Remote Curriculum Product Program Lead

Pearson; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will own project planning from initiation through launch, manage risks and dependencies, and drive high-quality delivery aligned with learner and customer needs. This remote, full-time role offers a competitive salary and annual incentive potential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 3+ years of project or program management experience; experience in curriculum, education tech, digital products, publishing, or related field 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 milestones.
• Experience 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; provide context, impact, 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.
• Create clear accountability for decisions and actions while building trusted relationships across teams and partners.
• Maintain accessible 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 content, accessibility, academic integrity, review, and QA processes.
• Drive QA findings and remediation through closure and delivery readiness.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Planning

Risk management

Communication

Facilitation

Problem solving

Distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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

You will own project planning from initiation through launch, manage risks and dependencies, and drive high-quality delivery aligned with learner and customer needs. This remote, full-time role offers a competitive salary and annual incentive potential.