[Hiring] Preschool Scriptwriter @Khan Academy
Mar 28, 2025 - Khan Academy is hiring a remote Preschool Scriptwriter. 💸 Salary: $50-100/hr. 📍Location: USA, Canada.
Role Description
The Khan Academy Kids team is seeking a Preschool Scriptwriter with a passion for preschool storytelling—someone who can spark young children's imaginations through playful narratives, memorable characters, and engaging learning adventures. This is a contract role at $50-100/hr, depending on experience.
- Craft the overarching narrative and imaginative world of a new product, designing an engaging, age-appropriate story that supports playful language learning.
- Develop compelling characters in collaboration with the design team.
- Write storylines and dialogue for in-app learning activities, ensuring they align with pedagogical goals and feel fun and natural to young children.
- Collaborate closely with product and UX teams to bring learning moments to life through interactive storytelling.
- Ensure consistency in tone, voice, and character behavior across all content.
- Iterate on scripts based on feedback from testing, educators, and cross-functional teams.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience writing for preschool audiences in games, interactive media or TV.
- Sensitivity to and understanding of global audiences—how stories, humor, and characters resonate across cultures.
- Deep understanding of what captures and holds a young child’s attention, with a knack for writing stories that are playful, funny, and emotionally resonant.
- Expertise developing imaginative worlds, characters, and storylines that support learning through narrative.
- Strong collaboration skills and openness to iterative, cross-disciplinary creative development.
- Bonus: Experience in early language learning or educational content development.
Company Description
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 155 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.
Khan Academy Kids is a free and fun learning program for children ages two to eight. Kodi Bear and a cast of animated characters lead children on a personalized education journey filled with fun, standards-aligned activities in early literacy, math, executive functioning and social emotional skills. Built by a small but mighty team, Khan Academy Kids is used by millions of children in homes and classrooms around the world.
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Salary
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$50-100/hr
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USA, Canada
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Job Type
contract
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Posted
Mar 28, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA, Canada |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
