WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over 2 years old, and more than 7 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the safety of AI output to teachers and students: policy, model-level guardrails, evals, red-teaming, and incident response.
Own the trust posture with districts: safety documentation, RFP and school-board responses, and alignment with state AI-in-education guidance.
Develop safety evaluations and monitoring as integral components of product infrastructure; ensure that each new tool includes safety acceptance criteria established during the scoping phase, rather than at launch.
Own student-facing safety specifically: age-appropriate content, self-harm and crisis handling, and escalation paths to educators.
Run the safety incident process end to end and own the postmortem loop back into product and engineering.
Partner with Legal on COPPA, FERPA, state privacy laws, and emerging AI regulation. T&S owns the operational reality; Legal owns the legal position.
Lead a small team dedicated to student safety.

QUALIFICATIONS / COMPETENCIES / SKILLS

Must Haves

Has owned trust & safety or responsible AI for a consumer or youth-facing product at scale: real incidents, real policy decisions, real regulators.
Hands-on with LLM safety: evals, classifiers, prompt/system-level guardrails, red-teaming. Can read an eval result and say what to change.
Has made safety a velocity enabler, not friction — builds guardrails as infrastructure so teams ship faster with confidence.
Makes judgment calls under ambiguity and owns them publicly, to districts and to the exec team.
Strong writer: safety docs, district-facing explainers, incident communications.
Operates hypothesis-first and escalates one-way doors fast rather than sitting on them.

Nice to Haves

K-12 or youth-platform experience (GoGuardian, Securly, Roblox, Discord, YouTube Kids, Epic Games).
Familiarity with state AI-in-education frameworks and district procurement questionnaires.
Prior work with child-safety NGOs or standards bodies (Common Sense Media, NCMEC, Thorn, ISTE).
Data/ML fluency to partner directly with engineering on classifiers and eval pipelines.
Comfortable being the external face of safety at conferences, with press, and in front of district boards.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

Proven ownership of trust & safety or responsible AI at a consumer or youth-facing product at scale.
Hands-on experience with LLM safety tooling: evals, classifiers, and red-teaming.
Experience handling live incidents involving minors or vulnerable users.
Track record of building safety as product infrastructure, not a gate.
Demonstrated ability to communicate safety tradeoffs clearly to executive and district-level audiences.

TECH STACK

LLM layer: multi-provider (OpenAI / Anthropic / Google via GCP Vertex); moderation APIs and custom classifiers.
Eval and red-team tooling (to be built out); Datadog for output observability and alerting.
Product stack context: TypeScript / Next.js on Vercel, Supabase (PostgreSQL) backend.
Incident and knowledge tooling: Linear, Slack workflows, Notion.

Why Join Us?

Work on cutting-edge AI technology that directly impacts educators and students.
Join a mission-driven team passionate about making education more efficient and equitable.
Flexibility of working from home, while fostering a unique culture built on relationships, trust, communication, and collaboration with our team - no matter where they live.

For full time employees:

Unlimited time off to empower our employees to manage their work-life balance. We work hard for our teachers and users, and encourage our employees to rest and take the time they need.
Choice of employer-paid health insurance plans so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Dental and vision are also offered at very low premiums.
Every employee is offered generous stock options, vested over 4 years.
401k match & monthly wellness stipend.

Our Values:

Educators are Magic: Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.
Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
Community: Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.
Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.
Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.
Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.
Excellence: Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.

About the company

MagicSchool AI provides an AI-powered education platform with tools for lesson planning, assessment creation, and personalized learning for teachers, schools, and districts. Users access a cloud-based, modular set of features for planning, assessing, and adapting content to individual students. It differentiates itself by seamless integration with existing educational technology, offering a single suite with a clear path from free usage to enterprise deployments. Its goal is to help teachers save time and improve student outcomes by making AI-assisted instruction easy to use in real classrooms.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$122.4M

Headquarters

Denver, Colorado

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Hillsborough's June 2026 rollout validates enterprise demand across 233 schools.
The February 2025 $45 million Series B funds product, safety, and customer teams.
MagicSchool claims 7 million educators across 160 countries, creating strong top-of-funnel distribution.

What critics are saying

Broward County paused rollout in June 2026 over privacy, cybersecurity, and age-appropriate content.
A reported 20% layoff in August 2026 signals efficiency pressure after rapid scaling.
Student-facing AI creates existential FERPA and COPPA breach risk if one district publicly retracts.

What makes MagicSchool AI unique

Built by former educator Adeel Khan, MagicSchool speaks classroom, not Silicon Valley.
District-governed teacher workflows and MagicStudent student rooms keep educators in control.
Hillsborough County adopted it across 14,000 staff after a 5,000-teacher pilot.

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Benefits

Unlimited Paid Time Off
Health Insurance
Wellness Program
401(k) Company Match
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

18%

2 year growth

20%

MagicSchool

Sep 12th, 2026

$45M Series B Fundraise | MagicSchool

MagicSchool, providing AI for educators, raised $45M in Series B funding, reinforcing their commitment to being here to support educators and students for the long haul.

For Life Deals

Aug 6th, 2026

'Nobody wanted to give A former principal money': how an educator built an edtech AI startup with $63M from vcs.

'Nobody wanted to give A former principal money': how an educator built an edtech AI startup with $63M from vcs. Editor's note: The following is the first profile in a series of articles in coming weeks about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. In November 2022, Adeel Khan was doing something rare for a longtime educator: taking time off. Having launched his career as a teacher in Atlanta Public Schools, Khan became an assistant principal before founding his own public high school in Denver. After a year spent coaching principals at the district office, he decided to take a "personal sabbatical." Then, ChatGPT came out. Khan began tinkering with the new technology, fascinated by its potential. "I actually went out to my old school building, the one that I founded, and started using it with teachers," Khan recalls. He ran workshops and asked the educators to use the tool in as many scenarios as possible. The responses were varied. Most teachers barely touched it. A few tried, but felt doing the work manually was faster. However, some had a lightbulb moment. "There were one or two teachers who told me, 'This has completely revolutionized the way I teach,' " Khan said in an interview with Crunchbase News. Seeing that divide sparked something in him. "I thought this technology could impact every teacher, not just teachers who are really enthusiastic about using new technologies," Khan said. "So the task then was, 'How can we take all the power of this new technology and make it really accessible to teachers?'" Building the 'vertical AI' for K-12. That experiment set the groundwork for MagicSchool AI, a platform designed as an all-in-one AI operating system for K-12 educators and students. For teachers, the tool acts as a daily assistant. It performs tasks like building rubrics, differentiating assignments for varied learning levels, and generating practice worksheets and reading materials. The platform also helps educators offer monitored AI experiences directly to students. Those experiences range from algebra tutors to writing assistants customized with state exam rubrics that deliver tailored feedback to help students revise their essays. "You can think of MagicSchool as the vertical AI solution for K-12 schools," Khan said. "Enterprises are adopting generative AI in other fields... Like in law, there's Harvey and Legora that are vertical AI for legal firms. We're kind of that, but for K-12 schools." Today, the company's primary customers are school districts that want to provide a safe, governed environment for generative AI that aligns with data privacy rules and local curriculum priorities. MagicSchool now partners with large school systems, including Denver Public Schools, and Florida's Broward County Schools and Hillsborough County Schools, as well as private institutions. "One in five children in America go to a school that is in partnership with MagicSchool," Khan noted. Additionally, roughly 8 million educators worldwide have signed up for the platform, he said. The uphill battle to raise capital. Despite the platform's rapid adoption, Khan's path to raising capital for MagicSchool was a challenge. In the beginning, he worked with hourly contractors and lacked a formal business model. "I had no real business plan," Khan said. "The most successful tech companies from my perspective as a consumer were the ones that just got a lot of users, and that was my goal - I was like 'let's just get a lot of people using this, and we'll figure it out from there.'" Once MagicSchool's user base neared 1 million, Khan began pitching venture capitalists. However, when compared to standard Silicon Valley profiles, his background as an educator initially proved to be a hurdle rather than a selling point. "Nobody wanted to give a former principal money," Khan said, recalling "quite literally hundreds of meetings" before securing an institutional investor. "I think that investors are taught to pattern match," he noted. "They're saying, 'Hey, well, did you go to Stanford? Are you a tech person? Did you work at Google? '... I have none of those things on my resume." Even edtech-focused investors were hesitant, leaving Khan frustrated as he watched other founders secure millions based purely on tech-heavy resumes. "I remember seeing other edtech companies right around our size raise seed rounds... with no product, no sales, no nothing," he recalled. " I would think, 'People know what our product is. Millions of teachers know what our product is, and nobody's heard of that one.'" To overcome the skepticism, Khan relied strictly on impressive growth metrics, convincing investors during every fundraising stage that the business' "traction was undeniable." The strategy paid off. Following early angel investor checks, MagicSchool went on to raise a $2.4 million seed round led by Colorado-based Range Ventures. To date, the company has raised nearly $63 million in total funding, driven by strong financial growth, including 3x year-over-year revenue growth at the end of last year, according to Khan. The startup's other backers include Bain Capital Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Smash Capital and GSV Ventures. Expertise as the next wave of innovation. Although Khan no longer manages the high school he founded, he stays connected to the classroom through district visits. The school remains a top-performing public school in Denver under a former founding team member, he noted. "Of course, I miss that," Khan admits. "There's nothing that can replace the relationship you build over a long period of time with students." Yet, his deep-rooted experience in education ultimately became MagicSchool's greatest asset - a trend Khan sees taking hold across the broader AI landscape as domain experts step up to build industry-specific tools. "I think that what we've learned over time is that the model is no longer the differentiator," Khan says. "How you contextualize the model with the real problems that people have in the work that they're doing, and specific expertise, is the thing that's going to unlock the next wave of innovation and impact for generative AI."

The SaaS News

Aug 6th, 2026

MagicSchool raises $45M Series B.

MagicSchool raises $45M Series B. MagicSchool raises $45M in a Series B round led by Valor Equity Partners to expand its AI-driven platform for K-12 educators and students. Updated August 05, 2026 MagicSchool, based in the United States, is an AI-powered edtech platform designed to support educators and students. The company has raised $45 million Series B funding round. Investors. This round was led by Valor Equity Partners, with additional participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Atreides Management, and Smash Capital. MagicSchool use of funds. MagicSchool plans to use the new capital to expand its product and engineering teams, develop additional AI-driven capabilities, strengthen school partnerships, and grow its customer experience team. The company also intends to double down on its commitment to safety and responsibility by enhancing product testing and expanding its dedicated safety team. About MagicSchool. Founded in 2023 by Adeel Khan, MagicSchool provides an AI co-pilot for educators to assist with instructional differentiation, language learning, and adaptive tutoring. The company's mission is to empower educators to perform their best work for students, operating with a specific focus on the K-12 education sector. Funding details. Company: MagicSchool Raised: $45M Round: Series B Funding Date: February 11, 2025 Lead Investor: Valor Equity Partners Additional Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Atreides Management, Smash Capital Software Category: Edtech Source: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/educator-built-edtech-startup-ai-magicschool-kahn/ Updated August 05, 2026

The Manila Times

Jun 8th, 2026

Hillsborough County Public Schools partners with MagicSchool to amplify educator impact and strengthen student learning.

Hillsborough County Public Schools partners with MagicSchool to amplify educator impact and strengthen student learning. By GlobeNewswire June 8, 2026 One of the largest school districts in the country brings education-first AI to teachers, sparking creativity, saving time, and unlocking potential for every kind of learner TAMPA, Fla., June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) and MagicSchool, the #1 AI platform for schools, have partnered to bring trusted, education-first AI to over 14,000 teachers, principals, instructional coaches, and school leaders across the district. As the 7th largest school district in the country, serving more than 218,000 students across the greater Tampa area, Hillsborough is working closely with MagicSchool to help educators save time, personalize instruction, and improve student outcomes through AI tools created solely for education. MagicSchool is trusted by more than 7 million educators across 160 countries. The partnership builds on a successful pilot program in the 2025/2026 school year, during which more than 5,000 Hillsborough educators used MagicSchool across 233 schools and district departments. During the pilot, 94% of participating teachers found the platform useful, and 65% reported saving at least an hour every week, time that went directly back to students and their personal lives. "We're encouraged by the impact we're seeing with MagicSchool and the valuable time it's giving back to our teachers," said Gary Brady, chief academic officer for Hillsborough County Public Schools. "It's a tool designed to support teachers-not replace them. Human connection, collaboration and critical thinking remain at the heart of learning, and nothing can ever replace a strong teacher in the classroom." "Hillsborough has been an extraordinary partner, and what we've seen from their educators during this pilot is exactly why we built MagicSchool," said Adeel Khan, founder and CEO of MagicSchool. "Hillsborough teachers are getting their time back, and they're spending it exactly where it matters: with students. AI built for education can clear the path for the irreplaceable human part of teaching: the relationships, the real-time judgment, and the moments that only a great teacher can create." MagicSchool was built by educators for educators, offering AI tools that are designed for how school districts like Hillsborough support teaching and learning. Every tool is grounded in the district's own curriculum, aligned to Florida teaching standards, and designed to support teachers on a daily basis. MagicSchool is available where and when teachers need it, connected to the content and context they are already working from. For districts, that means leaders gain the visibility, control, and safeguards they need to adopt AI responsibly. With strong privacy protections and built-in oversight, MagicSchool makes it possible to scale AI in a way that's safe, aligned, and grounded in classroom impact. For Hillsborough educators, that support comes through help with routine, time-consuming administrative and planning tasks that can otherwise pull them away from students. By streamlining those behind-the-scenes responsibilities, teachers are able to spend more of their time focused on instruction, building relationships with students and families, and meeting individual student needs. When teachers have more time and clarity to do their work, they can focus on what matters most-the human work of teaching. Kelly Whitton, a teacher at Wharton High School, spent the school year testing MagicSchool, and has found the platform to be incredibly helpful. "It saves me so much time," she said. "Things that used to take me an hour could take 2-3 minutes now." powered by Nicole Korte, a current Hillsborough County classroom teacher, said "I want to personally thank MagicSchool AI for the amount of time it has given me. If there is one thing that I always need more of, it's time. As a result, I am able to focus more on my students: their needs, their interests, and their passion for learning." To support educators, HCPS has invested in professional AI training alongside the platform. Teachers who complete three hours of MagicSchool professional development by June 30, 2026 earn in-service points, and school leaders can request no-cost sessions for their teams. About Hillsborough County Public Schools Hillsborough County Public Schools is the nation's seventh largest school district, serving over 218,000 students across Hillsborough County, Florida. Guided by a commitment to student achievement and innovation, the district provides a broad range of academic and career pathways designed to prepare students for success after graduation. For more information or to enroll, visit hillsboroughschools.org. About MagicSchool MagicSchool is the AI Operating System for Schools, used by millions of educators worldwide. It gives teachers a safe, effective AI assistant that saves 7-10 hours each week and helps them focus on what matters most: their students. With standards-aligned tools and built-in safeguards, teachers can plan, assess, and differentiate more efficiently while maintaining instructional integrity. Students learn through guided, teacher-led AI experiences that build critical thinking and AI literacy. District leaders get the oversight and control they need to adopt AI responsibly, with strong privacy protections and clear visibility across their system. Debra Bellanti Director of Communications, Hillsborough County Public Schools [email protected] [email protected]

University of North Georgia

Sep 22nd, 2025

Future teachers learn ways to incorporate AI

The University of North Georgia's (UNG) College of Education has partnered with MagicSchool to integrate artificial intelligence software into its coursework for future educators.

MagicSchool AI

Head of Trust & Safety

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