Remote Curriculum Product Program Lead

Pearson; Lincoln (NE); À distance; USD 85 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end curriculum and content-development initiatives. This remote, full-time role collaborates across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and ensure high-quality delivery.

The role requires strong planning, risk management, facilitation, and communication skills, with experience managing distributed teams and complex, multi-stakeholder

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Project management

Planning

Risk management

Communication

Facilitation

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Formation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Outils

Agile tools

Dashboards/automation tools

Description du poste

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end curriculum and content-development initiatives. This remote, full-time role collaborates across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and ensure high-quality delivery.

The role requires strong planning, risk management, facilitation, and communication skills, with experience managing distributed teams and complex, multi-stakeholder