Remote Curriculum Product Program Manager

Pearson; Lansing (MI); 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 curriculum and content-development initiatives. You will work across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery aligned with learner needs.

You will own planning from initiation to launch, manage risks, and ensure scope, milestones, and stakeholder accountability.

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.

Skills

Product Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analysis

Adaptability

Learning to Learn

Artificial Intelligence

Organizational Skills

Program Process Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to lead end-to-end curriculum and content-development initiatives. You will work across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, QA, and external partners to translate goals into executable plans and drive high-quality delivery aligned with learner needs.

You will own planning from initiation to launch, manage risks, and ensure scope, milestones, and stakeholder accountability.