Growth Marketing Specialist

USA (Remote)

$68K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive day-to-day marketing operations across paid media and email, coordinating cross-functional projects and data-driven reporting to scale impact.

  • Own execution across paid media, email, and related channels, including experiments and optimization.
  • Must-have: 1-3 years in digital marketing or coordination with proficiency in Excel/Sheets.
  • Standout: Strong cross-functional collaboration and data storytelling to inform decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute day-to-day tasks across paid media platforms, email marketing systems, and other channels, launching creative variations, updating targeting, and helping scale what's working
  • Coordinate across product, engineering, finance, and other teams to keep projects moving, tracking tasks, following up on dependencies, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
  • Pull data from multiple sources to keep dashboards and reports current, and document experiments, results, and learnings so the team can move fast without losing institutional knowledge
  • Support marketing operations including email marketing execution, influencer and creator partnerships, organic social efforts, and presentation development for leadership meetings
  • Build expertise across paid advertising, email marketing, conversion optimization, and analytics, taking on increasing responsibility as you demonstrate results

Requirements

  • 1-3 years of experience in digital marketing, advertising, or a related coordination role (internships count)
  • Familiarity with paid media platforms (Google Ads, Meta, etc.) or email marketing tools
  • Highly proficient in Excel and/or Google Sheets, with the ability to build reports, manipulate data, and use formulas confidently
  • Self-directed learner who proactively develops skills through courses, tutorials, and experimentation
  • Strong attention to detail. You catch errors others miss and take quality seriously.
  • Resourceful problem solver who takes ownership and finds alternative paths when hitting blockers
  • Clear communicator who writes concisely, keeps stakeholders informed, and knows when to escalate

Preferred

  • Bonus: video editing skills, design skills (Canva, Figma), basic HTML, experience with email templates, or familiarity with Webflow/WordPress

Benefits

  • 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).
  • 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.
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Newsela

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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.

Founded in 2013
New York, New Mexico, USA
464 employees (85 in marketing)
27% recommend to a friend
40% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33%
Direct
57.6%
Referral
8.9%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~464

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
71 (15% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$172.2M
Last Raise
$100M
Series D, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2021
    Series D • $100M
  • Mar 2019
    Series C • $50M
  • Feb 2017
    Series B

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