Curriculum Product Program Manager - Remote

Pearson; Columbus (OH); 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 curriculum and content-development initiatives. Work across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery that meets learner and customer needs.

The PM owns planning and execution from initiation through launch, managing scope, milestones, risks, and stakeholder accountability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of project or program management experience in a business environment; curriculum/education tech or related field preferred.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Strong planning, risk/change management, facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, establish accountability, and drive teams toward milestones.
• Experience with distributed teams and modern PM/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 priorities and timelines as conditions change.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, and change impacts.
• Lead mitigation and problem-solving; provide context, impact, options, and recommended path.
• Maintain decision and change records and ensure understanding of 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.
• Create clear accountability for decisions and actions while building trusted relationships.
• Maintain accessible, current documentation and a single source of truth.
• Coordinate curriculum deliverables, reviews, feedback, approvals, and dependencies across teams and partners.
• Manage partner performance against scope, schedule, quality expectations, and delivery projections; drive recovery plans when needed.
• Ensure work follows content, accessibility, academic integrity, review, and QA processes.
• Drive QA findings and remediation through closure and verify delivery readiness.
• Lead retrospectives and convert lessons learned into improvements.
• Identify recurring delivery/process issues and recommend scalable solutions.
• Use PM practices, dashboards, automation, collaboration tools, and responsible AI to improve visibility.

Skills

Project planning & management

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Adaptability

Communication

Problem solving

Governance & reporting

AI-assisted tooling

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Project-management tools

Collaboration tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of curriculum and content-development initiatives. Work across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery that meets learner and customer needs.

The PM owns planning and execution from initiation through launch, managing scope, milestones, risks, and stakeholder accountability.