The Role:

The Senior Project Manager will oversee the development of products from start to finish to ensure they meet stakeholder needs and preferences. You will partner with the key stakeholders across Technology, Design, Product and Data, to develop cohesive delivery goals that align with our overall organizational goals. Drawing on your knowledge of the technical architectures and software engineering, you’ll also guide and challenge the technology solutions we build, and will advocate for and effectively prioritize work. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into requirements. You will also define the vision for the team’s product, creating a technology roadmap based on this vision. 

Why You’ll Love This Role: 

This role sits at the critical intersection of Technology and Product and will enable the best Newsela has to offer. The strategy and vision you help transform into reality will directly impact the learning and teaching experience of millions of users across the U.S. Your work will enable educational leadership to use the most relevant, engaging features and content in a timely, efficient manner, which will ultimately help drive higher engagement with Newsela’s product. You will have the opportunity to help shape the future of K-12 education by building and delivering delightful, engaging, intuitive products, and will help influence our product roadmap as we evolve our product suite. You’ll get to work closely with our Product and Technology teams to influence strategy and execution of work. 

Why We’ll Love You: 

You are a creative, methodical project manager with more than 8+ years of relevant software development, project management or product management experience, building, refining, and optimizing a digital product ecosystem. You clearly and convincingly use data to make smart decisions about where to focus in order to achieve goals. You have demonstrated success in a software engineering environment where increasing user engagement and usage was a focus. You’re a flexible, effective communicator, able to fluidly translate needs and insights across technical, operational, design, and leadership audiences. You are also an expert project manager, able to outline and execute clear project roadmaps, manage a team to deadlines, and grow and upskill your team. You have credentials (ideally CSPO, CSM, PMP or similar certification(s)), and are proficient in JIRA or similar software applications to manage iterations and develop reporting dashboards. Additionally, you are passionate about growing and enabling your team, with a history of mentoring direct reports to help them develop the technical skills, communication and prioritization of work necessary to build great products. You have In-depth knowledge of scrum and agile software development methodologies, and knowledge of product development architecture. Most of all, strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

About Newsela  

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.