prototypes)
Requirements
* 5+ years of Product Design (User Experience, Interaction Design)
* A strong design background with an obsessive eye to interaction details
* Experience designing for web and mobile applications
* Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision
* Self-motivated and able to efficiently run with a project without close supervision
* Basic knowledge of HTML & CSS.
* Excellent communication skills—you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions
* Bachelor's Degree
Bonus Skills
* User research experience—formative and validation/usability testing
* Experience with Webflow or other prototyping tools
* Experience building and evolving a Design System
* Experience with effective A/B testing
* Using quantitative data to influence design decisions
* Master’s Degree in HCI
The Academia Story
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper ever published available for free online.
Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in all areas of research by allowing academics to publish and share their own work. Not only do these academics share their own research, they can use our platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
Over 75 million academics are Academia.edu members, and have added 34 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month, and has attracted investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent.
Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid. We have 42 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 24 in engineering.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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FULL-STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Full-stack Software Engineer
San Francisco
Academia is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team!
What we're looking for
Our ideal candidates are not only great at what they do, but they also make a meaningful impact on our mission. You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. You are excited about and understand front end and robust app server architecture, and scalable backend design.
Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base or having the ambition to put your scaling ideas into practice. Familiarity with our current tools is a plus, but it's much more important that you be a fast learner who can pick up new technologies quickly.
What will you build?
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.
Academia's platform has scaled to over 75M registered users, and over 8M monthly active users. You'll be designing and building systems and services to make our user base more productive in their academic work life. You'll be working on such systems as:
* communications and messaging tools to facilitate collaboration and feedback
* an engaging and scalable peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research
* A scalable newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field
* tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network
* advanced search products and personalized analytics
What impact will you have?
Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.
What will you get?
In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 42-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.
What to expect from the Interview
At Academia, we believe in strong computer science fundamentals. If you're unfamiliar with parts of our stack, that's not a problem as long as you're hungry to learn. We're more interested in your abilities as a software engineer. You will be given the opportunity to meet most of the engineers on our team, plus the CTO and the CEO. Conversations will range from personal interests, to your resume background. We want to understand your problem-solving skills and your ability to write structured, scalable, production level code. During the interview process, you'll be given a logic problem and you'll be asked to write code to solve the problem. We view this as a discussion, and we're more interested in the way you think rather than that you got the right answer.
The Academia Story
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper ever published available for free online.
Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in all areas of research by allowing academics to publish and share their own work. Not only do these academics share their own research, they can use our platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
Over 75 million academics are Academia.edu members (increasing at 55,000 per day), and have added 34 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month, and has attracted investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent.
Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid. We have 42 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Technologies we use
- Ruby on Rails, React (to make our FE more responsive), RSpec and Jasmine for testing, PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for in-memory data structures, Elasticsearch for our full-text search engine, Kafka for our publish-subscribe messaging, Neo4J for managing our email lists, all working with EC2 spot instances and autoscaling, and Ansible for configuration management.
Requirements
- Solid CS fundamentals; Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related major strongly preferred
- Recent college grads OR 2-5+ years of large scale web application development in a Unix/Linux environment
- Strong knowledge of web services architecture, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies
- Proficiency with Ruby, Python, or other scripting language is preferred but not required
- Understanding, creating and manipulating and querying databases
- API/back-end coding in one or more languages e.g. Ruby, Java, Python, etc.
- Front-end coding experience in one or more languages, e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Java, etc., is preferred but not required.
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SENIOR MOBILE ENGINEER - ANDROID
Senior Mobile Engineer - Android
San Francisco
Academia is looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to join our team.
Our ideal candidate is an engineer who can augment their mobile experience and expertise with a generalist outlook.
Good knowledge of Android development, deployment, and best-practices.
What will you build?
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.
Academia's platform has scaled to over 75M registered users (increasing at 55,000 per day). You'll be designing and building systems and services to make our user base more productive in their academic work life. Key features of Academia that you will work on are:
* a scalable mobile newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field
* mobile notifications for key events relating to an academic's work
* an engaging peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research
* advanced search products
* impact metrics and personalized analytics
What impact will you have?
Your work will impact millions of academics and non-academics, making knowledge more accessible and accelerating the world's research.
What will you get?
In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 42-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.
The Academia Story
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper ever published available for free online.
Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in all areas of research by allowing academics to publish and share their own work. Not only do these academics share their own research, they can use our platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
Over 75 million academics are Academia.edu members, and have added 34 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month, and has attracted investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent.
Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid. We have 42 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Technologies we use
We are building entirely new mobile apps for Academia. Our iOS app just launched and we are about to start working on Android. The Android codebase will be brand new leveraging our JSON REST API. The Android version will be made with Kotlin, although if your experience is with JAVA that is fine. It's worth noting our mobile engineers do learn some basic backend development to enable us to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack.” We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, it’s our intention to build a quality product, not take shortcuts to rush to market.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related major strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling mobile applications.
- 2-5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of web services architecture, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies
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SENIOR MOBILE ENGINEER - IOS
Senior Mobile Engineer - iOS
San Francisco
Academia is looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to join our team.
Our ideal candidate is an engineer who can augment their mobile experience and expertise with a generalist outlook.
Good knowledge of iOS or Android development, deployment, and best-practices.
What will you build?
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.
Academia's platform has scaled to over 75M registered users (increasing at 55,000 per day). You'll be designing and building systems and services to make our user base more productive in their academic work life. Key features of Academia that you will work on are:
* a scalable mobile newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field
* mobile notifications for key events relating to an academic's work
* an engaging peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research
* advanced search products
* impact metrics and personalized analytics
What impact will you have?
Your work will impact millions of academics and non-academics, making knowledge more accessible and accelerating the world's research.
What will you get?
In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our 42-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.
The Academia Story
Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper ever published available for free online.
Our site accelerates research and supports critical breakthroughs in all areas of research by allowing academics to publish and share their own work. Not only do these academics share their own research, they can use our platform to monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.
Over 75 million academics are Academia.edu members, and have added 34 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month, and has attracted investment of more than $34 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent.
Academia is turning cash flow positive and revenue growth is rapid. We have 42 employees at our San Francisco Office, with 26 in engineering.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Technologies we use
We are building entirely new mobile apps for Academia, first for iOS then for Android. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API. When we start working on the Android version it will be made with Kotlin. It's worth noting the mobile engineers do learn some basic backend development to enable us to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”.We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, it’s our intention to build a quality product, not take shortcuts to rush to market.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related major strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling mobile applications.
- 2-5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of web services architecture, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies
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