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Join Newsela as an Enterprise Customer Success Manager to impact K-12 education by ensuring clients successfully engage with our solutions throughout their journey. You will manage a portfolio of 20-25 large district accounts and collaborate with various teams to drive product adoption and success.

Responsibilities: Monitor client portfolio health, drive product adoption and renewals, manage customer success planning, conduct business reviews, and collaborate with internal teams to meet client needs.

Skills: 3+ years of enterprise-level Customer Success Management experience, customer retention strategies, data analytics for account health monitoring, and the ability to build strategic client partnerships.

Qualifications: Preferred background in education or familiarity with Gainsight and Salesforce, plus a history of exceeding customer success objectives.

Location: This is a fully remote position with the potential for travel as needed to meet clients.

Compensation: $85000 - $88000 / Annually

The Role: 

• As a member of our Enterprise Customer Success team, you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence how administrators engage with Newsela. 
• You’ll monitor the health of your portfolio and every step of the client life cycle, while working closely with our internal teams to ensure clients are engaging with and getting the most out of Newsela’s solutions.
• You will also manage customers as they go through the Newsela Customer Journey, and will ensure they have the necessary support and resources at each step in the process to create an exceptional experience from the pre-sale team introduction throughout the full lifecycle.
• Your work will directly impact the expansion and adoption of Newsela products in K-12 classrooms nationwide, and will ultimately help bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to students and teachers.
• You will partner closely with members of our Sales, Marketing, and Support teams.

Why you’ll love this role:

• You will manage 20 to 25 enterprise accounts – some of the largest district accounts in the country.
• You’ll leverage data, our tech stack (including Gainsight and Salesforce/SFDC), and customer insights to drive company results in product adoption, renewal, and expansion.
• You’ll also have the opportunity to leverage frameworks for your work while still maintaining autonomy and discretion to personalize your approach to partnership with each district based on their goals and needs.
• You'll drive successful business reviews with clients and manage an assigned portfolio of clients and related OKRs.
• You will own client success planning for your accounts; you'll ask discovery questions, employ active listening skills, and synthesize client goals for successful renewal.
• You will have a direct impact on the expansion and adoption of Newsela products, which will ultimately scale Newsela’s ability to bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 classrooms nationwide.
• You thrive in a role that requires significant autonomy, representing the company in the market, making recommendations that impact strategy and results, and managing priorities independently.
• You’ll have the opportunity to exercise discretion and independent judgment on matters of significance, including evaluating customer needs, structuring tailored solutions, negotiating within established guidelines, and influencing revenue and business outcomes.

Why you’re a great fit: 

• You have 3+ years of enterprise level CSM experience in Educational Technology.
• You have a demonstrated history of hitting and exceeding company OKRs (may include renewal, health scores, product adoptions OKRs, etc).
• You have a history of driving customer retention and forecasting accurately.
• You proactively manage a portfolio of clients and build a strategic plan to maximize results.
• You monitor account health to identify areas of risk and opportunity, and leverage data and insights to drive product and partnership action. 
• You quickly become a product expert, understanding the nuances of your company’s products and acutely aligning them to solve for customer pain points
• You are able to leverage your experience in client success planning, and are able to ask discovery questions, actively listen, and synthesize client goals,ƒ to effectively uncover hidden needs and get to the root of the problem.
• You have a proven history of partnering with the Sales team to achieve revenue goals, and are able to work across teams to galvanize support and ensure clients have the resources they need to get the most out of their partnership.
• You’re excited by opportunities to connect face-to-face — this position involves regular travel to meet with customers and prospects, depending on business needs.
• While not required, a background in education and/or Gainsight and Salesforce (SFDC) experience is a plus. 

Compensation:

• Base salary: $85,000 - $88,000
• On-Target Commission: $27,500
• Total OTE (On-Target Earnings): $112,500 - $115,500

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), and Sabbatical Leave offered at tenure.
• 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.

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