Specialist, Product Program Management

Pearson; City of Albany (NY); A distancia; USD 85.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Pearson is seeking a Curriculum Product Program Manager to own end-to-end delivery of complex 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.

The role requires strong judgment, communication, and stakeholder management in a distributed, remote-capable environment.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of project or program management experience; curriculum/education tech preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Lead end-to-end curriculum and content-development projects through launch and closeout.
• Define scope, milestones, schedules, dependencies, and success measures with stakeholders.
• Maintain integrated project plans across content creation, QA, reviews, and releases.
• Drive work toward committed dates; identify and manage risks and changes.
• Provide status reporting on progress, milestones, risks, decisions, and needs.
• Coordinate governance, communication, and meeting rhythms across teams and partners.
• Ensure compliance with content, accessibility, and QA processes.
• Lead retrospectives and drive improvements from lessons learned.

Conocimientos

Product planning

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Adaptability

Learning to learn

Artificial intelligence

Organizational skills

Program process monitoring

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Agile methodologies

Dashboards

Collaboration tools

Descripción del empleo

Position Summary

The Curriculum Product Program Manager leads end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives. Working across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, Quality Assurance, and external partners, the PM translates goals into executable plans and drives high-quality delivery aligned with business, learner, and customer needs.

The PM owns project planning and execution from initiation through launch and closeout, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, changes, stakeholder accountability, and project-health visibility. Success requires strong judgment, communication, relationship management, and problem-solving in a dynamic, distributed environment.

Key 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.

• 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.

Core Competencies

Competency

What It Looks Like

Product Planning

Understands product priorities and roadmaps and translates them into actionable project plans, timelines, and dependencies.

Stakeholder Engagement

Builds alignment and shared understanding across internal teams and partners.

Data Analysis

Uses delivery data and stakeholder feedback to flag risks and inform decisions.

Adaptability

Adjusts priorities and approaches as scope, timelines, and conditions change.

Learning to Learn

Seeks out new knowledge and applies lessons learned to improve delivery.

Artificial Intelligence

Uses AI tools to streamline planning, reporting, and documentation.

Organizational Skills

Manages multiple deliverables, timelines, and documentation at once.

Program Process Monitoring

Assesses program processes and recommends practical improvements.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with curriculum, educational content, digital learning products, or comparable content-development programs.

• Experience managing external partners, vendors, or distributed production teams.

• Knowledge of curriculum-development lifecycles, QA, accessibility, academic standards, state approvals, or digital publishing workflows.

• Experience with Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery and with dashboards, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools.

• PMP, CAPM, Scrum, Agile, or comparable project/program management certification.

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.

The full-time salary range for this role is $85,000 – $95,000.

This position is eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program.

Information on benefits can be found here.

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing [e-mail].

Job:

Job Family: PRODUCT

Organization: Virtual Learning

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Remote

Req ID: 26548

#location