Manager, Assessment Content (Remote, US)

Newsela

1d • $95,000 - $110,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Manager, Assessment Content to own assessment content strategy, quality, and execution across all subject domains. Reporting to the Director, Assessment and Analytics (A&A) Portfolio, you'll lead a team of Assessment Content Designers and Content Contributors. You'll also be the team's chief operator — building the repeatable processes, tooling expectations, and cross-team consistency that allow assessment content to scale. This is a leadership role: you will not be writing items day to day, but your judgment will shape every item that ships and will set the bar for quality and experimentation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in assessment content development at commercial scale (EdTech company, testing vendor, or educational publisher), with at least 2+ years in a people-management role.
• Demonstrated success leading teams that include senior individual contributors — coaching, calibrating, and developing item writers and content leads.
• Multi-subject standards fluency: command of CCSS, NGSS, and state-specific frameworks across multiple K–12 content areas, with the ability to set quality and alignment expectations even outside your strongest subject.
• Expert understanding of educational assessment design across formative, common, and summative contexts, including measurement principles and Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
• Track record managing freelance contributors and third-party vendors at scale, including building and running a quality framework with calibration and performance review.
• Strong project and production management skills — scoping work, building milestones, surfacing risk, and delivering against aggressive timelines.
• Demonstrated experience designing repeatable processes and championing tooling that helps a content team scale.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills — comfortable collaborating with Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between content, product, and engineering audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience collaborating with Product and Engineering on AI/ML-assisted content generation — including evaluating model outputs, defining guardrails, and informing training data needs.
• Familiarity with content authoring tools or interoperability standards such as QTI
• Classroom teaching experience in one or more K–12 content areas.
• Exposure to item performance and psychometric data, and the ability to translate that data into content revision priorities.
• Experience leading content operations through significant scale or workflow change (e.g., new platform, new authoring model, new vendor strategy).
• Experience working with Pendo, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence), Tableau, and Heap

Responsibilities

• Own the assessment content strategy and roadmap in partnership with the Director, Assessment and Analytics Portfolio and the A&A Product Manager.
• Drive execution of the assessment content roadmap; translate quarterly production plans into team assignments, milestones, and vendor scopes.
• Ensure content gaps are identified and closed across all subject areas, including academic content areas (ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) and non-academic content areas (Social Skills, School Climate); prioritize across domains based on roadmap and customer needs.
• Monitor state and national standard changes across all content domains; ensure Content Leads are maintaining current mappings and escalate cross-domain risks proactively.
• Manage Assessment Content Designers and Content Contributors — set direction, coach for growth, run regular 1:1s and performance reviews, and develop the bench.
• Scope, plan, and manage large-scale projects with Content Designers, freelance contributors, and third-party vendors to meet aggressive production targets.
• Own the contributor and vendor quality framework across all content domains; conduct calibration sessions and performance reviews directly where no Content Lead is in place.
• Drive operational excellence by creating clear, repeatable processes and championing the tooling needs of the team.
• Unify content processes and ensure consistency with other Newsela assessment designers and teams (e.g., editorial style, metadata tagging, accessibility standards).
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to train AI models for content generation and to evaluate AI-assisted authoring tools and outputs.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Customer-facing teams as needed on content tooling, customer questions, and go-to-market readiness.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts.
• Gym reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Free access to the Calm app
• Rocket Lawyer
• Monthly tech stipend to support WFH needs
• Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more
• 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Paid sick time off
• Company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st)
• Annual learning and development allowance to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials
• Incentive stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed