Newsela Careers In NYC

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As a Sales Researcher you will work across Newsela’s Sales organization to support aggressive growth by researching potential target accounts, identifying grants and conversation opportunities with accounts, and collaborating with Sales Development Reps to build sales pipeline for Inside and Field Sales Reps. You’ll be responsible for identifying key needs and opportunities that ultimately lead to qualified opportunities for our Sales team, who will convert prospects into long-term customers. You will also help manage inbound teacher calls and live chat conversations.

This is a rare opportunity to make an impact on how Newsela thinks about data during a critical time in the company’s evolution. You will work closely with the Manager of Data Warehouse and other key stakeholders to optimize the most critical enterprise-wide KPIs that drive business growth and engagement. Using cutting-edge cloud technology, your work will combine deep analytics with analysis of user behavior, and will serve as the backbone of business intelligence and decision-making for Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success. These insights will also be leveraged for C-level and Board reporting across Newsela. You will be joining the Data team as it doubles in size over the next year, and will help build the foundation for a product that transforms education through reading engagement. 

As the Field Marketing Manager, you are the business strategist and partner to our Sales team. You will serve as the marketing leader of your assigned sales territory(ies) and will create and own the Territory Marketing Plan that ensures your region(s) are achieving business goals. You will own and deliver all region-specific marketing activities in the Territory Marketing Plan, while influencing, orchestrating, and providing visibility to other areas of the overall national Marketing plan that span multiple Sales regions. 

The Assessment Associate will support the creation of engaging assessments for Newsela content that meet our users’ needs. In this role, you will contribute to the design of assessments, give feedback to freelance contributors on how to build out exceptional assessments, and conduct research and analysis to ensure our assessments are consistent and aligned to best practices. You will also lead the charge in researching assessments (best practices, efficacy, and shifting state standards), in addition to establishing and tracking quality metrics. You will play a hands-on role in helping Newsela operationalize the assessment features of our product, and in turn enable improved learning outcomes for students across the U.S.

The Product Designer will play an active role in designing beautiful, user-centric solutions for Newsela’s platform (across mobile, desktop, and tablet). As part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional team, your day to day will involve working closely with product managers, researchers, data analysts, and engineers at each step of the process to collect feedback and refine solutions, ultimately culminating in a design strategy and execution that meets the needs of our users. You’ll play an active role in shaping your product team’s roadmap by understanding and advocating for the needs of our users (whether they be teachers, school district leadership, or a 6-year-old student). 

You will be part of a regional sales team and the overall face of Newsela out in the market. As a Field Sales Rep, you will be responsible for building relationships with key decision makers at the school district level in addition to selling Newsela’s PRO and Custom Collections to bring engaging reading content to schools district-wide. In your day to day, you will do everything from pipeline management and forecasting, to designing lead generation campaigns and managing sales through the entire lifecycle. You will also become well-versed in your territory’s funding, state initiatives, demographics, and K-12 education landscape, which will help inform your overall sales strategy. This is a remote role.

As a Content Solution Architect you will be a member of Newsela’s Sales team; you will build relationships with districts across the country, each with distinct content and instructional needs. Working closely with the field sales team, you will apply your pedagogical expertise and consultative skills to architect content solutions that delight districts, teachers and students by enabling engaging and aligned learning to take place in classrooms. By habit, you rely on data, research and industry best practices to inform your day to day, and on your creativity and ingenuity to ensure the final output is delightful to our users.

As a Content Solution Architect you will be a member of Newsela’s Sales team; you will build relationships with districts across the country, each with distinct content and instructional needs. Working closely with the field sales team, you will apply your pedagogical expertise and consultative skills to architect content solutions that delight districts, teachers and students by enabling engaging and aligned learning to take place in classrooms. By habit, you rely on data, research and industry best practices to inform your day to day, and on your creativity and ingenuity to ensure the final output is delightful to our users.

As the Staff Accountant, you will assist in the daily operations of the finance department. You will work directly with the Controller & Senior Accountant in carrying out the responsibilities of the finance department including financial reporting and regulatory compliance. You’ll own our AP and accruals, process invoices, manage T&E expenses, and ensure everything is coded appropriately. You’ll also assist with financial and tax audits, and perform month-end close activities (including reconciliations and rollforwards).

The Salesforce.com (SFDC) Administrator will serve as the functional owner of our SFDC CPQ functionlity, and help lead the ongoing development and enhancements of our SFDC instance. Part administrator, part SFDC Analyst, part project manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day configuration, support, maintenance and improvement of our CRM platform to enahance our quote to order processes Your work will ensure the scalable, timely, and quality organization and tracking of our customer base, and ultimately help us better deliver instructional content that is transforming K-12 education.

You will have a direct impact in making Newsela’s history and social studies content more accessible and engaging to readers of all ages. Your work will affect how teachers and students engage with Newsela, and in turn help deepen the impact of our mission to make reading accessible and engaging for all learners.

We are looking for a number of independent designers who can work in a fast paced environment and can support a variety of projects ranging from inspiring emails to defining next generation classroom products. Reliable, data driven, detail oriented, a sense of humor, are a just a few reasons why we can’t wait to work with you. You are a jack of all trades, but a master of at least one of these tools in a designers’ toolkit:

In this role, you will be a part of a team tasked with reshaping curriculum products for districts, schools, and teachers. You will support our content production efforts across a diverse variety of subjects. Your work will directly affect how teachers and students interact with Newsela, and in turn help deepen the impact of our mission to make reading accessible and engaging for all learners.

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.

Lead a small, successful team of engineers who make sure our students and teachers have access to the best possible content for their classrooms. Write thoughtful, literate code and build the skills of those around you. Work with an interdisciplinary team to translate business goals into concrete tasks. Maintain a technical roadmap and a stable backlog of meaningful work. Handle often competing priorities through good time management and communication.