Remote Principal Product Manager - Content Authoring & CMS

Great Minds; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Great Minds... Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS) will lead discovery and execution for content authoring tools, end‑user delivery experiences, and CMS, ensuring scalable, high‑quality K–12 experiences for teachers, students, and admins.

This remote, full‑time role requires hands-on product leadership with a strong systems mindset and the ability to influence across teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience with senior ownership of complex platforms.
• Experience serving multiple user types (authors, teachers, students, admins, internal teams).
• Deep understanding of content authoring tools, CMS platforms, and structured content systems.
• Strong systems thinking—reason about data models, workflows, and downstream impacts.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and lead through collaboration.
• Comfort working hands-on with detailed requirements while maintaining strategic perspective.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve product vision for content authoring tools and delivery.
• Balance usability with structural rigor for downstream delivery, analytics, and interoperability.
• Partner with curriculum and assessment teams to translate instructional intent into scalable capabilities.
• In partnership with leadership, form product strategy for how authored content is delivered to teachers, students, and admins.
• Ensure delivery experiences are performant, accessible, intuitive, and instructionally sound.
• Work closely with Digital Product Design to validate classroom workflows.
• Initiate CMS direction conversations including content models, workflows, permissions, versioning, and publishing; collaborate with Design and Engineering.
• Ensure CMS supports multiple products, grade levels, subjects, delivery contexts, and modalities.
• Partner with Engineering on long-term platform scalability and maintainability.
• Set clear product strategy and success metrics for authoring, delivery, and CMS capabilities.
• Translate complex instructional and operational needs into well-scoped product initiatives.
• Write roadmaps and product requirements when defined.
• Collaborate with Product Design to ground decisions in user needs and evidence.
• Partner with Engineering to balance speed, quality, and technical health.
• Influence roadmap priorities in partnership with Product Management and leadership.
• Act as subject matter expert on content platforms for Great Minds products.
• Identify and reduce friction across the content lifecycle—from creation to classroom use.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

User-centered design

Requirement writing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CMS platforms

Content authoring tools

Data modeling

Job description

Great Minds... Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS) will lead discovery and execution for content authoring tools, end‑user delivery experiences, and CMS, ensuring scalable, high‑quality K–12 experiences for teachers, students, and admins.

This remote, full‑time role requires hands-on product leadership with a strong systems mindset and the ability to influence across teams.