The Role:
The Senior Product Manager role will own key features that allow teachers and students to engage with Newsela content, including Power Words, Annotations, and various instructional activities like quizzes and write prompts. You will leverage your deep understanding of our users and their needs, in-product behavioral data and insights to effectively prioritize and execute against the roadmap to drive frequency of use and high quality engagement. You will partner with key stakeholders across Content, Customer, Marketing, Product Design and Product Analytics to build solutions that meet the needs of our users. This role will partner closely with the Director, Product Management to develop a cohesive roadmap that aligns with the overall business and product strategy, delivering user value and business impact. You will be deeply involved in the entire product development life cycle, from product discovery to definition and delivery. You will also play a critical role in optimizing key features to achieve our engagement goals.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
This role sits at the critical intersection of enabling users to be served up the best content Newsela has to offer. The strategy and vision you help transform into reality will directly impact the learning and teaching experience of over 37 million students and 2.5 million teachers across the U.S. Your work will enable teachers and students nationwide to discover and use the most relevant, engaging content in a timely, efficient manner, which will ultimately help drive higher engagement with Newsela’s learning content and better learning outcomes. 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 content product managers who define our portfolio learning, and will partner across the organization with Go-To-Market and Technology teams to influence strategy and execution of work.
Why We’ll Love You:
You are a creative, methodical product manager with more than 5+ years 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 product goals, particularly in content-heavy experiences. You have a deep understanding of content ecosystems and are excited by creating experiences that enhance the user’s experience with content. You also understand technology well enough to break down work into achievable 2-week intervals, and know how to prioritize work to achieve value as quickly as possible while optimizing your team for value delivery. You’re a flexible, effective communicator, able to fluidly translate product needs and insights across technical, operational, design, and leadership audiences.
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.
