Senior Product Manager, Supplemental ELA (Remote, US)

Why You'll Love This Role:

You will own the full product lifecycle of the Newsela Supplemental ELA product line, from opportunity evaluation and ideation, through to development, market launch and ongoing updates based on feedback. Ensures that ELA products meet Newsela’s strategic objectives and drive instructional outcomes, while adhering to budget, timeline, and quality constraints.

What You'll Be Doing:

Product Strategy

• Maintain Strong Subject-Specific Market Pulse: Serves as the subject matter expert on market trends, customer needs, competitive offerings, and emerging instructional practices to identify opportunities for product growth, expansion, and differentiation.
• Subject-Specific Strategy: Partners with internal and external stakeholders to inform and execute the Supplemental ELS strategy by identifying market opportunities, evaluating customer needs, assessing risks, and recommending product investments.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform product direction and decisions, gathering information about district and user needs through interviews and customer visits as well as analytics services
• Define success metrics and monitor product performance, including customer adoption, engagement, retention, instructional outcomes, and business impact, using insights to inform future roadmap decisions.

Roadmap

• Prioritize Content and Instructional Design Roadmaps: Collaborates with Content, Product Marketing, and other key stakeholders to prioritize roadmap investments, state standards updates, and new product opportunities, ensuring alignment with customer needs, state adoption timelines, and business objectives.
• Advocate for Platform Features: Partners with content and platform product teams to prioritize and advocate for subject-specific platform improvements.
• Budget & Forecasting: Manages budgets and financial forecasts for subject-specific projects.

Cross-functional Collaboration & Execution

• Collaborate closely with internal instructional exp