Product Program Management Specialist
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Pearson curriculum program manager delivering complex educational content and product initiatives. Coordinating cross-functional teams, partners, QA, and launch readiness.
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 priorities and timelines as conditions change
- Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, and change impacts
- Lead mitigation and problem-solving; escalate with context, impact, options, and recommended paths forward
- Maintain decision and change records and communicate approved changes and downstream effects
- Establish project governance, communication, and meeting rhythms
- Provide status reporting on progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and leadership needs
- Build accountability and trusted relationships across internal teams and external partners
- Maintain current project documentation and a consistent source of truth
- Coordinate curriculum deliverables, reviews, feedback, approvals, and dependencies
- Manage partner performance against scope, schedule, quality expectations, and delivery projections
- Ensure compliance with 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 improvements
- Identify recurring delivery or process issues and recommend scalable solutions
- Use project-management practices, dashboards, workflow automation, collaboration tools, and responsible AI to improve visibility and efficiency
Requirements:
- 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 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
- Experience with curriculum, educational content, digital learning products, or comparable content-development programs preferred
- Experience managing external partners, vendors, or distributed production teams preferred
- Knowledge of curriculum-development lifecycles, QA, accessibility, academic standards, state approvals, or digital publishing workflows preferred
- Experience with Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery and with dashboards, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools preferred
- PMP, CAPM, Scrum, Agile, or comparable project/program management certification preferred
Benefits:
- Eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program
- Benefits information provided by Pearson
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