Director Content + Production Operations (US Only)

Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid / Remote work schedule

401k

PTO

Health & Wellness Days

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Continuing education and training

Job summary

Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. seeks a Director of Content & Production Operations to lead the team turning our roadmap into high-quality, localized training.

This role oversees the LCMS content model, variant rules, and end-to-end production for digital, print, and LMS outputs, with a focus on scalability and quality. You will shepherd a cross-functional team including developers, a multimedia specialist, an LMS administrator, and a compliance lead, aligning product roadmaps with production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information science, technical communication, instructional technology, or related field.
• 10+ years in content, production, or delivery operations, including 5+ years leading teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of a structured or component-based content model.
• Production LCMS/CCMS experience, including partnering with a vendor on implementation.
• Production or delivery operations leadership in content, agency, media, or services.
• Third-party vendor management, including holding partners to commitments.
• Capacity planning and forecasting under variable demand.
• Ability to explain architecture decisions to executives in terms of cost, schedule, and risk.
• Working knowledge of SCORM, WCAG AA, and multi-output publishing (print, PDF, LMS).

Responsibilities

• Design and own CPI's content model in the LCMS, including component structure, metadata, taxonomy, and reuse and variant rules.
• Lead the LCMS partnership: implementation direction, roadmap influence, and escalation.
• Lead and develop a team of eLearning developers, a senior multimedia specialist, an LMS administrator, and a Learning Standards & Compliance Lead to build CPI's training content.
• Translate the product roadmap into a production plan with sequences and release dates.
• Partner with training product teams, product management, and program managers on intake, scope, and release timing.
• Run intake and specification gating so work enters production ready to build.
• Partner with program manager to run production in agile methodologies, measure cycle time and rework.
• Enforce instructional quality, brand, accessibility, and compliance standards at the point of authoring.
• Own the production capacity model, forecasting, and cost per output unit; provide capacity to Custom Solutions at a published internal rate.
• Manage third-party production partners on scope and SLAs.
• Lead foundational content model, templates, and workflows in year one while scaling the team.
• Perform other position-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Strategic planning

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in information science / technical communication / instructional technology

10+ years in content, production, or delivery operations

5+ years leading teams

Tools

LCMS/CCMS

Xyleme

XML-based authoring

SCORM

Job description

Our Story:

Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. (CPI) is the worldwide leader in evidencebased deescalation and crisis prevention training and dementia care services. Our programs teach professionals the skills to recognize, prevent, and respond to crises in the workplace. Since 1980, we've helped train more than 17 million people across serviceoriented industries including education, health care, behavioral health, longterm care, human services, security, corporate, and retail.

At CPI, we are dedicated to changing behaviors and reducing conflict for the Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security of everyone. We believe empathy, meaningful connections, personal safety, and security are the antidotes to fear and anxiety. This philosophy is central to everything we do and traces back to our beginning.

As a member of the team, you can expect to:

• Make a difference through your work - You'll be proud to tell your family and friends what you do.
• Gain significant career experience within a fastgrowing organization - From entrylevel roles to executive leadership.
• Feel fulfilled and have fun - We work hard but make time to build meaningful relationships and celebrate wins.

The Role:

The Director of Content & Production Operations leads the team and systems that turn CPI's product roadmap into high-quality training that is localized, tailorable, and fast to market, as CPI shifts to digital-first, print-supported learning materials. This player-coach owns both the LCMS content model that enables reuse and variants and the production operation that builds and ships every format from a single source.

What You Get to Do Every Day:

• Design and own CPI's content model in the LCMS, including component structure, metadata, taxonomy, and reuse and variant rules. One source should be tailorable by industry and audience, localizable by language, and publishable to eLearning, digital, and print outputs.
• Lead the LCMS partnership: implementation direction, roadmap influence, and escalation.
• Lead and develop a team of eLearning developers, a senior multimedia specialist, an LMS administrator, and a Learning Standards & Compliance Lead to build CPI's training content.
• Translate the product roadmap into a production plan. Sequence builds and updates against committed release dates, and flag capacity risk early.
• Partner with training product teams, product management, and program managers on intake, scope, and release timing. Partner with software product teams on LCMS, authoring, and platform requirements.
• Run intake and specification gating so work enters production ready to build, and send back work that isn't.
• Partner with program manager to run production in agile methodologies. Measure cycle time and rework, and shorten time to market without lowering quality.
• Enforce instructional quality, brand, accessibility, and compliance standards at the point of authoring rather than in end‑of‑line review.
• Own the production capacity model, forecasting, and cost per output unit. Provide capacity to Custom Solutions at a published internal rate.
• Manage third‑party production partners on scope, service levels, and unit economics.
• Lead the foundational content model, templates, and workflows in year one while scaling the team to own them.
• Perform other position‑related duties as assigned.

What You Won't Own:

• What CPI trains (learning objectives, curriculum, instructional design). You will heavily partner with Product Management.
• The visual design system, which is owned by UX Design & Research.
• Engineering and platform infrastructure, which sit in the Technology organization.

You Need to Have:

• Bachelor's degree in information science, technical communication, instructional technology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered.
• 10+ years in content, production, or delivery operations, including 5+ years leading teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of a structured or component‑based content model.
• Production LCMS/CCMS experience, including partnering with a vendor on implementation.
• Production or delivery operations leadership in content, agency, media, or services.
• Third‑party vendor management, including holding partners to commitments.
• Capacity planning and forecasting under variable demand.
• Comfort declining incomplete requests from senior stakeholders.
• Judgment to iterate on validation but not on the foundation. The first version of a content model must be substantially right.
• Ability to explain architecture decisions to executives in terms of cost, schedule, and risk.
• Working knowledge of SCORM, WCAG AA, and multi-output publishing (print, PDF, LMS).

We'd Love to See:

• Localization at the structural level.
• Standing up a capability that did not previously exist.
• Xyleme or a comparable XML‑based authoring environment.
• Training, certification, or regulated‑content environments.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive compensation package
• Comprehensive benefits package
• 401k
• PTO
• Health & Wellness Days
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Continuing education and training
• Hybrid / Remote work schedule
• Paid Parental Leave

Crisis Prevention Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexualorientation, gender, gender identity, or expression (including against any individual that is transitioning, hastransitioned, or is perceived to be transitioning), marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical ormental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, orany other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Company will consider foremployment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federalrequirements. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement,promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment duringemployment.