Innovation Explodes At BrainPOP

At BrainPOP, knowledge is powerful — but it’s also innovative, creative and essential. As a learning resource company supporting core and supplemental subjects, BrainPOP is dedicated to helping young learners reach their full potential. “Connecting with kids and meeting them where they are will always be at the heart of what we do,” said Chief Creative Officer Mike Watanabe. Today, BrainPOP’s platform reaches about 25 million students annually. And just like the students they strive to help, every employee is also empowered to pursue their own growth — whatever that looks like. “Your work will not only be seen,” Watanabe said. “It will help grow the platform upon which we empower kids to shape the world around and within them.”

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COHESIVE COMMUNICATION

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The best tech tool? Working together.

According to Michael Gi, or “MKG” as he’s known to his teammates, the most valuable tool in his tech stack isn’t always a tangible one. “Communication: Any tool that lets me coordinate with teammates everywhere is one that I love — think Slack, Loom and Figjam,” he said. As a leader, MKG understands that alignment is essential to team health, and it’s that same focus that has allowed his team to recently implement a new organization and tracking structure to scale more easily, together. “We’re passionate about our work and care tremendously about each other!”

Michael “MKG” Gi

Associate Director, Project Management

We’re not afraid to have fun and inject some personality into our everyday work.

FREEDOM TO EXPLORE

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Transforming creative expression into confidence

Mike Watanabe

Chief Creative Officer

As chief creative officer, Mike Watanabe knows that leading a team of creatives requires a nuanced approach. “We all know what it’s like to not understand something, to feel lost or behind,” he said. “Everyone has to know why we do what we do — and for us, that’s turning confusion into confidence.” By intentionally making room within team culture to celebrate creative points of view, Watanabe is driven to help his employees’ work shine on their own terms. “This keeps our solutions novel, and the spark of curiosity makes it worth the extra time it takes to allow for a diversity of approaches.”

I can look at each member of the creative team and think of the positive directions they’ve pulled us in, how they’ve made us all more reflective, more clever, more eloquent and more empathetic.

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