Senior Product Manager, Search

The role: 

As Senior Product Manager on our Discovery team, you will be responsible for improving the Content Discovery experience on Newsela to help teachers and students find great content for their classrooms. You will leverage your strong analytical skills to dig into data and identify the opportunities that drive the largest impact. You will own and manage core functions of the discovery experience and drive impact through iteration in partnership with Content, Engineering, Design, and Data Science.  We are looking to bring on talented Product Managers passionate about optimizing content discovery experiences through enhancements to search relevance, recommendations, and personalization. Come and help us achieve our mission of delivering meaningful classroom learning to every student!

Why you’ll love this role:

• You will be trusted to take ownership of your team and to develop a vision, strategy, and roadmap based on Newsela’s high-level goals
• You will work directly with your engineering, design, research, and marketing colleagues (among others) to bring your ideas to life
• You will have the opportunity to work closely and cross-functionally with a team of high-functioning and collaborative Product Managers eager to make a substantial impact across our products
• You will leverage research and data to find opportunities to create a meaningful and impactful experience for our users 
• You will define and deliver on both short- and long-term product goals 
• You’ll build on your experience with experimentation, leading both successful and failed experiments, but using the information gathered from either scenario to feed future hypotheses
• You will be encouraged to take risks and to propose new, big ideas that yield real impact for our users

Why you’re a great fit:

• You have 4+ years of experience in a Product Management function scaling new or existing products, especially products with search capabilities (where users are searching for some type of content)
• You have 2+ years of experience working within K-12 educational institutions
• You have experience in product strategy, roadmap planning, and execution
• You are a clear communicator who has experience breaking down complex topics into understandable chunks to get collaborators onto the same page
• You love data, creating metrics, establishing goals with a Data team, and prioritizing your roadmap accordingly 
• You can leverage your strong analytical skills to dig into data and identify the opportunities that drive the largest impact
• You know how to collaborate cross-functionally and take ownership of decision-making for your product
• You understand customer needs and how to partner with data, research, and design to quantify and qualify your ideas

Base Compensation: $125,000 - $140,000. Total compensation for this role also incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience.