Case study
EDTECH PII SECURITY
How Paper Scaled Their Workforce and Secured Sensitive Data
…While Fostering Leadership Within Their Engineering Team
The Challenge of Finding PII Compliance-Savvy Talent for EdTech
Paper, a Canada-based personalized learning platform, found itself at a pivotal moment of growth:
To meet demand, they needed to expand their team and integrate new hires seamlessly into their culture and processes.
The challenge was magnified by the need to handle sensitive information about individuals under 18 securely.
Among other things, additional team members would be tasked with enhancing their online tutoring sessions and providing contextualized feedback while maintaining rigorous data security standards.
Ubiminds' Strategic Solution:
Learn From the Best!
Paper planned and configured software for encryption and security policies, while Ubiminds IT and DPO teams executed measures to ensure Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive stays safe.
Talent Acquisition: Ubiminds scouted and negotiated with skilled professionals in Quality Engineering, Data Quality Engineering, Application Security architecture, and Front and Backend Development to boost Paper's capacity.
Team Integration: Ubiminds ensured that new hires were fully integrated into Paper's culture, processes, and goals.
Security Measures: Ubiminds provided hardware, configured machines, managed personnel, and implemented strict security policies to protect sensitive data.
Paper in a nutshell
Paper is a personalized learning platform that provides tutoring, enrichment, and college & career support for K-12 students. They are dedicated to delivering equitable, cost-effective, and impactful academic support that drives learning acceleration, student engagement, and future readiness.
1,9k team members
$379.1M+ raised, Series D on 2022
"We've had a number of Ubiminders who initially started just writing code and we were able to see a lot of them improve their leadership skills, really going deeper on the technology and growing to the point of being a lead for engineers in the US."
Brian Blount
SVP of Technology @ Paper
Make Hires Impress Your Team, Time and Again.
Ubiminds can be instrumental in helping IPO-bound companies fill critical roles while also supporting talent growth, ensuring they continuously add more value to teams like Paper's.
Speedy Fulfillment
of critical roles, finding skilled architects & other skilled pros for challenging positions.
Added Security
implemented via logical and physical security restrictions, as well as training.
Extra Value Added
continuously with ongoing (free!) impact management, and career development.