Newsela - School Customer Success Manager (Remote, US)
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Responsibilities
• Own a portfolio of 150–300 customers with clear accountability for retention, adoption, and expansion outcomes • Proactively engage customers through calls, meetings, and scaled campaigns to drive value and momentum • Monitor health signals, usage data, and renewal indicators to prioritize the highest-impact actions • Lead renewal strategy and execution, reducing risk and securing long-term partnerships • Identify and drive expansion opportunities in partnership with Sales • Run efficient, scalable motions (segmentation, automation, 1:many engagement) to maximize reach and impact • Conduct discovery to understand goals, align on outcomes, and position Newsela as a strategic partner • Solve root causes of customer challenges rather than addressing surface-level symptoms • Maintain accurate forecasting, planning, and execution tracking in our systems • Leverage core tools (ex. Salesforce, Gainsight, Gong, Salesloft) to manage your book of business with consistency, operational rigor, and clear process adherence • Continuously seek feedback and improve your approach to raise the bar on performance and outcomes • 2+ years of experience managing a large or high-volume portfolio of accounts • Proven success owning renewals, retention, or expansion targets • Comfortable making frequent proactive calls and running many customer conversations weekly • Strong prioritization skills and ability to manage 150–300 accounts effectively • Data-driven and outcomes-focused; you measure success and adjust quickly • Experience with scalable or tech-touch customer motions • Direct, clear communicator who builds trust quickly • Naturally takes ownership and follows through on commitments • Proactively seeks feedback and continuously improves • Skilled at diagnosing root causes and solving problems independently • Track record of meeting or exceeding goals/OKRs • Experience with Gong, Salesloft, Salesforce, or similar tools is a plus • Background in education is a plus but not required
Benefits
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. • Health & Wellness: • Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs! • Work From Home: • Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! • Supporting ALL Families: • Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security. • Financial Wellbeing: • Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st). • Time Off: • 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. • Professional Development: • 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. • Make A Difference: • Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose. • Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s individual skills, qualifications, and experience. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This role will also will also be eligible for variable compensation. • On-Target Earnings (OTE) Range • $72,500—$87,500 USD
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