We here at Kide Science are enthusiastic about helping children to get excited about science and to learn how to think like a scientist. We have secured funding for years to come, and we’ve got paying customers globally. One of our main goals for the near future is to bring science education to kindergartens and homes all over the world. You will have the freedom and right to influence the working methods of the team, as well as the tools and practices used.

At the core of our business, we have a pedagogical model that we have developed through scientific research. This pedagogical model is in use, for example:

• in science lessons in kindergartens and hobby centres around the world

• in our digital product for educators and parents

• in a TV-show in Finnish children’s programme, Pikku Kakkonen

• in books with Sanoma.

We want to utilise versatile channels in supporting science education for children. Importantly, we also continue the academic research on science education at the University of Helsinki.

At the moment, the most important manifestation of our pedagogy is in our products for teachers: lesson plans and training materials, carefully developed by our top-notch in-house pedagogical team. We sell licenses for these globally, for example, for kindergarten chains and hobby centres, we have customers on 14 countries already. Our clients can as well come from the public sector, from Universities and Ministries of education. In Finland, we are already cooperating with several municipalities. 

What would your work be like?

We have started to build an automated sales pump, but we need you in the front lines to search for the most prospective customers from kindergarten chains or similar and to curate the buying process to suit their needs. You are not a telemarketer since each customer needs to be contacted with a tailor-made approach. If you have a proven track record from sales experience in the education field, that is a big plus.

We need you so that within a year, we can be confident we have contacted the most potential customers on the targeted market and have gotten some of them as excited partners.

The interesting challenges for you to solve are, among other things, recognising the needs of the customers, building personal relationships and understanding cultural differences. We already have some success on this front, since we have the largest Finnish kindergarten chain and a notable partner in China with learning centers in 30 provinces as our customers.

We have received several awards in our field, and we have investors, like Reaktor from Finland and Emerge Education from the United Kingdom, to back us up. We just closed a significant funding round, so it is time to change gears by getting some highly skilled coworkers for our lovely office in Kamppi. We are seeking a full-time employee. You’d get to work alongside about ten colleagues, most closely with our dedicated sales & marketing team. Our pedagogical team is there to help with after-sales processes and customer relations since many of our customers are teachers. But we hope you have the ability to motivate, lead and elevate also others to achieve more.

We place a high priority on working culture, and we thus optimize learning as a team and truly working together. We would love you to spend your working time with us, at the office, but remote working is also possible. We offer you all of the tools you need, as well as all of our knowledge and skills.

As an agile and young company, we work in a post-agile manner. All of our team members are equal, according to minimalistic organisation models, and all team members have equal right and opportunity to influence the decisions we make and the decisions are under scrutiny daily. You get to influence the working methods of the team, as well as the tools and practices used. However, these are just something to help us to reach our goals - not the goal itself. It is because our main goal is to see the joy of revelation and excitement in children’s faces when they have figured something out by themselves!

Ask for more information from our CEO Sari Hurme-Mehtälä through email.