Associate Product Manager

Remote

The role: 

Newsela is looking for a passionate and detail-oriented Associate Product Manager (APM) to join our User Management team. This is a career-defining opportunity to work on the very foundation of the Newsela experience—the systems that define who our users are, how they get into our product, and how their data connects across our ecosystem.

You will join a team with a deep commitment to mentorship and growth, reporting directly to a Principal Product Manager who will provide coaching and guidance. Your work will be a unique blend of user-experience (optimizing sign-up flows), technical product management (managing integrations and identity systems), and data strategy. The systems you manage are the bedrock of our organization's data.

Why you’ll love this role:

  • Optimize User Onboarding: Own and continuously improve the user sign-up and account setup flows. Your success will be measured by improving sign-up conversion rates and reducing friction during school and district onboarding (minimizing support requests, rage clicks, and funnel drop-offs).
  • Ensure Data Integrity: Collaborate with our data team members to ensure that our user systems produce clean, accessible, and reliable data that powers analytics and decision-making.
  • Build Foundational Systems: Partner closely with a dedicated engineering team in an agile environment to define requirements and prioritize the backlog for our core user identity, access, and management systems.
  • Empower Internal Teams: Become the product owner for back-office tooling used by our Customer Support and Integrations teams, discovering their pain points and building solutions to make them more efficient and effective.
  • Execute with Precision: Translate product strategy into detailed user stories and requirements, and work hands-on with your engineering team to see them through to launch.

Why you’re a great fit:

  • 1+ years of experience in product management or a related role such as business analyst, product operations, project management, or software engineering.
  • A strong desire to work on technical products; you're excited by the prospect of understanding system architecture, APIs, and complex data flows.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a highly analytical mindset. You know how to break down a complex problem into manageable parts.
  • User Empathy: You can put yourself in the shoes of different users—from a first-time teacher signing up to an internal support agent solving a problem.
  • Strong Communication & Collaboration Skills: You can clearly articulate a vision and work effectively with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to achieve it.
  • A bias for action and a passion for learning and growing in the product management field.
  • Bonus points for:
    • Experience with identity and authentication systems (e.g., SSO, OAuth, Rostering)
    • Familiarity with API-driven products or software integrations
    • Previous experience in the EdTech industry

Base Compensation: $80,000 - $90,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience. 

Create a Job Alert

Interested in building your career at Newsela? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Education

Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

Please use full numbers $00,000 - $000,000

Please confirm what you have a background in: *
Select...
Select...
Select...
What do you have familiarity with? *

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Newsela’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.