Remote Curriculum Product Program Manager

Pearson; Santa Fe (NM); A distancia; USD 85.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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

The role covers planning through launch and closeout, with emphasis on governance, risk management, and clear stakeholder communication in a distributed environment.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Problem solving

Planning

Agile

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Herramientas

Project management software

Collaboration tools

Agile tools

Descripción del empleo

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

The role covers planning through launch and closeout, with emphasis on governance, risk management, and clear stakeholder communication in a distributed environment.