Assessment Program Manager (N. Amer or EU)

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At Workera, we are redefining how organizations understand and develop talent. Our Assessment Program Manager will be at the forefront of this transformation, helping to lead the development of AI-powered, skill-centric assessments that fuel our groundbreaking agentic skills intelligence platform. This isn’t traditional test development—this is a chance to pioneer the next generation of assessment design, collaborating directly with AI agents and human experts to shape the future of workforce intelligence.

If you're passionate about leveraging automation, AI, and human expertise to create cutting-edge assessments that enable organizations to make smarter, data-driven talent decisions, this is the role for you.

Who You’ll Work With

You will join Workera’s Assessment Innovation Team, collaborating with assessment developers, product managers, and engineers. AI agents are also key members of this team, enhancing efficiency, precision, and scalability in assessment development. Your role will be to manage these interactions, ensuring that AI-driven tools and human oversight work seamlessly together.

What You’ll Do

Within 3 months, you will:

• Gain a deep understanding of Workera’s agentic assessment authoring system and how it integrates with human expertise.
• Establish clear processes for AI-human collaboration, ensuring seamless assessment design and review.
• Manage human-in-the-loop workflows, ensuring AI-generated assessments align with psychometric best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline and scale skill-based assessment development.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Develop scalable strategies for AI-assisted assessment creation, improving efficiency and reducing manual bottlenecks.
• Lead training initiatives to help assessment developers effectively collaborate with AI agents.
• Work closely with data scientists and engineers to refine AI-generated assessments based on real-world performance data.
• Implement best practices for maintaining skill-centric assessment integrity while leveraging automation.

Within 9 months, you will:

• Drive innovation in AI-powered assessment design, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in workforce intelligence.
• Establish key performance metrics to track AI-human collaboration efficiency and assessment quality.
• Scale Workera’s assessment capabilities across multiple domains, ensuring continuous alignment with industry skill demands.
• Optimize collaborative workflows between AI and human experts, refining automation while preserving essential human oversight.

*Please note as we are a dynamic and quickly growing scale-up, things are always subject to change*

What You’ll Bring

• Expertise in assessment development, with a strong foundation in psychometric principles, evidence-centered design, and test construction.

Proficient in using AI tools like ChatGPT (or similar) for assessment creation, prompt engineering/design, data analysis, or automated content generation.

• Ability to rapidly learn new skill domains, including their key components, relevance, and application, to effectively design assessments.
• Strong project management skills, overseeing assessment development lifecycles from ideation to deployment.
• Exceptional communication and facilitation abilities, particularly in guiding SMEs and translating technical details for diverse audiences, including engineering, sales, and marketing teams.
• Strong data literacy, with an understanding of how AI-generated assessments can be optimized based on performance insights.
• Fluency in English, with excellent speaking, writing, editing, and copyediting skills.
• Familiarity with data wrangling, statistics, programming languages, machine learning, or workforce analytics, with basic to intermediate proficiency in Python and SQL.

If you're excited about this role but don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. Studies show that many people hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement, even when they have the skills to succeed. We value diverse perspectives and believe the right candidate brings more than just a checklist of qualifications—your unique experiences may be exactly what we need.

About Workera

Workera is a fast-growing, Series B Silicon Valley start-up redefining how enterprises understand, develop, and mobilize talent. Workera’s skills intelligence platform empowers leaders to make better, more informed talent development decisions. Utilizing computational psychometrics, machine learning, and AI technologies, Workera delivers best-in-class computer adaptive assessments with hyper-personalized learning plans to global companies across all industries. Our clients include Samsung, Siemens Energy, and the US Air Force.

Our founder is Kian Katanforoosh, an award-winning Stanford Computer Science Lecturer who has taught AI to over 1 million people, and our Chairman is Dr. Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera (NYSE: COUR), CEO of DeepLearning.AI, and founding lead of the Google Brain project.

We’re learners, dreamers, and game-changers. Join us. 

At Workera, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Workera believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the best and most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.