The Role

The Digital Marketing Lead will hold three key areas of responsibility: owning Newsela’s digital experience strategy and optimization; driving paid media strategy and execution; and establishing digital marketing best practices across the company. With the majority of your efforts focused on the first, you will serve as point person for developing and executing on a digital strategy to ensure awareness, consideration, thought leadership, and demand generation objectives are met. You will spearhead the re-launch of our global website, managing internal and external stakeholders, conducting competitive site analysis, and ultimately optimizing performance of the site post-launch. You will also run point on working cross-functionally and with external agencies to ensure brand consistency across all digital properties.

Why You’ll Love This Role 

This is an opportunity to make a tangible business impact at a rapidly growing company that is helping shape the future of education. You’ll be working alongside some of the most passionate, inspired, world-class marketers and business professionals you’ll encounter in your career. In this role you will be helping to define the next phase of Newsela’s brand in the market, and will get to spearhead the digital manifestation of that strategy. Your work will directly contribute to growing Newsela’s impact on the K-12 market, and helping make reading more accessible and engaging for all readers.

Why We’ll Love You

You have a successful track record of launching dynamic, world-class websites targeting multiple audiences (preferably B2B), and may even have launched websites with eCommerce functionality. Your experience working with content management systems and tracking tools has enabled you to build a data-driven process for optimizing website performance (you’re a whiz with SEO and demand gen metrics, and can deftly align them to overall business goals). You are an expert in planning and executing digital media campaigns across SEM, paid social, display advertising, retargeting campaigns, etc. You are also able to seamlessly translate business requirements into technical execution, and know which levers to pull to get the job done. You do all of this, while actively seeking input from other teams to ensure collaboration and alignment at every step in the process.

About Newsela

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 100+ 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 where they are, with interactive tools and analytics to take them where they want to go. Newsela has become an essential solution for schools and districts, with a presence in over 90% of U.S. K-12 schools. Newsela is the content platform for the connected classroom.