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# Senior Recruiter at Newsela

- **Company:** Newsela
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $105k–$115k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela/jobs/8164627

## Job description

The role:

Newsela is looking for a Senior Recruiter (GTM) to join our People team, reporting directly to the Manager, Talent Acquisition. In this role, you will serve as a strategic talent partner to revenue and growth leadership, driving the strategy and execution required to scale our Go-to-Market (GTM) organization. You will own the full recruitment lifecycle for revenue-generating roles, champion candidate experience, and leverage GTM market data to build high-performing, diverse sales, marketing, and customer success teams.

Why you’ll love this role:

- GTM Strategic Partnership: Partner with GTM leaders (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) to understand revenue goals, align on headcount roadmaps, and execute tailored hiring plans.
- Full-Cycle Execution: Own the end-to-end process for a portfolio of GTM requisitions, from kickoff calls and active outbound sourcing through complex offer negotiations and closing.
- Pipeline & Sourcing: Proactively source and engage top-tier, passive revenue talent across competitive EdTech landscape using LinkedIn Recruiter and innovative network outreach.
- Data-Driven Advisory: Collaborate with hiring managers using real-time market trends, compensation benchmarks, and pipeline analytics to streamline time-to-hire and increase offer acceptance rates.
- Candidate Experience & Brand: Deliver a high-touch, memorable candidate journey that highlights Newsela’s mission, remote culture, and market impact.

Why you’re a great fit:

- 5+ years of full-cycle corporate recruiting experience for an EdTech or SaaS company, with a focus on Go-to-Market hiring.
- Proven track record of successfully hiring for roles in Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps.
- Strong understanding of the GTM function and the key metrics for success.
- We need a proactive and results-oriented professional who can thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert level project management skills
- Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruiting tools.
- A passion for building diverse and high-performing teams.

Bonus Points:

- Experience with using recruitment tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, etc.
- Experience with global hiring in locations such as Latin America and the Philippines.

Compensation:

- Base compensation range: $100,000 - $115,000 per year. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

- 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.
- Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
- Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more!
- Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
- Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
- 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.
- 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.

About Newsela:

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.

Base Compensation Range $104,900—$115,000 USD

## About Newsela

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Newsela is an education technology company that provides a content and assessment platform with differentiated, standards-aligned instructional resources for K-12 schools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Education technology (E-Learning Providers)
- **Target customers**: B2B (U.S. K-12 school districts); teachers and administrators are primary users; also serves individual teachers (freemium model).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Meaningful classroom learning for every student."

## Products & Services
- **[Newsela ELA](https://newsela.com/)**: Differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts, novel studies, and curriculum complements to support knowledge-rich literacy instruction. (SaaS)
- **[Newsela Social Studies](https://newsela.com/)**: Primary sources, biographies, current events, and interactive multimedia to support critical thinking and diverse perspectives. (SaaS)
- **[Newsela Science](https://newsela.com/)**: Engaging videos, standards-aligned texts, lessons, and activities to support real-world science connections. (SaaS)
- **[Formative by Newsela](https://newsela.com/)**: A real-time instruction and assessment platform that unifies district assessments and delivers standards-aligned insights for administrators and teachers. (SaaS, acquired in 2023)
- **[Newsela Writing / Luna AI](https://newsela.com/)**: AI-powered, rubric-aligned writing feedback delivered in real time to support writing practice across the curriculum. (AI tool)
- **Schoolytics** (acquired): Student data unification platform providing role-based dashboards and actionable insights. (SaaS)
- **Generation Genius** (acquired February 2025): Science and math video content for K-8.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). Total funding of $172.2M as of 2021.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $50M (source: LinkedIn company data). Over 25 million users (students and teachers) and used in ~90% of U.S. K-12 schools.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: TCV (lead Series C & D), Franklin Templeton (lead Series D), Kleiner Perkins (lead Series B), Owl Ventures (lead Series A), NewSchools Venture Fund & Kapor Capital (Seed).
- **Growth Signals**: 12.6% year-over-year headcount growth (to 386 employees); continuous product expansion via acquisitions (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius); launch of Luna AI; 2025 CODiE Awards (Winner for Newsela Writing, Finalist for ELA and Social Studies).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Differentiated content at scale**: Library of 18,000+ texts and videos from 175+ content providers, available at five reading levels – enabling personalized learning without compromising standards alignment.
- **Entrenched in U.S. schools**: 90% of K-12 schools use Newsela, creating a strong network effect and switching costs.
- **Comprehensive product suite**: Covers ELA, social studies, science, formative assessment, and data analytics under one roof, reducing tool fragmentation for districts.
- **AI-powered tools**: Luna AI provides real-time writing feedback, saving teachers time while differentiating instruction.
- **Research-backed efficacy**: ESSA Tier II studies show product accelerates learning in ELA and social studies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion of AI capabilities**: Deeper integration of Luna AI across the product portfolio to automate lesson planning, activity design, and text differentiation.
- **Product integration**: Unifying acquired companies (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius) into a seamless platform for districts.
- **Market penetration**: Growing international presence (currently operating in 13 countries) and deepening relationships with large school districts.
- **Supplemental curriculum leadership**: Positioning Newsela as the go-to source for engaging, standards-aligned supplemental materials across core subjects.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote**: Newsela is a fully remote team across the United States with some roles in Latin America.
- **Culture and mission**: Emphasis on work that makes a tangible impact on K-12 education – "inspire a generation of learners, support and empower teachers."
- **Benefits**: Unlimited time off, generous family leave (maternity, paternity, adoption), wellness resources (mind & body discounts, access to world-class medical experts including pet coverage), and learning stipends.
- **Engineering/Product culture**: Open roles for data engineers, analytics engineers, site reliability engineers, and product managers. The company values creative, passionate employees "with quick minds and warm hearts."
- **Growth opportunities**: 30 active job postings across sales, customer success, product, and technology; 12.6% annual headcount growth indicates a scaling organization.

## Sources
1. [newsela.com/careers](https://newsela.com/careers)
2. [newsela.com/company](https://newsela.com/company)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela)
4. [linkedin.com/company/newsela](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsela)
5. [newsela.com](https://newsela.com/)

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