Curriculum Program Manager — Remote Delivery Leader

Pearson; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

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 collaborate across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery aligned with business needs.

The PM owns planning from initiation to launch, managing scope, milestones, risks, and stakeholder accountability, while maintaining governance and

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

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Adaptability

Learning to learn

Artificial intelligence

Organizational skills

Program process monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Modern PM tools

Dashboards

Workflow automation

AI-enabled tools

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 collaborate across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery aligned with business needs.

The PM owns planning from initiation to launch, managing scope, milestones, risks, and stakeholder accountability, while maintaining governance and