Why You'll Love This Role:

The Assessment Services team at Newsela works with strategic and key accounts supporting customer assessment needs end to end.

The Manager, Assessment Services is a hands-on leadership role where you will lead and coach the Assessment Services team. You’ll partner closely with Customer Service, Sales, Product, Marketing and other functional teams as needed. You’ll be the connective tissue that turns assessment expertise into real customer value.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead implementation & onboarding. Own how Newsela’s assessment products get stood up for customers, including onboarding, configuration and go-live support for strategic and key accounts.
• Deliver ongoing advisory & support. Build a team and a playbook that deepens the assessment relationship between Newsela and key accounts. This may include score interpretation, additional assessment needs, data coaching, and usage reviews that drive renewal-worthy outcomes.
• Manage assessment migration & content services. Oversee assessment migration and content services with clear scoping and quality standards.
• Lead the team. Hire, coach, and develop a team of individual contributors. Set clear expectations, run a healthy operating cadence, and create the conditions for people to do their best work.
• Operationalize and optimize the function. Optimize the intake, prioritization, and capacity model that lets the team scale without sacrificing quality. Document what works and change what doesn’t.
• Partner cross-functionally. Work side-by-side with other functional teams to make sure assessment services is a force multiplier for the broader business.
• Be a voice of the customer. Translate what you see in the field back into product and content priorities. Bring evidence, not anecdotes.

About You:

• • A combination of 10+ years of experience in K-12 EdTech, assessment, and/or customer-facing professional services.
  • 3+ years of people management experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • Deep understanding of formative and/or interim assessments including how they’re built, how they’re used, and how educators actually make decisions from the data.
  • Experience with additional types of assessment beyond formative and/or interim assessments.
  • Experience working directly with district and school leaders, instructional coaches, and assessment coordinators.
  • Strong operational instincts, you’re the person who turns ad hoc work into a repeatable scalable process.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; equally comfortable in a customer conversation and an internal cross-functional working session.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, you are a problem solver.

  Bonus points for

  • Prior experience standing up or scaling a services team in an EdTech or assessment company.
  • Background as a former educator, instructional coach, or district-level assessment leader.
  • Familiarity with psychometric concepts, standards frameworks, or item-writing best practices.
  • Experience working in a product-led organization where services and product partner closely.

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more!
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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