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# School Strategy Specialist - Bay Area at Epic Kids Inc.

- **Company:** Epic Kids Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/epickids/jobs/8013673003

## Job description

## About Epic

Epic is a digital reading platform for kids 12 and under, with a library of high-quality children’s books, audiobooks, and read-to-me titles. Epic is free for educators, and teachers and librarians across the U.S. use it every day to get kids reading more, with more joy. Many of our biggest champions are school librarians and ELA teachers who brought Epic into their buildings on their own.

## About the role

As a Strategic Partnerships Specialist, you’ll be Epic’s local, in-person presence in your community, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your mission: help more educators discover Epic, bring it into their classrooms and libraries, and make reading with Epic part of their everyday routine.

You’ll work with schools and districts in your area, building relationships with teachers, librarians, and school communities. You’ll help educators who already love Epic share it with their colleagues, support teachers as they get started, and introduce Epic to schools that haven’t discovered it yet. This is a grassroots, educator-to-educator role. Epic is free for educators, so this isn’t about selling. It’s about being a trusted local voice who shows teachers how Epic fits into their day.

Along the way, you’ll share what you learn in the field and help shape the school partnership playbook that guides this work as it expands to new markets.

## What you’ll do

Lead Bay Area literacy and education technology initiatives

- Lead Epic’s school partnership work in the Bay Area: build work plans, set milestones, and coordinate with Epic’s partnerships, product and marketing teams
- Launch and lead an Epic Educator Advisory Group of principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, librarians and teachers. Turn its input into clear recommendations for Epic’s leadership.
- Help school and district leaders connect Epic to their literacy goals, such as foundational reading, independent reading time, English learner support and summer reading
- Represent Epic as a practitioner voice at conferences, county office of education events, district convenings and literacy partner events

Design and facilitate educator training

- Plan and lead in-person and virtual professional learning on reading engagement, classroom technology use and family literacy
- Facilitate sessions at staff meetings, PD days, literacy and family nights, and library events, spending 2–3 days a week at schools
- Give follow-up coaching after trainings so teachers move from first use to regular classroom routines
- Lead family sessions in English and your second language, with a focus on schools that serve multilingual learners

Build strategic school and district partnerships

- Own relationships with leaders across a portfolio of 10–15 priority Bay Area districts and their elementary and K–8 schools
- Move schools from individual teacher use to school-wide adoption by working with principals, librarians and teacher champions
- Help districts add Epic to approved app lists, and connect them with Epic’s team on data privacy agreements
- Build partnerships with public libraries, literacy nonprofits and community organizations that support young readers

Create resources and support instruction

- Develop and maintain training materials, school toolkits, family resources and Epic’s school partnership playbook
- Adapt resources for multilingual families and different school contexts
- Find and lift up standout educators for recognition and case studies

Run program operations and share what you learn

- Track school visits, training attendance, adoption and reading activity, and use that data to decide where to focus next
- Gather feedback from trainings and evaluate what’s working
- Share regular, specific insight on school priorities, literacy needs and product gaps with Epic’s team

## What you bring

Required

- 5+ years in K–8 education, including at least 2 years as an assistant principal, principal, dean, district strategist, instructional coach lead or in a similar leadership role
- 2+ years leading major projects or school-wide initiatives, such as a literacy program, technology rollout or PD series
- Bilingual in English and at least one language widely spoken in Bay Area schools, such as Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Tagalog or Arabic. You can present to and coach families and educators in that language.
- Experience designing and facilitating adult learning, both in person and virtually
- Active relationships with Bay Area school and district leaders
- Strong public speaking skills and comfort facilitating groups of senior educators
- Organized and self-directed, able to manage competing priorities; comfortable with Google Workspace, spreadsheets and basic data tracking
- Reliable transportation and willingness to travel regularly to schools across the Bay Area

## How we’ll measure success

- New teacher and librarian sign-ups in your portfolio
- Activated teachers: classes created, students added, and kids reading
- Growth in active teachers and daily student reading across your schools
- Schools moving up tiers, from a single user toward school-wide adoption
- School visits, educator meetings, and presentations delivered
- Quality of field insights contributed to the playbook

## What we provide

- Onboarding and training on Epic, plus ongoing support from the Educator Engagement team
- Usage data and a prioritized school list for your portfolio
- Presentation decks, one-pagers, printed materials, and Epic swag
- Coverage of approved travel, meals, and materials

## Compensation and terms

- Compensation: $50 per hour and quarterly bonus of up to $5K based on target achievement.
- Time commitment: 25 - 30 hours per week, with 2 to 3 days in schools.
- Start date: November 2, 2026 (flexible)
- Commute: Mileage reimbursed based on actuals as per IRS standards ($72.5 cents per mile)

## About Epic Kids Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids aged 12 and under, offering a safe, ad-free library of over 40,000 books, audiobooks, and videos.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of TAL Education Group; previously acquired by BYJU’S in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Suren Markosian, Kevin Donahue

## Core Business
- Primary industry: E‑learning / Children’s Digital Publishing
- Target customers: B2C (parents and families) and B2B (K–12 educators and schools)
- Mission: “Unlock the potential of every child by making reading something kids want to do — fun, safe, and accessible for all.”

## Products & Services
- **Epic! App (iOS, Android, Web)**: A subscription‑based digital library featuring 40,000+ books, audiobooks, and learning videos from 250+ publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, National Geographic Kids, and Sesame Street. Offers personalized recommendations, reading rewards, and educator dashboards.
- **Epic School**: Free version for teachers, used in over 2 million classrooms. Includes tools for assigning books, tracking reading progress, and differentiating instruction.
- **Epic Originals**: Proprietary content created by the Epic team; Epic Originals have been read over 400 million times.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by BYJU’S in 2021 for ~$500 M; now part of TAL Education Group since 2025)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $32 M (latest available); total funding of $51.45 M (Seed through Series D)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Reach Capital (led Series C), with participation from 10+ investors including top children’s publishing executives. Key publisher partners: HarperCollins, Macmillan, Sesame Street, Smithsonian.
- **Growth Signals**: Reached 50+ million children worldwide; 49.6% headcount growth year-over-year (68 employees); over 1 billion books read annually on the platform; 90% of educators would recommend Epic to colleagues.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched safety & trust**: Ad‑free, COPPA‑compliant, and curated by literacy experts — a key differentiator for both parents and schools.
- **Exclusive content & partnerships**: Deep relationships with 250+ publishers and a growing library of Epic Originals that can’t be found elsewhere.
- **Educator‑first model**: Epic School is free for teachers, driving adoption in classrooms and creating a natural B2C funnel through family sharing.
- **Scale**: Used in over 2 M classrooms, giving Epic a massive distribution advantage in the K‑12 edtech space.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Epic Originals pipeline and deepening publisher relationships to keep content fresh and exclusive.
- Growing international reach and supporting multilingual literacy (currently operates in 6 countries).
- Leveraging the resources of TAL Education Group to accelerate product development and enter new markets, especially in Asia.
- Enhancing AI‑powered recommendations and reading‑level tracking to improve personalized learning outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Employees are united by a belief that reading unlocks every child’s potential. The company reports 95% of parents say Epic improved their child’s reading skills.
- **Work environment**: Remote‑first with co‑working hubs in San Jose, Redwood City, and Chino, CA. Many roles are listed as “Remote” or “Hybrid,” offering flexibility.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount expansion (+49.6% YoY) and backing from a global education leader (TAL) signal strong investment in talent.
- **Engineering culture**: Teams work on full‑stack, infrastructure, and content tools to support a platform serving millions of daily users. Stack includes cloud‑native technologies (Kubernetes, AWS).
- **Employee ratings**: 3.6/5 on LinkedIn (54 reviews) with work‑life balance scored at 4.0 and culture at 4.0. Notable perks include a focus on impact rather than bureaucracy.

## Sources
1. [Epic Careers Page](https://www.getepic.com/careers)
2. [Epic About Us](https://www.getepic.com/about)
3. [Built In Company Profile: Epic for Kids](https://builtin.com/company/epic-kids)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page: Epic for Kids](https://www.linkedin.com/company/epic4kids)

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