The Role

The Customer Optimization team is charged with leading efforts that will enable Newsela’s Customer (Sales & Customer Success) organization to scale. In this newly created role, you will build the capabilities to measure the effectiveness and impact of the various initiatives the Optimization team pursues. You’ll lead and manage weekly reporting and prioritization meetings with Customer leadership that enable us to identify, resource, and map out the most impactful initiatives for our growth. You’ll develop and implement a standard reporting framework and toolset that can be used to measure the impact our projects have made on the business. In addition, you’ll build a team that will ensure the proper reports and dashboards are made available to the functions within the Customer organization to help them use data to better perform their roles.

Why You’ll Love This Role 

You will be looked upon to lead an optimization function that applies data to the operational aspects of our business. Your work will help us drive more business, more quickly by providing visibility to the various aspects of our operations from employee efficiency to data accuracy. Newsela is a data-hungry organization with a huge appetite for using data to help make decisions and drive the business; you’ll be part of the Optimization team that helps provide that data to teams across the company. Your work will directly enable Newsela’s Customer organization to maximize impact and scale our existing client base, ultimately helping shape the future of education and provide accessible, engaging reading content to K12 students and teachers nationwide.  

Why We’ll Love You:

With 3-5 years of experience in business/sales operations and/or data analysis roles, you have demonstrated success determining data requirements, creating reporting tools to interrogate and analyze data, and providing insights to the business to drive impactful change. You have an engine that never stops, and while being a data-minded professional, you are supremely operations-oriented and always looking for better, more scalable ways to do things. Your ability to dig deep into data as well as your ability to mentor junior data employees have made you a valuable resource in your previous roles because you’re able to identify and communicate insights to help business stakeholders make decisions. You should have strong experience working with large data sets across multiple systems. We happen to primarily use SFDC, Gainsight Looker, Snowflake and Netsuite, so experience with these systems is a huge plus.

 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.