Newsela - Manager, Assessment Content (Remote, US)

• Strategy and roadmap • Content strategy. Own the assessment content strategy and roadmap in partnership with the Director, Assessment and Analytics Portfolio and the A&A Product Manager. • Content strategy. • Roadmap execution. Drive execution of the assessment content roadmap; translate quarterly production plans into team assignments, milestones, and vendor scopes. • Roadmap execution. • Content coverage. Ensure content gaps are identified and closed across all subject areas, including academic content areas (ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) and non-academic content areas (Social Skills, School Climate); prioritize across domains based on roadmap and customer needs. • Content coverage. • Standards stewardship. Monitor state and national standard changes across all content domains; ensure Content Leads are maintaining current mappings and escalate cross-domain risks proactively. • Standards stewardship. • Team leadership • Lead the assessment content team. Manage Assessment Content Designers and Content Contributors — set direction, coach for growth, run regular 1:1s and performance reviews, and develop the bench. • Lead the assessment content team. • Production management. Scope, plan, and manage large-scale projects with Content Designers, freelance contributors, and third-party vendors to meet aggressive production targets. • Production management. • Quality framework. Own the contributor and vendor quality framework across all content domains; conduct calibration sessions and performance reviews directly where no Content Lead is in place. • Quality framework. • Operational excellence • Process and tooling. Drive operational excellence by creating clear, repeatable processes and championing the tooling needs of the team. • Process and tooling. • Consistency across teams. Unify content processes and ensure consistency with other Newsela assessment designers and teams (e.g., editorial style, metadata tagging, accessibility standards). • Consistency across teams. • Cross-functional partnership • AI for content generation. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to train AI models for content generation and to evaluate AI-assisted authoring tools and outputs. • AI for content generation. • Cross-functional collaboration. Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Customer-facing teams as needed on content tooling, customer questions, and go-to-market readiness. • Cross-functional collaboration. • Other duties as assigned. • 8+ years of experience in assessment content development at commercial scale (EdTech company, testing vendor, or educational publisher), with at least 2+ years in a people-management role. • Demonstrated success leading teams that include senior individual contributors — coaching, calibrating, and developing item writers and content leads. • Multi-subject standards fluency: command of CCSS, NGSS, and state-specific frameworks across multiple K–12 content areas, with the ability to set quality and alignment expectations even outside your strongest subject. • Expert understanding of educational assessment design across formative, common, and summative contexts, including measurement principles and Depth of Knowledge (DOK). • Track record managing freelance contributors and third-party vendors at scale, including building and running a quality framework with calibration and performance review. • Strong project and production management skills — scoping work, building milestones, surfacing risk, and delivering against aggressive timelines. • Demonstrated experience designing repeatable processes and championing tooling that helps a content team scale. • Strong cross-functional partnership skills — comfortable collaborating with Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams. • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between content, product, and engineering audiences.