Learning Experience Designer, Core

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60k - $70k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Newsela

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Newsela is a fast-growing education technology startup with a single ambitious goal: Meaningful classroom learning for every student. We provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With nearly two million teachers signed up, Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

📋 Description

• Serve as the grade-level lead and subject-matter point of contact for your assigned grade. • Own the resolution of content and alignment issues across workstreams. • Take accountability for ensuring that lessons, texts, and assessments at your grade level form a coherent arc. • Hold final grade-level responsibility for verifying that all materials align to the relevant state ELA standards and frameworks. • Support the development of grade-level scopes and sequences. • Support the development of teacher-facing and student-facing lessons and other materials that model rigorous, scaffolded, standards-aligned instruction. • Draft and refine formative and summative assessment items, rubrics, and performance tasks. • Build embedded scaffolds and differentiation—graphic organizers, sentence frames, leveled vocabulary supports. • Own the review of contributor- and AI-generated lessons, activities, and assessments at your grade. • Support the iterative refinement of AI prompts and specifications that power stages of lesson design and production. • Collaborate closely with senior designers, lesson and assessment writers, ELD specialists, and product and technology teams to integrate feedback.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Education, Curriculum & Instruction, or a related field. • 5+ years of experience in secondary ELA curriculum development, instructional design, or content creation, preferably for an educational technology or publishing company (school- or district-based curriculum development experience also considered). • Strong working knowledge of secondary ELA pedagogy and state standards and frameworks such as CCSS, including reading development, writing instruction, and assessment best practices. • Excellent English writing and editing, with a demonstrated ability to produce polished, standards-aligned instructional content and to give clear, useful feedback to other writers. • A judicious eye for quality and acute attention to detail when reviewing materials, with the ability to make sound, well-reasoned content decisions independently. • A strong ownership mindset—you take responsibility for outcomes at your grade level, follow through on commitments, surface risks early, and hold yourself and others to a high bar. • Comfort and fluency with AI tools, and an interest in using them to accelerate high-quality content development without sacrificing pedagogical rigor. • Strong organizational and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritize in conjunction with business needs.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. • Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. • We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs! • Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! • Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security. • Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st). • 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. • 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.