What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Newsela?
The Role:
The Project Manager will be responsible for the scoping, planning, and execution of various cross-functional team projects within established Product cycles. You’ll be driving work to meet our key Product deliverables that will ultimately influence greater product engagement and adoption in schools. Your work will include forecasting resources to meet project needs, owning communications to critical project stakeholders, and removing blockers to maintain forward momentum for projects while keeping the team motivated. You’ll help ensure projects are on time and within resource constraints, as well as act as the key point of contact between senior leaders, accountable project leads, and other stakeholders across the company. Additionally, you’ll partner with our other project managers to develop systems and processes to scale our project management work, with a goal of improving efficiencies, standardization of projects and optimization of our work.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
We are committed to providing accessible, engaging learning content to our tens of millions of users nationwide. Your work will directly impact Newsela’s ability to build and deliver solutions that help shape the future of education. Reporting to the Director of Project Management, you’ll be an invaluable resource across teams, working with a wide variety of stakeholders within the organization. As part of our growing Project Management function, you’ll help shape and define scalable processes, establish cross-functional partnerships, and deliver projects on scope, on budget and on time. You’ll also have the opportunity to grow your project management skills at a company that is as invested in your development as you are.
Why We’ll Love You:
Your 3 years of experience leading projects have given you robust knowledge of time management, project coordination, and prioritization strategies that have enabled you to successfully execute projects on time and within scope. You are a detail-oriented, proactive planner who can seamlessly navigate complex problems, as well as scope and build a comprehensive project plan. You have a bank of proven project management processes and have used them to effectively influence technical and non-technical teams to keep projects on track. You’re an effective communicator who always seeks input from key stakeholders to drive alignment and deep understanding of the project at hand, while providing transparency and key information to all teammates from engineers to product managers.
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.
