Newsela

Full-stack Engineer

• End-to-End Feature Development: Build and ship new features using Python (Flask) on the backend and React on the frontend.
• Data Visualization: Create engaging, interactive charts and dashboards using Chart.js and other modern visualization libraries.
• UI/UX Implementation: Translate product ideas into polished user interfaces, ensuring a high-quality look and feel across the platform.
• Semantic Layer: Work with Cube (formerly Cube.js) to manage our semantic data layer (we’ll train you on this if you haven't used it!).
• Database Integration: Interface with Postgres (Spanner) and BigQuery to ensure our application has fast, reliable access to student data.
• Growth & Learning: Actively participate in code reviews and collaborate with senior engineers to level up your technical skills and architectural thinking.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Director

• Serve as the strategic leader for the Formative and Newsela supplemental platforms, responsible for optimizing the balance between learning impact, adoption, renewal, and revenue growth.
• Own the Formative and Newsela supplemental product strategy that drives the roadmap, defining and managing the full product lifecycle — from market assessment and roadmap prioritization through launch, maturity, and evolution.
• Monitor product health, usage, NPS, and retention metrics; use data to drive investments and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product analytics and sales operations to review dashboards to make data-driven decisions and participate in monthly business reviews that track product usage, pilot quantity and performance, pipeline, cross-sell attach, and renewal rates.
• Lead the translation of product strategy into actionable product plays that the customer team can incorporate into annual GTM planning, including forecasting and renewal and expansion plays.
• Partner with Finance and GTM to inform annual planning, forecasting, pricing, and packaging decisions.
• Maintain deep knowledge of district instruction and assessment needs, procurement cycles, and policy trends.
• Specifically identify how these trends impact district budget allocation to identify opportunities for differentiation and expansion.
• Build strong relationships with district leaders and educators, state agencies, and academic advisors to validate roadmap direction and product-market fit.
• Define strategic positioning and value propositions for the Formative and Newsela supplemental portfolios.
• Drive a unified "portfolio experience" by identifying integration and cross-sell priorities between Formative and Newsela platforms that reduce platform friction for multi-product districts.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and technical product management to deliver scalable, user-centered experiences that meet district security and interoperability standards.
• Balance innovation with operational rigor — ensuring releases meet quality, accessibility, and performance benchmarks.
• Champion cross-platform solutions that simplify teacher workflows and accelerate time-to-value.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to develop launch plans and enablement materials.

Director – Supplemental & Assessment Portfolio

Sales Development Rep

• As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) you will work across Newsela’s Sales organization to support aggressive growth by researching, prospecting through calls and emails, and qualifying leads in order to build pipeline for Sales Reps
• Your days will be composed of responding to inbound inquiries, proactive cold outreach to potential new customers, and providing online product demonstrations that draw prospects into initial discovery calls and identify key needs that ultimately lead to qualified opportunities for our Sales team

Full Stack Software Engineer

Director – Supplemental & Assessment Portfolio

Sales Development Representative – LATAM