The Role: 

The Program Manager for our School Segment will  define, execute and monitor School Segment Programs aimed at building and closing pipeline in a scalable fashion. Your work will include defining segmented transaction flows to support deal velocity, optimizing the school prospect and customer experience, and supporting cross functional coordination for day-to-day execution of the School Segment priorities. Reporting to the VP, School Segment on our Customer team, you’ll work closely with Sales, Strategy, SDRs, Sales Enablement, Customer Success, Marketing, Finance, and Product to ensure timely execution of the School Segment roadmap and drive alignment to School Segment priorities, ultimately maximizing School revenue and operational scalability.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

You will get to take a project from inception to scale, defining the end goals and building success KPIs and reporting systems from scratch. The programs you build will be highly visible, and will empower other teams to operate more efficiently and make more informed decisions. Your work will directly impact our ability to scale Newsela’s reach in our Schools Segment and drive customer engagement, bring our products to more educators and students, and enable accessible, engaging learning that empowers students. In addition to helping our business grow, you will get to work with an enthusiastic, cross-functional team to catapult Newsela’s growth as we scale our national Sales organization.

Why We’ll Love You:

You have 5-7 years of experience working on large scale transformations, program management, or management consulting. You have demonstrated success developing program management to support go-to-market technology transformations (e.g. Salesforce CRM / CPQ), including working with other teams to scope dependencies and requirements and defining KPIs and internal reporting mechanisms to drive success. You are creative, strategic and systematic in your approach to solving problems and implementing systems. You’re also a self-starter, able to manage complex projects on a tight timeline, and are comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment. While not required, experience in the K-12 education space and/or customer experience is a bonus.

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.