Enablement Specialist, Newsela
$67.8-75k
+ Incentive Stock Options
Online platform for education content
Job no longer available
Online platform for education content
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$67.8-75k
+ Incentive Stock Options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide meaningful classroom learning for every student.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years experience in project coordination, sales enablement, learning & development, and content management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill technical information easily to a variety of audiences
- Strong engagement and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Collaborative, creative, and takes initiative to complete projects and tasks independently
- Highspot, Salesforce (SFDC), Gong experience is a plus
- Experience in enabling sales and customer success organizations is preferred
What the job involves
- As the Enablement Specialist, you’ll support the development, and delivery of programs that equip and empower our Customer Organization
- Working closely with our Enablement Programs manager, Marketing, and team members across the Customer Org, you will provide training of our internal tools and product support to the customer organization
- You will support in facilitating engaging, effective, and measurable learning experiences for the org so that they can leverage the tools and resources available to them
- You will play a key role in our new team member onboarding program and enablement events throughout the year, and in the project planning processes for Go-to-Market events
- Deliver interactive training (courses, live sessions, async resources) to equip customer-facing teams with technical tools and product knowledge
- Build materials for tools (e.g., Tableau, Gong, Salesloft, Gainsight, SFDC) and evolving product features in partnership with Product/Marketing
- Proactively assess learning needs and provide quarterly action plans with clear deliverables
- Keep resources accurate and current; use feedback/data to improve learning effectiveness
- Update and evolve the onboarding program in Highspot to accelerate ramp-up for Customer Org roles
- Continuously adapt programs based on business needs, data, and feedback from leaders and new hires
- Track and report new hire progress, highlighting strengths and opportunities to managers and other stakeholders
- Create and maintain onboarding schedules for all incoming team members
- Collaborate with the Enablement Team to ensure clear governance, structure, and strategy for the Highspot learning platform
- Document clear frameworks for uploading, organizing, and auditing resources
- Ensure resources are accurate, discoverable, and aligned with best practices
- Share regular usage insights, best practices, and updates with users and stakeholders
- Manage relationships with Highspot CSM to optimize platform usage and adoption
- Help coordinate Go-to-Market live events in partnership with Marketing and Customer leaders
- Create project plans, schedules, and workstream documentation
- Provide regular stakeholder updates, increasing cadence ahead of events
- Plan non-product event elements (awards, engagement, logistics, pre/post-work)
- Collaborate across the Enablement team to ensure alignment and strategic impact
Our take
While textbooks have been standard issue in classrooms for centuries, digital instructional materials are now more prevalent. Newsela offers a learning platform that curates and rewrites news articles, historical speeches, and scientific papers to help accelerate learning.
The platform is available in both English and Spanish and includes quizzes, exercises, and writing prompts to help engage students at any level. Millions of teachers and K-12 students use the platform, which has proved extremely popular so far.
In 2021, the company reached unicorn status. Since then, research has shown that Newsela is 70% more effective at promoting reading skills compared to an average summer reading program. This demonstrates the value it brings to the space, and places it well for continued expansion and innovation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $172.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare (pets included)
- Continue your learning - on us!
- Discounts and resources to stay healthy
- Commuter savings (trains/bikes)
- Generous time off for your most important job — maternity, paternity, and adoption
- Unlimited time Off
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dan Cogan-Drew
(Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer)A qualified teacher with extensive and varied experience. Recent roles include Director of Programs at EDUCATION CONNECTION and Director of Digital Learning at Achievement First Public Charter Schools.
Matthew Gross
(Co-Founder & Director)Former CEO of the company. Co-founded and was CEO at Grouper Education. Was also a Board Member at New Classrooms, Executive Director at Regents Research Fund and VP at PENCIL.
Pep Carrera
(CEO)Board Member at Follett Higher Education. Was CEO at Nearpod, President at ProQuest, and President and COO at VitalSource Technologies.
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