Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product vision for tools used to author curriculum and assessment content.
• Balance usability for authors with structural rigor required for downstream delivery, analytics, and interoperability.
• Partner with curriculum and assessment teams to translate instructional intent into scalable software capabilities.
• In partnership with the Chief Technology Officer, directors, and other leaders, form product strategy for how authored content is delivered to teachers, students, and administrators.
• Ensure delivery experiences are performant, accessible, intuitive, and instructionally sound.
• Work closely with Digital Product Design to validate real classroom and instructional workflows.
• Initiate and sometimes facilitate product direction conversations for the CMS, including content models, workflows, permissions, versioning, and publishing.
• Ensure the CMS supports multiple products, grade levels, subjects, delivery contexts, and modalities.
• Partner with Engineering on long-term platform scalability and maintainability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, with senior level ownership of complex platforms or systems.
• Experience building products that serve multiple user types (authors, teachers, students, admins, internal teams) and not exclusively authors.
• Deep understanding of content authoring tools, CMS platforms, and structured content systems.
• Strong systems thinking—able to 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.