Curriculum Product Program Lead

Pearson; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Remote work

Benefits information

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives. You will work across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery aligned with learner needs.

You will own project planning from initiation to launch, manage scope, milestones, risks, changes, and stakeholder accountability, and maintain governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 3+ years of project or program management experience in a business environment; experience in curriculum, education technology, digital products, publishing, or a related field is preferred.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Strong planning, risk and change management, facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, establish accountability, and drive teams toward committed milestones.
• Experience working with distributed teams and modern project-management and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple curriculum and content-development projects from initiation through launch and closeout.
• Define scope, outcomes, deliverables, milestones, schedules, dependencies, roles, and measures of success with stakeholders.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans across content creation, reviews, approvals, QA, remediation, and release readiness.
• Drive work toward committed dates, negotiating realistic priorities and timelines as conditions change.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, and change impacts.
• Lead mitigation and problem-solving; accelerate with clear context, impact, options, and a recommended path forward.
• Maintain decision and change records and ensure stakeholders understand approved changes and downstream effects.
• Establish effective governance, communication, and meeting rhythms for the project and audience.
• Provide concise status reporting on progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and leadership needs.
• Create clear accountability for decisions and actions while building trusted relationships across teams and partners.
• Maintain accessible, current documentation and a consistent source of truth.
• Coordinate curriculum deliverables, reviews, feedback, approvals, and dependencies across internal teams and external partners.
• Manage partner performance against scope, schedule, quality expectations, and delivery projections; drive recovery plans when needed.
• Ensure work follows applicable content, accessibility, academic integrity, review, and quality-assurance processes.
• Drive QA findings and remediation through closure and verify delivery completeness and readiness.
• Lead retrospectives and convert lessons learned into practical improvements.
• Identify recurring delivery or process issues and recommend scalable solutions.
• Use effective PM practices, dashboards, workflow automation, collaboration tools, and responsible AI to improve visibility and efficiency.

Skills

Planning

Risk management

Facilitation

Communication

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives. You will work across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery aligned with learner needs.

You will own project planning from initiation to launch, manage scope, milestones, risks, changes, and stakeholder accountability, and maintain governance