Newsela

Own the vision and roadmap for how Newsela demonstrates its efficacy. Initiate and lead relationships with external research partners and schools in order to further the research and efficacy agenda. Lead the design and execution of research studies following best practices for quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.

As VP of Product for Newsela, you will be responsible for cultivating and maintaining a well-informed product point of view on strategic objectives emanating from company priorities. This point of view will enable you to prioritize the product roadmap for the web and native mobile applications on a quarterly basis to help the team deliver on quarterly targets. Working alongside your peers in design, data, and engineering, you will act as a servant leader to remove roadblocks impeding team progress against milestones.

The Director of Sales Strategy is a key member of the Finance and Sales Leadership team who is responsible for leading planning, analysis, reporting, automation and accountability across a team of 50+ Sales Reps, SDRs, Solutions Engineers, and Account Managers as this high-growth, mission-based SaaS company doubles in revenue and disrupts an industry. As part of the Finance team, you get to partner with the Chief Revenue Officer as well as Product, Marketing, Data and Customer Success to support a scalable sales team to more smartly achieve aggressive goals. You get to work with a group of people who are smart and passionate about building a business that is transforming a market segment. You also will get to build upon great momentum where you can mold and shape how our entire company approaches forecasting and planning, as well as driving greater data orientation in our sales and company decision making.

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that brings together engaging, accessible content with integrated assessments and insights to supercharge reading engagement and learning in every subject. We are dedicated to our mission to unlock the written word for everyone. Five years since our launch, Newsela is in 75% of schools, across all 50 U.S. states, in addition to being in over 180 countries. The result has been more engaged readers—and

As a Product Manager, Collections at Newsela, you will lead the development of new content products in Newsela’s portfolio. You will have a dual role 1) working collaboratively with Content, Product, Engineering, Data, Sales, and Marketing to launch new products, features and services on our site, and 2) own the management and ongoing development of these products throughout the product lifecycle to ensure their continued success.

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from hundreds of the best sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is instructionalized to meet students

We are looking for an Associate Product Manager to join the Product team focussed on Growth. Growth at Newsela seeks to improve the acquisition, engagement and retention of product users with a goal to optimize the path to purchase. Teachers, schools and districts have unique needs in how they discover content, use data insights and are involved at different stages of the purchase process.

We are seeking a proven Field Sales Executive to sell Newsela Pro at the district level. We are looking to link our incredible product with your SaaS sales expertise to bring Newsela PRO to classrooms across the country and, in turn, to revolutionize the way students become great readers.

Build a Customer marketing strategy and plan that fosters consistent product usage and retention, while also driving expansion of new products. Co-own expansion and upsell goals with Sales and track Marketing’s influence. Develop multi-channel campaign plans targeted towards existing Pro Customers (teachers & admins). Understand the Newsela PRO customer lifecycle and ensure touchpoint cadence and messaging are consistent. Own the ongoing calendar and cadence of communications to our Customers, including across online marketing, email, direct mail, events, and more.

Build marketing assets including display ads, print ads, social media assets, branded giveaway artwork, banners & tablecloths, emails, PDF & print collateral, direct mail, and more. Create templates for various types of assets. Provide creative direction and oversight on digital, print and video graphic projects. Work closely with the marketing team and product design teams to ensure alignment with overall Newsela brand guidelines. Work with freelance designers and agencies as needed. Lead photo and video shoots.

The Manager of Customer Satisfaction and Quality will work directly with a cross-functional team to enhance the overall experience of our customers and make them successful. You will monitor all customer interactions with the product and recommend specific areas of focus to target and improve, through a combination of data and user feedback. You will be tasked with measuring the overall satisfaction and quality of every aspect of our organization, focusing on the delivery of services to our customers, and the overall satisfaction of Newsela as a product.

Top edits at least 1 article per day with review. Fact-checks when needed. Adheres to AP style and Newsela Style Guide. Sources stories for the website that will meet curriculum needs and engage students. Loads at least 3 stories with beautiful images per day. Pushes articles through the wire. Does QA checks on headlines and first paragraphs from stories each day. Provides helpful, detailed feedback for levelers.

As Sales Enablement professionals, we want to have more strategic touch points with the sales team. We want to effectively communicate the value of Newsela, in a concise yet compelling way to help our growing sales team build pipeline and close deals faster. We do this by providing consistent, scalable enablement support and resources that allow sales and sales management to add value in every interaction.

The Implementation Specialist will work closely with our external customers and across internal Community, Sales, and Account Management teams to ensure high levels of client use, meet current business objectives, and expand the reach of our client contact to increase client onboarding and account renewal. You will help drive use across multiple segments including students, teachers, and admin and suggest improvements to our onboarding process. Additionally, you will enhance and streamline our engagement efforts. This position reports to the Manager of Engagement Operations.

As a member of our Newsela Sales team, you will handle a portfolio of enterprise accounts of our Newsela PRO customers. You are the “go to” for district-level communication and coordination. We want to keep our Newsela PRO customers delighted and engaged in using Newsela PRO all year long. You will effectively engage and build relationships with key account decision-makers, primarily working with school principals, district representatives and superintendents.

Write thoughtful, literate code under the guidance of a Senior Web Developer. Work on an interdisciplinary team to translate high-level project goals into concrete tasks. Bring technical expertise and creativity to your projects and conversations. Handle sometimes competing priorities through good time management and communication. Over 3 years of professional full-stack web application development experience. Demonstrated contributions to complex, high-traffic, performance-optimized web applications. Advanced demonstrated fluency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Hands-on experience with front-end frameworks, particularly React and Redux (or another Flux-like architecture). Demonstrated ability to be self-driven and work with minimal supervision.

Web Application Developers at Newsela work on big problems in literacy education, from building the infrastructure necessary to handle tens of millions of users to solving novel problems in text complexity and personalization. We believe that code is language and we care deeply about the relationships developers have with each other and the company as a whole. Developers work closely with product managers, designers, and domain experts to build software that’s beautiful and useful. If you love working on features that make a real difference, this role is for you.

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from hundreds of the best sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is instructionalized to meet students

As a key member of our Sales leadership team, your role is to lead and manage our Inside Sales Executives. Using a data driven approach, you will identify new opportunities and create strategic plans to penetrate the market and develop long lasting relationships. You are responsible for hiring and retaining a highly skilled team that will look to you for support with their professional development and continued success in sales. You will link our incredible product with your expertise to bring Newsela PRO to schools across the country and, in turn, to revolutionize the way students become great readers.

Interaction design. You geek out on coming up with the perfect affordances, transitions, latest web and mobile patterns but always use accessibility guidelines and usability findings to inform your design decisions. You breakdown complex features into reusable components that ultimately help users find what they are looking for and get the job done. Visual design. You have impeccable taste and pixel perfect standards across various platforms (iOS, Android and Web). You have a deep understanding of grids, colors, layout, imagery, iconography and typography. Process. You think in terms of design systems. As the system evolves, you’ll proactively collaborate with front-end engineers and help designers make rational design choices based on new and existing components that you make. You’ll also be responsible for maintaining and documenting how they behave to make sure teams stay consistent and have what they need to design their feature set. Communication. As one of the key owners for the design system, you regularly share updates to designers when new components are available as well as educate the wider organization on how it works and the impact it brings to the organization. You make sure that other designers get the most out of the system.

We are looking for a Product Designer who is ready to join one of the most innovative education technology companies in the industry. Some familiarity with user-centered design principles, methodologies, best practices and approaches, is expected, but more than any one of these abilities, we are looking for someone that is hungry to learn and grow. Easy to work with, open to feedback, passionate and vocal about what is best for the user.

Lead a team in writing thoughtful code, building and documenting data models and providing easy access to data and insights.. Work with our Product, Data Science, and Revenue teams to create and maintain various kinds of analytical services and data systems. Build out our data infrastructure, which includes ingestion, storage, and analysis at scale, as well as the reporting systems used by analysts throughout the company. Act as the primary owner for the technical layer of our data systems, which currently include various items within the AWS stack as well as Luigi for our ETL framework

Assist the Community Team (Customer Success Team) with building predictive models to help increase engagement and usage across our customer base. Create dashboards and deliver insights. Lead advanced analysis designed to increase operational efficiencies. Supporting the senior members of the Data Team in their effort to provide expert analysis to the company. Design and analyze a variety of A/B tests. Writing SQL queries to extract data, cleaning and analyzing data in Python or R, and preparing presentations.