Curriculum Product Program Lead

Pearson; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners.

The PM owns planning and execution from initiation through launch and closeout, managing scope, milestones, risks, and changes for high-quality outcomes in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of project or program management experience; curriculum/ed tech/digital publishing preferred.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong planning, risk/change management, facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive teams toward milestones.

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, QA, remediation, and release readiness.
• Drive work toward committed dates, negotiating priorities and timelines as conditions change.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, and change impacts.
• Lead mitigation and problem-solving; provide clear context, options, and a recommended path forward.
• Maintain decision and change records and ensure stakeholders understand approved changes and downstream effects.
• Establish governance, communication, and meeting rhythms for the project and audience.
• Provide concise status reporting on progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and leadership needs.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Adaptability

Learning to learn

Organizational skills

Program process monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners.

The PM owns planning and execution from initiation through launch and closeout, managing scope, milestones, risks, and changes for high-quality outcomes in a distributed environment.