
Customer Success Specialist
Newsela
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $68,000 - $70,000 per year
Job Level
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About the role
- Drive teacher activation, adoption, and ongoing engagement with Newsela products through targeted plays and outreach.
- Partner with CSMs to identify usage gaps and execute strategies that move teachers from rostered → active → engaged.
- Support execution of adoption campaigns, events, and initiatives that increase meaningful product use.
- Support curriculum alignment work for schools and districts, connecting Newsela content and products to instructional goals, standards, and pacing.
- Develop and deliver curriculum-aligned resources, mappings, or guidance that help educators see immediate classroom relevance.
- Partner with internal teams to scale curriculum alignment efforts across priority accounts.
- Provide temporary customer coverage during CSM leave or capacity gaps, ensuring continuity and momentum for customers.
- Support priority accounts with proactive engagement tied to adoption, usage, and instructional impact.
- Pull, analyze, and synthesize customer data from Tableau, Salesforce, Gainsight, and other internal tools.
- Surface actionable insights for CSMs that inform outreach, prioritization, and customer conversations.
- Track progress against adoption and engagement goals and recommend adjustments based on data.
- Support renewal motions through targeted adoption efforts that strengthen value realization.
- Assist districts during decentralization efforts for renewals, ensuring a seamless process for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist with preparation of complex renewal materials or quotes as needed, ensuring accuracy and alignment.
- Create efficiencies for the CSM team by owning repeatable processes, playbooks, and executional work.
- Maintain clean, accurate data in Salesforce and Gainsight to support forecasting, reporting, and customer health.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of CS workflows and specialist programs.
Requirements
- 1+ years of professional experience in customer success, education, curriculum, operations, or a related role.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to partner effectively across teams.
- Demonstrated ownership and solutions-oriented mindset: you take accountability for outcomes, not just tasks, and proactively identify paths forward.
- Adaptive and flexible in a fast-changing environment, adjusting quickly as priorities evolve.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities with attention to detail and follow-through.
- Experience working with data and CRM tools (e.g., Tableau, Salesforce, Gainsight).
- Background as a former educator or experience supporting K–12 customers strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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