# Psychometrician Senior at Renaissance

> Remote · United States · Senior · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Arenaissancelearning-nam%3A5470147008 (read 2026-11-05).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Renaissance](https://alderhq.app/companies/renaissance)
- Location text: Remote - US; Remote - US
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · United States (evidence: "Remote role open worldwide")
- Posted: 2026-11-02 (2 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/renaissancelearning-nam/jobs/5470147008

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 2612): p25 $106k, median $136k, p75 $171k

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Renaissance

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

### Job Description

The role of Senior Psychometrician is to advance the state-of-the-art in educational assessment through contributions to the development of computerized adaptive test (CAT) and other assessment instruments.

### In this role as a Senior Psychometrician, you will be responsible for

- Being a mentor to lower-level Psychometricians
- Managing projects through product implementation and evaluation
- Representing the department to senior management and customer advocacy groups or committees
- Exercising judgement of analysis, methodology and techniques to accomplish goals
- Applying knowledge of psychometrics and statistics to the design, development, and evaluation of tests
- Planning advanced research studies, including item calibration and test norming studies
- Analyzing item response, score distribution, reliability and validity research data as part of test development process
- Designing and implementing psychometric studies to support new products or new product development
- Coordinating with Engineering, Content Development and other internal groups to deliver new products
- Investigating and diagnosing complex anomalies, issues and customer concerns related to scores
- Conforming with all safety rules and using safety equipment as appropriate to the role
### Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. In accordance with applicable laws, Renaissance Learning will provide reasonable accommodations that do not create an undue burden so disabled employees may perform the essential functions of the position.

### For this role as a Senior Psychometrician, you should have

- Doctoral degree (Ph. D.) and minimum 15 years of experience in related field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
- Proficiency with PC, MS and virtual meeting software
- Proficiency with statistical software packages (e.g. SAS)
- Education research and measurement experience
- Test design and development experience
- Experience in applied measurement in an education setting is desired
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret statistical data
- Exceptional English written and oral communication
- Leadership ability
- Write research plans to achieve test development goals and obtain quality data
- Knowledge of CAT design, IRT, and statistical methods
- Project management skills, with emphasis on technical design and implementation of educational tests
- Demonstrated ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents
- Demonstrated ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
- Demonstrated ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format
- Demonstrated ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors
- Demonstrated ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations
- Demonstrated ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis
- Demonstrated ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

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