--- title: 'Head of Assessment and Certification Content at DataCamp' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-assessment-and-certification-content-datacamp-belgium-london-united-vqvp1hzy9nak' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Head of Assessment and Certification Content at DataCamp - **Company:** DataCamp - **Location:** Belgium / London, United Kingdom / Portugal / United States - **Posted:** 2026-08-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datacamp/jobs/8102652 ## Job description ## About DataCamp Data and AI skills are critical for thriving today, and DataCamp is the platform that empowers everyone to learn them. We help individuals and Fortune 1000 companies close the data and AI skills gap through world-class learning, hands-on training, and a global community of expert instructors. In this role, you'll collaborate with instructors and teams across curriculum, engineering, product, and marketing to build and scale the assessments and certifications that prove those skills—helping millions worldwide validate what they've learned and signal it to employers. ## About the role This is an individual contributor role. You will own the design and production of DataCamp's assessment and certification content, working with subject-matter experts and building AI systems that generate, review, and continuously refresh high-quality, defensible questions at scale. Here's what your day-to-day will look like: - Own the end-to-end lifecycle for assessment and certification content—from blueprint and item design through review, publication, and ongoing maintenance—and manage deadlines across it. - Design psychometrically sound assessments: write and review items, define scoring and passing standards, and safeguard validity, reliability, and fairness. - Build and operate AI workflows—prompting, pipelines, and evaluation—that draft, grade, and quality-check items, so content production scales without sacrificing rigor. - Source and collaborate with subject-matter experts to keep certifications current with the fast-moving data and AI landscape. - Map certifications to the real skills hiring managers screen for, so a DataCamp credential is a credible signal to employers. - Benchmark against the wider certification landscape—competing programs, industry standards, and emerging role definitions—and set the strategy for where our certifications go next. - Continuously assess certification performance using pass rates, item statistics, and learner and employer feedback to drive improvements. Qualifications: - A technical background in a STEM field—such as Computer Science, Data Science, AI, Statistics, or Engineering—paired with experience evaluating technical competency (e.g., designing coding assessments, technical interviews, certification exams, or graded coursework), so you can judge whether an assessment item is accurate and genuinely tests skill. - Demonstrated expertise in assessment design—item writing, scoring, standard-setting, and the validity, reliability, and fairness principles behind credible certification—with proven experience building or running technical assessments or certification programs. - A clear grasp of the skills hiring managers actually screen for in data and AI roles, and how to translate them into what a certification measures. - Strong experience with agentic AI systems such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Replit, and building AI automation systems. You can demonstrate you've increased your output 10x with AI. - Graduate degree (Master's or PhD) in a related STEM discipline, or equivalent industry experience with hands-on expertise in data science, machine learning, or software development. Bonus if you have the following: - A deep understanding of the DataCamp courses, assessments, and certifications. - An extensive track record of building sophisticated AI systems and workflows. - An understanding or interest in the current certification landscape in data and AI: how leading programs are structured, where they fall short, and what makes a credential respected by employers. ## About DataCamp ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: DataCamp is an online learning platform that teaches data science, AI, and analytics skills to individuals and organizations, with a mission to democratize data skills for everyone. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States (also offices in London, UK, and Leuven, Belgium) - **Founded**: Not publicly available from provided sources (well-known founding year is 2013, but not confirmed in search results) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Data science and AI education, corporate training, online learning - **Target customers**: B2B (5,000+ companies, 80% of the Fortune 1000), B2C (19 million individual learners), Academic (3,000+ academic organizations, 350,000 students through DataCamp for Classrooms) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Democratize data skills for everyone" – making data education accessible to all through high-quality, interactive learning experiences. ## Products & Services - **DataCamp Platform (Individual Learners)**: Interactive online courses, career tracks, skill tracks, and certifications covering Python, R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, ChatGPT, Docker, Snowflake, Azure, and more. Includes AI-powered learning assistant for personalized support. - **DataCamp for Business**: Enterprise upskilling solution offering customized learning paths, tracking features, and alignment with company tech stacks. Trusted by 5,000+ organizations. - **DataCamp Classrooms**: Free access for teachers and students, used in 14,000+ schools across 180+ countries. - **Certifications**: Industry-recognized certifications for data roles (e.g., Data Scientist in Python, Data Analyst in Python, Machine Learning Engineer) to validate job-ready skills. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: 19 million learners, 5,000+ corporate customers (80% of Fortune 1000), 3,000+ academic partners - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not mentioned in provided sources (partnerships include over 120 nonprofit organizations, and integrations with tools like Databricks, Snowflake, Docker, Azure) - **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth indicated by 35+ open positions; expanding into AI education and machine learning engineering tracks; global offices in New York, London, Leuven, and remote roles in Portugal, Argentina, and Dubai. ## Competitive Advantages - **Interactive learning model**: Short videos broken by hands-on exercises for immediate retention – different from passive video platforms. - **AI-first approach**: Built-in AI tutor for code explanation, instant feedback, and career advice, enhancing the learning experience. - **Enterprise adoption**: 80% of Fortune 1000 use DataCamp, showing strong B2B trust and network effects. - **Comprehensive curriculum**: Covers the full data stack from non‑coding fundamentals to advanced machine learning and AI engineering, with role‑based career tracks. - **Free classroom program**: Drives brand awareness and future talent pool by offering free access to teachers and students globally. ## Strategic Focus - **Closing the data & AI skills gap**: Addressing the 3 in 5 leaders who admit a data/AI skills gap (per 2026 State of Data & AI Literacy Report). - **AI integration**: Deeper AI features (AI tutor, AI career advice) and new AI-specific courses (AI Fundamentals, Associate AI Engineer for Data Scientists). - **Expanding enterprise and professional services**: Hiring senior enterprise account executives, customer success managers, and professional services roles to grow corporate revenue. - **Global expansion**: Offices in US, UK, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina, Dubai – indicating a push into EMEA and Latin America. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & mission**: Team is "smart, curious, and driven" with a mission to democratize data skills; values include learning from each other. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Multiple office locations (New York, London, Leuven, Buenos Aires) and remote-friendly roles (e.g., Portugal, Belgium, US West Coast) – hybrid likely depending on role. - **Perks & benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, generous healthcare, fully paid parental leave, personal development budget, office equipment budget, free lunch and healthy snacks, international company trips and trainings. - **Engineering culture**: Active hiring for Principal AI Engineer, Senior Software Engineers (Ruby), Full Stack Engineer Interns, and infrastructure roles – modern tech stack (TypeScript, Python, Ruby, cloud). ## Sources 1. [datacamp.com/about](https://www.datacamp.com/about) – Company overview, mission, metrics, values 2. [datacamp.com/careers](https://www.datacamp.com/careers) – Careers page, benefits, core values 3. [datacamp.com](https://www.datacamp.com/) – Main site, product offerings, customer statistics 4. 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