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via Greenhouse posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
The role: As a member of our Finance team, the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will serve as a critical business and strategic partner to the sales and marketing leadership teams to ensure the financial, strategic, and operational objectives for the business are met. You will lead the financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for the sales and marketing... organizations. You’ll design and refine financial and operating The role:

As a member of our Finance team, the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will serve as a critical business and strategic partner to the sales and marketing leadership teams to ensure the financial, strategic, and operational objectives for the business are met. You will lead the financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for the sales and marketing... organizations. You’ll design and refine financial and operating models to help predict future performance, set achievable targets supported by deep analysis, perform scenario analyses, and guide the business on strategic decisions. Reporting to the Vice President of Financial Strategy & Operations, you’ll work closely with sales operations to ensure accurate data and information gathering, perform analysis to uncover risks and opportunities, and support the creation of monthly and quarterly management reporting that delivers critical insights.

Why you’ll love this role:
• You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact on the strategic decision-making and trajectory of the organization and dive deep into analytics critical to our company’s success
• You will be a critical business partner that is relied upon to support our sales & marketing teams success.
• You will be part of a growing company in the Ed-Tech space with plenty of room for career growth.
• You will have significant exposure to the GTM leadership team, as well as Newsela’s Executive leadership
• You’ll be a member of Finance’s leadership team and help to shape the culture of the team and our ways of working.
• Your work will help ensure the growth of a business that is transforming the way students learn through accessible, engaging learning content
• You will be measured by your ability to develop driver-based plans grounded in data and analysis, business partnering and strategic thinking, management and leadership, and accuracy and timeliness of deliverables

Why you’re a great fit:
• You bring 8+ years of FP&A related experience, with minimum 5+ years of S&M FP&A experience
• You have experience creating annual plans for a GTM organization from the ground up
• You also have experience in B2B SaaS growth phase companies
• You possess a keen understanding of SaaS metrics and business KPI’s
• You have excellent analytical and communication skills
• You are a team player who wants to add value to the business and possesses excellent leadership skills

Compensation range: $190,000 - $200,000 at the Manager level. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range and title may be adjusted based on actual experience
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via LinkedIn posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
The Role As a member of our Finance team, the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will serve as a critical business and strategic partner to the sales and marketing leadership teams to ensure the financial, strategic, and operational objectives for the business are met. You will lead the financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for the sales and marketing... organizations. You’ll design and refine financial and operating The Role

As a member of our Finance team, the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will serve as a critical business and strategic partner to the sales and marketing leadership teams to ensure the financial, strategic, and operational objectives for the business are met. You will lead the financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for the sales and marketing... organizations. You’ll design and refine financial and operating models to help predict future performance, set achievable targets supported by deep analysis, perform scenario analyses, and guide the business on strategic decisions. Reporting to the Vice President of Financial Strategy & Operations, you’ll work closely with sales operations to ensure accurate data and information gathering, perform analysis to uncover risks and opportunities, and support the creation of monthly and quarterly management reporting that delivers critical insights.

Why You’ll Love This Role
• You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact on the strategic decision-making and trajectory of the organization and dive deep into analytics critical to our company’s success
• You will be a critical business partner that is relied upon to support our sales & marketing teams success.
• You will be part of a growing company in the Ed-Tech space with plenty of room for career growth.
• You will have significant exposure to the GTM leadership team, as well as Newsela’s Executive leadership
• You’ll be a member of Finance’s leadership team and help to shape the culture of the team and our ways of working.
• Your work will help ensure the growth of a business that is transforming the way students learn through accessible, engaging learning content
• You will be measured by your ability to develop driver-based plans grounded in data and analysis, business partnering and strategic thinking, management and leadership, and accuracy and timeliness of deliverables

Why You’re a Great Fit
• You bring 8+ years of FP&A related experience, with minimum 5+ years of S&M FP&A experience
• You have experience creating annual plans for a GTM organization from the ground up
• You also have experience in B2B SaaS growth phase companies
• You possess a keen understanding of SaaS metrics and business KPI’s
• You have excellent analytical and communication skills
• You are a team player who wants to add value to the business and possesses excellent leadership skills

Compensation range: $190,000 - $200,000 at the Manager level. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range and title may be adjusted based on actual experience.

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.

Why You’ll Love Working At Newsela
• Health & Wellness: Access to the world’s leading medical experts for healthcare (pets included!). Discounts and resources to stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.
• Work From Home: Almost all of our roles are fully remote - tech stipend included!
• Supporting ALL Families: Supplemental programs and time off to take care of your family and yourself.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO to recharge, including Sabbatical Leave
• Inclusive Experiences: Robust DEIB curriculum, Identity & Experience Groups (Affinity Groups + Employee Resource Group), Authentic & Transparent conversations with Executive Leadership Teams, and integration of DEIB lens across Talent lifecycle processes.
• Professional Development: Holistic Learning & Development Programs that enable meaningful & inclusive experiences, programs that build future-focused competencies, cohort & community learning sessions that foster a sense of belonging, and individual development plans aligned with your personal and professional aspirations to turn goals into reality.
• 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.

Disclaimer: Please be aware of recruitment phishing scams affecting Newsela and other employers. Newsela does not use third party services for full time hires. Our recruiting emails will come from an @newsela.com email address. You can reach out to jobs@newsela.com if you have concerns about the legitimacy of an email sent by or on behalf of Newsela’s talent acquisition team. Newsela will never ask for financial or banking information from candidates, nor will you be asked for any type of payment as part of consideration for employment with Newsela
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via Greenhouse schedule_type: Full-time
The role: Our Assessment Contributors bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. To achieve this, Assessment Contributors are responsible for... • Production of daily assessments to accompany Newsela articles • Writing, editing and proofreading quizzes The role:

Our Assessment Contributors bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. To achieve this, Assessment Contributors are responsible for...
• Production of daily assessments to accompany Newsela articles
• Writing, editing and proofreading quizzes for daily articles and for content specific articles, including ELA, Social Studies, Science as well as Spanish-translated content and videos
• Occasionally responsible for tagging standards, reading skills and other knowledge areas within Newsela content and assessments

Why you're a great fit:
• Experience creating and designing assessments using best practices, particularly for formative assessments
• Strong professional writing experience, particularly for Curriculum Writing, Design & Instruction
• Strong understanding of what makes a valid English Assessment (and Spanish, for Spanish assessments)
• Ability to write quiz questions for students 2nd-12th grade with a strong understanding of Depth of Knowledge areas, rigor and differentiation
• Knowledge of standards and how to design assessments linked to standards/reading skills
• Ability to provide constructive feedback regarding assessment items or design
• Familiarity with formative, activities-driven assessment, tech enhanced & next gen assessment, and Understanding by Design framework
• Experience in education, former teaching experience is a plus but is not required
• Experience working with educational publishers is a plus

This role is compensated on a per-task basis. The benefits listed below apply to full-time employees only
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via Greenhouse schedule_type: Full-time
The role: Content Levelers bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students, and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. Content Levelers are ultimately responsible for adapting reading levels in order to create accessible content for diverse student... readers. To achieve this, content levelers will be The role:

Content Levelers bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students, and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. Content Levelers are ultimately responsible for adapting reading levels in order to create accessible content for diverse student... readers. To achieve this, content levelers will be tasked with the following:
• Adapting the reading level of original articles to create four different versions at lower reading levels, making them accessible to a wider audience
• Remaining conscientious of grade appropriate content, and consider the complexity of vocabulary, sentence structure and sentence length for each level being adapted
• May participate in projects involving the identification and assignment of instructional standards tags within Newsela articles and content standards tagging & content taxonomy projects.
• Reading and writing with close attention, monitoring original articles for any mistakes and inaccuracies

Why you're a great fit:

In order to be successful in this role, our Content Levelers have the following experience and abilities:
• You are a former editor, journalist and/or writer for publishing company, particularly publishers with which Newsela has a partnership
• You have experience in other EdTech, tech or media organizations
• You have experience writing and editing for diverse audiences
• You understand how to think and write empathetically and with a unified voice, including Newsela's Language
• You're familiar with Newsela products
• Your experience and/or education aligns to specific subject matter including one or more of the following:
• Science: field and/or lab research, degree in STEM
• Social Studies/ELA: degree in Literacy Education (MA/M.Ed. or PhD), English and/or Writing, History or Economics
• OR secondary degree experience in education, such as a teacher or teaching assistant in ELA, Social Studies or Science

This role is compensated on a per-task basis. The benefits listed below apply to full-time employees only
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via Greenhouse schedule_type: Full-time
The role: As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) you will work across Newsela’s Sales organization to support aggressive growth by researching, prospecting through calls and emails, and qualifying leads in order to build pipeline for Field Reps and our Customer Success Team. Your days will be composed of responding to inbound inquiries, proactive cold outreach to potential new customers... and providing online product demonstrations that draw The role:

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) you will work across Newsela’s Sales organization to support aggressive growth by researching, prospecting through calls and emails, and qualifying leads in order to build pipeline for Field Reps and our Customer Success Team. Your days will be composed of responding to inbound inquiries, proactive cold outreach to potential new customers... and providing online product demonstrations that draw prospects into initial discovery calls and identify key needs that ultimately lead to qualified opportunities for our Sales team.

Why you'll love this role:
• You will collaborate within the Sales organization to inform strategy and process that enhances sales performance
• You will be part of a team that has incredible support through sales training and enablement, as well as through marketing and operations
• As the initial point of contact with prospects, you’ll represent the future of education, enhancing how districts and teachers engage students, and helping provide approaches that allow educators to design customized learning for different levels of reader
• Your feedback from the market will also help drive future product enhancements

Why you're a great fit:
• You have 1+ year of lead generation or inside sales experience
• Your pipeline generation experience includes engaging prospects through email and phone conversations that lead to qualified meetings
• You leverage your Salesforce.com experience and sales process training to tactfully manage a pipeline to meet and exceed team goals
• You are familiar with sales platforms such as Salesloft, Outreach.io, or Yesware
• You are an excellent communicator who can truly empathize with the challenges our different buyers face
• You’re able to establish clear value propositions that connect buyer/user needs to the product and services we offer
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and use your creativity when partnering with team members to ensure flawless execution

Base compensation range: $60,000 + OTE. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component, incentive stock options, benefits in addition to base salary. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience
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via Greenhouse schedule_type: Full-time
The role: As a member of our growing Finance team, the Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis will lead our Corporate FP&A team and gain valuable exposure to senior leadership. You'll build out and maintain Newsela’s revenue, cash, and long-range financial modeling activities, which will be leveraged to make critical business decisions in support of long-term revenue growth. You will also manage... the overall FP&A close process, enabling the entire The role:

As a member of our growing Finance team, the Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis will lead our Corporate FP&A team and gain valuable exposure to senior leadership. You'll build out and maintain Newsela’s revenue, cash, and long-range financial modeling activities, which will be leveraged to make critical business decisions in support of long-term revenue growth. You will also manage... the overall FP&A close process, enabling the entire FP&A team to gain efficiency and focus time on analytical activities that will help business leaders make more informed decisions. You will directly support the budgeting and forecasting for our G&A function, including Legal, HR, Finance, IT and Executive. Reporting to the Vice President, Financial Strategy & Operations, you will partner closely with Field FP&A, Accounting, Legal, HR, Executive and Financial Systems team members to improve our forecasting, build out and maintain our Adaptive Insights system and improve the reporting and analysis that Newsela delivers to key business partners.

Why you’ll love this role:
• You will gain invaluable experience with visibility into Newsela’s business & operations and have a large impact within a growing Finance organization
• You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact on the strategic decision-making and trajectory of the organization and dive deep into analytics critical to our company’s success
• You will have significant exposure to the Finance leadership team, as well as Newsela’s Executive leadership
• You’ll have the opportunity to help define the coordination and communication across our financial functions
• Your work will help ensure the growth of a business that is transforming the way students learn through accessible, engaging learning content

Why you’re a great fit:
• You have 5+ years of FP&A related experience, with minimum 3+ years of Corporate FP&A experience
• You bring extensive experience in Financial Modeling
• You have demonstrated success in Business Partnership & Communication of Results across audiences, including executive leadership
• You have experience in Management & Investor Reporting, FP&A Close Process management] and Adaptive Insights administration

Base compensation range: $150,000 - $160,000 at the Manager level. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range and title may be adjusted based on actual experience
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via Greenhouse posted_at: 28 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
The Role: As a Mid Market Customer Success Manager you will be a vital member of Newsela’s expanding Customer Success organization. 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 The Role:

As a Mid Market Customer Success Manager you will be a vital member of Newsela’s expanding Customer Success organization. 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. You will partner closely with members of our Sales, Marketing, and Support teams.

Why you’ll love this role:
• 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 will have the opportunity to directly influence how administrators at school districts across the country engage with Newsela
• You will enhance how districts and teachers engage students, and provide time-saving approaches that allow educators to design customized learning for different levels of learners
• You’ll 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 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

Why you’re a great fit:
• You have a demonstrated history of hitting and exceeding company KPIs (including customer retention, health scores, product adoptions, and forecasting accuracy KPIs, etc)
• 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 have a strong ability to build meaningful relationships across your customers and can effectively lead robust conversations that lead towards action and impact
• You are a reliable and thoughtful teammate with an ability to consider multiple viewpoints but also advocate for your convictions
• You are able to leverage your experience in client success planning, and are able to ask discovery questions, actively listen, and synthesize client goals, to effectively uncover hidden needs and get to the root of the problem

Base compensation range: $59,600-$74,500. Total compensation for this role also includes variable, incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience
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via Built In NYC schedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
The role: Our Copy Editors & Proofreaders bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. To achieve this, Copy Editors & Proofreaders are responsible for... • Proofing and editing Newsela content, including production of daily news articles and “evergreen” The role:

Our Copy Editors & Proofreaders bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. To achieve this, Copy Editors & Proofreaders are responsible for...
• Proofing and editing Newsela content, including production of daily news articles and “evergreen” content library
• Ensuring correctness and accuracy, and that all content produced adheres to Newsela’s style and quality guidelines

Who you are:
• You have 5+ years of copy editing & proofreading experience with printed/written media company (i.e., newspaper newsroom experience)
• You have experience writing for textbooks, magazines or websites, with deep understanding of editing and style guide utilization
• You're based on the West Coast or work PST hours to support regional breaking news
• You're able to work well under deadline pressure with speed and accuracy
• You have the ability to read closely, ensuring style, spelling, grammatical, and factual accuracy
• You're able to creatively play with words when writing
• Additional background knowledge of ELA, Social Studies, Science and History disciplines is of particular value

This role is compensated on a per-task basis. The benefits listed below apply to full-time employees only.
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.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:
• Health & Wellness: Access to the world’s leading medical experts for healthcare (pets included!). Discounts and resources to stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.
• Work From Home: Almost all of our roles are fully remote - tech stipend included!
• Supporting ALL Families: Supplemental programs and time off to take care of your family and yourself.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO to recharge, including Sabbatical Leave
• Inclusive Experiences: Robust DEIB curriculum, Identity & Experience Groups (Affinity Groups + Employee Resource Group), Authentic & Transparent conversations with Executive Leadership Teams, and integration of DEIB lens across Talent lifecycle processes.
• Professional Development: Holistic Learning & Development Programs that enable meaningful & inclusive experiences, programs that build future-focused competencies, cohort & community learning sessions that foster a sense of belonging, and individual development plans aligned with your personal and professional aspirations to turn goals into reality.
• 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.
Disclaimer: Please be aware of recruitment phishing scams affecting Newsela and other employers. Newsela does not use third party services for full time hires. Our recruiting emails will come from an @newsela.com email address. You can reach out to jobs@newsela.com if you have concerns about the legitimacy of an email sent by or on behalf of Newsela’s talent acquisition team. Newsela will never ask for financial or banking information from candidates, nor will you be asked for any type of payment as part of consideration for employment with Newsela
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via Greenhouse posted_at: 12 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
The role: The Analyst, Customer Success Operations will support the execution of our Go-to-Market strategy for Customer Success, Professional Services, and Customer Support organizations. As a member of our growing Customer Operations team, you'll report directly to the Senior Manager of Customer Operations. You'll partner with teams across Newsela including Customer Success management, People... and FP&A to maintain the Customer Success field roster The role:

The Analyst, Customer Success Operations will support the execution of our Go-to-Market strategy for Customer Success, Professional Services, and Customer Support organizations. As a member of our growing Customer Operations team, you'll report directly to the Senior Manager of Customer Operations. You'll partner with teams across Newsela including Customer Success management, People... and FP&A to maintain the Customer Success field roster and you will support the design and administration of the Customer Success field team compensation plan.

Why you'll love this role:
• You will be a part of our at-scale CS program development and system implementation
• You will have a direct impact on Newsela's Account Health Scoring rollout
• You will establish and maintain reporting and dashboards that provide insights into team performance, leveraging data-driven insights to help CS reach their objectives (Gainsight and Salesforce)

Why you're a great fit:
• You have 3+ years of experience in an Operations role, including practical experience with reporting/dashboarding and working within CS Software tools (Gainsight preferred)
• You possess a working knowledge of standard SaaS renewal and customer engagement processes
• You have intermediate to advanced analytical skills in MS Excel, Google Sheets, or comparable tools
• You have experience with process design and transitioning from concept to technical specifications in partnership with a system administrator
• You have excellent communication skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional peers and Customer Success leadership

Base compensation range: $100,000 - $120,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range and title may be adjusted based on actual experience
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via Greenhouse schedule_type: Full-time
The Role: As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager you will be a vital member of Newsela’s expanding Customer Success organization. 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 The Role:

As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager you will be a vital member of Newsela’s expanding Customer Success organization. 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. You will partner closely with members of our Sales, Marketing, and Support teams.

Why you’ll love this role:
• 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 will have the opportunity to directly influence how administrators at school districts across the country engage with Newsela
• You will also enhance how districts and teachers engage students, and provide time-saving approaches that allow educators to design customized learning for different levels of learners
• 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 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

Why you’re a great fit:
• You have a demonstrated history of hitting and exceeding company KPIs (including customer retention, health scores, product adoptions, and forecasting accuracy KPIs, etc)
• 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 have a strong ability to build meaningful relationships across your customers and can effectively lead robust conversations that lead towards action and impact
• You are a reliable and thoughtful teammate with an ability to consider multiple viewpoints but also advocate for your convictions
• You are able to leverage your experience in client success planning, and are able to ask discovery questions, actively listen, and synthesize client goals, to effectively uncover hidden needs and get to the root of the problem

Base compensation range: $70,400 - $88,000. Total compensation for this role also includes variable, incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience
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