Senior Product Manager, Content Discovery

The Role:

As Senior Product Manager, Content Discovery 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. Reporting to the Principal Product Manager, Content Discovery, you will own and manage core functions of the discovery experience and drive impact through iteration in partnership with Engineering, Design, Technology 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 bring joy to the millions of students and teachers that use Newsela. 

Why You’ll Love This

The Content Discovery team is responsible for some of the most important core features on Newsela. As a member of the Content Discovery team, you will have the opportunity to join a key business function at Newsela and directly impact our mission to deliver meaningful classroom learning to every student. We are a customer-obsessed, highly analytical team that cares deeply about helping our teachers facilitate meaningful classroom learning.This is a high trust team that likes to have fun and celebrate our wins with virtual get-togethers and in-person gatherings planned throughout the year.

Why We’ll Love You:

With 4+ years of experience, you are a customer centric Product Manager with a track record of delighting users with impactful product launches. You are familiar with SQL and comfortable using those skills to analyze experiment results and communicate them with the team, executives, and the company. You have excellent analytical sense, and have experience driving product & business decisions that involve quantitative analysis and experimentation. You have a passion and drive for testing and learning at a face paced and are a tactical executor. While not required, experience with search relevance and/or recommendations is preferred. 

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.