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The Curricular Solutions Architect will design scalable educational solutions at Newsela, connecting curriculum to instruction using engaging content. This remote role focuses on relationship-building with school districts to meet their unique instructional needs.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include architecting curricular solutions, collaborating with sales teams, identifying market opportunities, and creating business cases for content investments.

Skills: Required skills include teaching experience, instructional design expertise, and a background in educational technology, along with consultative and data-driven problem-solving skills.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Curriculum and Instruction and experience in a sales role as well as designing cross-curricular instructional resources.

Location: This is a remote position targeted at candidates located in the Western USA.

Compensation: $95000 - $100000 / Annually

The role:

As a Curricular Solutions Architect you will be a member of Newsela’s Customer Solutions team, and will articulate bridges that connect Curriculum to Instruction by using Newsela’s engaging, authentic and differentiated content.
You will build relationships with districts in your territory, each with distinct content and instructional needs.
Reporting to the Manager of Customer Solutions, you will also work closely with the field sales team.
You'll apply your pedagogical expertise and consultative skills to architect curricular solutions that delight districts, teachers, and students by enabling engaging and aligned learning to take place in classrooms.
You’ll also champion client needs, requests and untapped opportunities, as identified by Sales, Marketing, Content, and Product leadership teams; this role will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable systems that satisfy market demands by better meeting clients needs in less time.
By habit, you rely on data, research and industry best practices to inform your day to day, and on your creativity and ingenuity to ensure the final output is delightful to our users.

Why you’ll love this role:

You will engineer content opportunities of Newsela’s off-the-shelf products, custom content products, and curriculum design services
You will work with customers to demonstrate how our solutions can empower districts and educators to achieve their desired outcomes.
You will expand Newsela’s Total Addressable Market by identifying strategic regional, state and district content priorities and needs
You will identify and create synergies between existing content solutions and future opportunities
You will identify specific district content opportunities such as RFPs and other key account specific work
You will align content sales strategy with Newsela’s Product strategy
You will create content investment business cases for prospective custom content opportunities
You are excited about working in a pre-sales capacity to support our customers

Why you’re a great fit:

You have 3+ years of teaching experience
You have an Bachelor's degree in Curriculum and Instruction or other related field
You have experience in a sales or sales adjacent role
You have experience designing quality instructional resources, preferably in a cross-curricular capacity across ELA, Social Studies and Science
You have experience identifying instructional needs and building consensus on the just-right solution with multiple stakeholders
Candidates in MT or PT are preferred.
Preference for candidates with a background in educational technology

Compensation:

Base salary: $95,000 - $100,000

On-target commission (OTC): $20,000

On-target earnings (OTE): $115,000 - $120,000

Total compensation for this role also incentive stock options and benefits.

About Newsela:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.

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