Jobs at Newsela
Newsela is a leading educational technology platform that delivers up-to-date news articles tailored for students and teachers. By leveraging AI to adjust reading levels and embedding analytics dashboards, the company has become a go-to tool for curriculum designers worldwide. Its focus on data‑driven instruction places it at the intersection of edtech and software innovation.
Roles at Newsela span software engineering, product management, data science, UX/UI design, marketing, sales, and operations. Engineers work on real‑time content recommendation engines and scalable cloud infrastructure. Product teams iterate on the adaptive learning experience, while data scientists mine usage metrics to improve student outcomes. Candidates can expect a hybrid work model, regular career development sessions, and a culture that rewards experimentation.
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Senior Manager, Brand Design
Company: Newsela
Location: USA
Posted Apr 08, 2024
The Sr. Manager Brand Design role at Newsela offers a fast-paced environment for experienced designers to grow and lead a team. The role involves providing creative direction, managing designers, and collaborating with various departments. The successful candidate will have a deep impact on Newsela's public appearance and brands, with a base compensation range of $115,000 - $125,000. Experience in tech or edtech is a plus.
Senior Manager, Brand Design
Company: Newsela
Location: Remote
Posted Apr 04, 2024
The Sr. Manager, Brand Design role at Newsela offers a fast-paced environment for experienced designers to provide creative direction and manage a team of 3 designers. The role involves working cross-functionally with various departments and having a significant impact on Newsela's public appearance. The ideal candidate should have 8+ years of experience, including team management, strong design skills, and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Google Suite. The base compensation range is $115,000 - $125,000, with additional incentives.
Director - Product Design
Company: Newsela
Location: USA
Posted Apr 15, 2024
The Director of Product Design will lead the design strategy and vision for Newsela's products, fostering a high-performing design team and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role offers an impact on design strategy, a fun team environment, and opportunities for professional growth. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of team leadership and 7+ years of product design experience, with expertise in UX/Prototyping & Interaction Design, UI/Visual Design, and Design Thinking.
Spanish Language Assessment Contributor, Freelance
Company: Newsela
Location: USA
Posted Apr 01, 2024
The Spanish Assessment Contributors role involves creating daily assessments, writing and editing Spanish quizzes, and occasionally tagging standards within Newsela content. The ideal candidate should have experience in designing Spanish-language assessments, strong professional writing skills, and knowledge of standards and assessment design. Familiarity with formative activities and Understanding by Design framework is a plus. This role is compensated on a per-task basis.
Director, Product Design
Company: Newsela
Location: Remote
Posted Apr 13, 2024
The Director, Product Design role at Newsela involves leading design strategy and vision across products, retaining and developing a high-performing design team, producing innovative designs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in product design and leading design teams, with expertise in various design areas and cross-functional partnerships. The role offers a competitive base compensation, incentive stock options, bonus, and benefits.
Professional Learning Manager
Company: Newsela
Location: USA
Posted Apr 11, 2024
The Professional Learning Manager's role at Newsela involves serving as a consultant to dedicated district accounts, creating and delivering customer-specific professional learning, and driving customer satisfaction and product engagement. The role requires delivering high-quality professional learning sessions to educators and administrators across the country, inspiring participants with compelling delivery and engagement tactics, and tailoring sessions to align with customer goals. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of teaching experience, experience in developing and leading professional learning, and the ability to build relationships with district leaders. The role offers the opportunity to utilize teaching experience to help teachers seamlessly infuse technology into their instructional practice, directly impacting user adoption and engagement on a national scale.
Senior Manager, Brand Design
Company: Newsela
Location: Worldwide
Posted Apr 14, 2024
<p><span style=fontsize><strong>The role <strong><span><p> <p><span style=fontweight>The Sr Manager Brand Design will play an integral role as part of our Marketing organization by providing brand and creative guidance cross functionally throughout Newsela Reporting to the Vice President of Marketing Communications and Public Affairs you will provide creative direction by ideating and creating marketing campaign creative wrappers You will manage a team of 3 designers and their work across various disciplines while also operating as a senior creative contributor when needed to create documents illustrations website designs etc You will work cross functionally partnering closely with Marketing Sales Customer Success and Product Design<span><p> <p><span style=fontsize><strong>Why youll love this role<strong><span><p> <ul style=> <li style=><span style=fontweight>Joining our growing Marketing team youll have the opportunity to join a fastpaced environment that challenges your creative skills while helping other creatives grow<span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>Youll have the opportunity to grow particularly in building out creative concepting portfolios that span events digital media and brandsubbrand work<span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>Youll have a deep and direct impact on the public appearance of Newsela and its brands Your work is seen and felt by all current and prospective Newsela users<span><li> <ul> <p><span style=fontsize><strong>Why youre a great fit<strong><span style=fontweight> <span><span><p> <ul style=> <li style=><span style=fontweight>You have 8+ years of experience with at least 2 years managing a team <span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>You are able to adapt quickly to a fastpaced environment<span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>You have a strong eye for design and a robust design skill<span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>You have experience with Adobe Creative Suite Illustrator Photoshop Figma and Google Suite<span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>You have experience with design operations planning<span><li> <li style=><span style=fontweight>Bonus if you have experience in the tech space or edtech space <span><li> <ul> <p><span style=fontsize>Base compensation range $115000 $125000 Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience <span><p><img src=httpsremotivecomjobtrack1906073blankgifsource=publicapi alt=>
Senior FP&A Analyst, Sales
Company: Newsela
Location: Remote
Posted Apr 16, 2024
<p><span><strong>The role <strong><span><p> <p><span>The Senior Financial Planning amp Analysis Analyst will join a tightknit FPampA team that is highly committed to building out a bestinclass operational and analytical function Serving as a key business and strategic partner you will help to ensure that financial strategic and operational objectives for the business are met You will design and refine financial and operating models to help predict future performance perform scenario analyses and help to guide the business on strategic decisions in addition to preparing monthly and quarterly management reporting Additionally youll participate in process improvement initiatives to support our growth and drive efficiencies that help us scale as an FPampA team <span><p> <p><span>Were hiring for 1 role across Newsela to support <span><p> <ol><li><span>Sales <span><li> <ol><p><span><strong>Why youll love this role<strong><span><p> <ul><li><span>You will participate in the buildout of a bestinclass cloud FPampA system and the operational models that support it <span><li> <li><span>Youll have significant exposure to executive leadership and other business partners making use of your exceptional communication skills and ability to translate complex financial concepts across a variety of audiences<span><li> <li><span>You will put your knowledge of metrics to use working at the heart of the financial and operational strategy and planning that fuel Newselas high growth across the organization<span><li> <li><span>Youll have an invaluable opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of the K12 market <span><li> <li><span>Your work will help ensure the growth and impact of a missiondriven business that is transforming the way students learn through current engaging learning content<span><li> <ul><p><span><strong>Why youre a great fit <strong><span><p> <ul><li><span>You have 3+ years of FPampA experience preferably in a highgrowth B2B SaaS environment working crossfunctionally and building relationships with business partners and supporting the Sales Function<span><li> <li><span>You have demonstrated success in building budgets and forecasts financial modeling and have a keen understanding of financial close and forecasting processes <span><li> <li><span>You possess an understanding of an Sales org and can support the management of that business with proactive recommendations and insights toward long and shortterm targets<span><li> <li><span>Youre competent in working with large data sets and BI reporting tools Looker Tableau Alteryx etc Additionally youre experienced in using sales and financial systems Salesforce Adaptive Insights NetSuite etc and have advanced skills in Excel<span><li> <ul><p><strong><span>Why youll love working at Newsela<span><strong><p> <ul><li><span>Health amp Wellness Access to the worlds leading medical experts for healthcare pets included Discounts and resources to stay healthy mind body and soul<span><li> <li><span>Work From Home Almost all of our roles are fully remote tech stipend included<span><li> <li><span>Supporting ALL Families Supplemental programs and time off to take care of your family and yourself<span><li> <li><span>Time Off Flexible PTO to recharge including Sabbatical Leave <span><li> <li><span>Professional Development Annual stipends for continued learning and education <span><li> <li><span>Make A Difference No matter your role or department the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers<span><li> <ul><p><span><strong>Base compensation<strong> $105000 $115000 Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience <span><p>
Senior Product Manager, Search
Company: Newsela
Location: Remote
Posted Mar 20, 2024
The job posting is for a Senior Product Manager position at Newsela, responsible for improving the Content Discovery experience. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in product strategy, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Senior FP&A Analyst - Sales
Company: Newsela
Location: USA
Posted Apr 17, 2024
<p class=jobDescription> <p> <strong> The role <strong> <p> <p> The Senior Financial Planning amp Analysis Analyst will join a tightknit FPampA team that is highly committed to building out a bestinclass operational and analytical function Serving as a key business and strategic partner you will help to ensure that financial strategic and operational objectives for the business are met You will design and refine financial and operating models to help predict future performance perform scenario analyses and help to guide the business on strategic decisions in addition to preparing monthly and quarterly management reporting Additionally youll participate in process improvement initiatives to support our growth and drive efficiencies that help us scale as an FPampA team <p> <p> Were hiring for 1 role across Newsela to support <p> <ul> <li> <p> Sales <p> <li> <ul> <p> <strong> Why youll love this role <strong> <p> <ul> <li> <p> You will participate in the buildout of a bestinclass cloud FPampA system and the operational models that support it <p> <li> <li> <p> Youll have significant exposure to executive leadership and other business partners making use of your exceptional communication skills and ability to translate complex financial concepts across a variety of audiences <p> <li> <li> <p> You will put your knowledge of metrics to use working at the heart of the financial and operational strategy and planning that fuel Newselas high growth across the organization <p> <li> <li> <p> Youll have an invaluable opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of the K12 market <p> <li> <li> <p> Your work will help ensure the growth and impact of a missiondriven business that is transforming the way students learn through current engaging learning content <p> <li> <ul> <p> <strong> Why youre a great fit <strong> <p> <ul> <li> <p> You have 3+ years of FPampA experience preferably in a highgrowth B2B SaaS environment working crossfunctionally and building relationships with business partners and supporting the Sales Function <p> <li> <li> <p> You have demonstrated success in building budgets and forecasts financial modeling and have a keen understanding of financial close and forecasting processes <p> <li> <li> <p> You possess an understanding of an Sales org and can support the management of that business with proactive recommendations and insights toward long and shortterm targets <p> <li> <li> <p> Youre competent in working with large data sets and BI reporting tools Looker Tableau Alteryx etc Additionally youre experienced in using sales and financial systems Salesforce Adaptive Insights NetSuite etc and have advanced skills in Excel <p> <li> <ul> <p> <strong> Base compensation <strong> $105000 $115000 Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience <p><p>
Contractor LATAM for Senior-Level Site Reliability Engineering Services
Company: Newsela
Location: Latin America
Posted Apr 08, 2024
Newsela is hiring a Senior-Level Site Reliability Engineer based in Latin America. The role involves managing infrastructure, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving operational processes, and providing architectural planning support. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in site reliability, Terraform, AWS/GCP, container orchestration, and incident debugging. They should also be able to identify improvements for reliability, cost savings, and revenue, and lead initiatives with a data-driven approach.
Senior Technical Accounting Manager
Company: Newsela
Location: USA
Posted Mar 29, 2024
The job posting is looking for a Temporary Senior Technical Accounting Manager to oversee technical accounting transactions and related projects. The position requires technical accounting research and accounting documentation, and will help enable quality reporting and accounting operations that support the growth of the business.