About the Role

The Director, French Language Program & Curriculum reports to the Vice President, Content & Curriculum. This role drives the vision, strategy, and growth of Nelson's French Language portfolios on Edwin. Core responsibilities include leading a team of internal specialists and external contributors, identifying new product opportunities, setting instructional direction based on French language policy, curriculum, and market needs, and providing editorial leadership for French freelance authors, subject matter experts, and digital asset creators. The role is accountable for portfolio goals, budgets, competitive positioning, market feedback, and efficacy. The Director collaborates across all functions of the business and regularly conducts customer-facing research to inform and validate portfolio decisions. This role will work closely with the Content & Curriculum, Strategy, Classroom Success, Sales, Engineering, Design, and Marketing teams to address customer needs and develop go-to-market content strategies that grow and retain the Edwin customer base.

Key Accountabilities

Customer Insight

• Conduct market research to identify opportunities and define the products, services, and solutions that best serve them.
• Liaise with Content & Curriculum, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to identify key teaching, learning, and assessment trends and challenges that shape Edwin content and grow its user base.

Content Development

• Launch innovative French content, assessment, and features, testing performance and iterating quickly.
• Lead subject-area content conceptualization, assessment, and instructional design by synthesizing market research, Customer Success insights, and customer experience data while balancing customer needs with curriculum outcomes.

Relationship & Process Management/Innovation

• Work across teams (Content & Curriculum, Content Services, Commercial, Product Engineering and Design) to develop and launch new and revised content strategies and services.
• Build relationships with Francophone authors, educators, school boards, and subject matter experts who inform product development.

Leadership & Supervisory

• Lead and develop a high-functioning internal team of French and Francophone subject matter experts, plus external freelance authors, SMEs, and educator reviewers.
• Embrace CRRP and UDL best practices and a culture of collaboration, agile development, and innovation to build a pipeline of ideas that expand and retain Edwin's market.
• Provide subject-area thought leadership internally and externally, including occasional travel and public speaking to school leadership, educators, ministries of education, and at internal meetings.

Business Acumen

• Apply a deep understanding of Nelson's corporate vision to the strategy of the French Language portfolio to optimize growth, improve product performance, and drive success metrics for Edwin.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably a B.Ed. with a specialization in French, French Studies, or Francophone Studies, plus significant K-12 French language curriculum and instructional experience.
• Fully bilingual
• 7-8 years' experience in the K-12 French language education market, spanning teaching, product and content development, market research, and customer success.
• Demonstrated / documented success defining or sourcing, launching, and managing profitable products and services.
• Proven track record of effectively engaging the target market: prospective and existing customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of the K-12 Francophone and French language education sector, including FFL and FSL (Core, Extended, and Immersion) curricula, and the ability to translate curriculum and pedagogical trends into engaging learning experiences.
• Experience developing assessment strategies that support assessment for, as, and of learning and strengthen the teaching and learning cycle.
• Understanding of the K-12 French resource landscape, including traditional resources alongside digital platforms and generative AI tools.
• Short-, medium-, and long-range portfolio planning, with the flexibility to pivot on market needs and the foresight to plan contingencies.
• Proactively identifies risks and develops contingency plans.
• Strong Francophone market connections and ability to identify, recruit, train, mentor, and grow a French Language team of educators and subject matter experts.
• Understanding of how research and pedagogy apply to product design, with attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy, quality, and on-time delivery.
• Experience managing, leading, and mentoring a team.
• Articulate, with constructive negotiation skills.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change, with strong problem-solving and communication skills
• SaaS business experience, working with technology teams in an agile environment; UX and product design experience a plus.

Benefits

Who You Are

You are a results-oriented leader, strategic problem-solver, innovator, creative thinker who's proactive, hardworking, resourceful, well connected in the Francophone and French Second Language education systems, and good at noticing the details while keeping the big picture in mind.

This role requires a high level of confidence and the ability to clearly articulate the benefits of a new idea, solution, or person. This role must excel at communicating and working cross-functionally within the organization to achieve annual performance goals. An ideal candidate in this role brings the following skillsets and experiences:

Compensation

The base salary range for this permanent full-time position starts at $122,000 per annum based on experience. This position may also be eligible for performance-related incentive pay. Compensation is part of our broader Total Rewards package, which includes benefits and programs that support employee well-being and growth.

Benefits

What We Offer

At Nelson, we believe in taking care of our people.

Your well-being, growth, and work-life balance matter to us, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you-professionally and personally.

Health & Wellness

• Flexible and customizable health, dental, and paramedical plans for employees and their families
• Health Spending Account (HSA) for medical, hospital, or dental costs not covered by insurance
• Personal Spending Account (PSA) for wellness expenses, including fitness and health related products
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing confidential support spanning from mental health services to financial counselling, and many things in-between

Financial & Professional Wellbeing

• Pension plan with company matching contributions
• Registered Retirement Pension Plan to help secure your future
• Annual educational reimbursement for professional development
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous skill growth

Flexibility & Time Off

• Hybrid work model with remote and in-office options
• Flexible work hours (divisional dependent)
• Generous paid time off policies, including vacation time, sick leave, parental leave top-up, personal days, and more
• Annual paid volunteer day to support causes you care about
• Holiday closure from Christmas to New Year's
• Summer Fridays

Don't have 100% of the above qualifications? Do you still think Nelson is a great fit for you? We encourage you to apply anyway!

Directeur ou directrice du programme et du curriculum de langue française

Directeur ou directrice du programme et du curriculum de langue française Chez Nelson, nous façonnons l'avenir de l'éducation pour les enfants et les jeunes partout au Canada depuis plus de 110 ans. À titre de plus important fournisseur de contenu éducatif de la maternelle à la 12e année au pays, nous demeurons résolus à poursuivre notre tradition d'innovation, en créant des expériences d'apprentissage sans limites, accessibles et stimulantes pour toutes et tous.

Nos solutions novatrices, y compris Edwin, notre plateforme d'apprentissage numérique, offrent un contenu arrimé aux programmes d'études qui appuie divers styles d'apprentissage tout en favorisant la pensée critique, la créativité et l'apprentissage continu. Nous sommes à l'écoute des besoins uniques du personnel enseignant, des élèves et des membres de la direction partout au pays, et nous faisons continuellement évoluer nos solutions afin d'améliorer leur quotidien.

Lorsque nous recherchons des personnes pour se joindre à notre équipe, nous cherchons des personnes audacieuses, novatrices et qui aiment travailler en équipe, animées par une passion pour l'éducation et le désir d'avoir une incidence positive dans nos communautés. Si cela vous ressemble, nous aimerions vous entendre! Postulez dès aujourd'hui pour vous joindre à notre équipe. Créons le possible, un apprenant à la fois.

À propos du poste

Le directeur ou la directrice du programme et du curriculum de langue française relève de la vice-présidence, Contenu et curriculum. Ce poste oriente la vision, la stratégie et la croissance des portefeuilles de langue française de Nelson sur Edwin. Les principales responsabilités comprennent la direction d'une équipe de spécialistes internes et de collaborateurs externes, le repérage de nouvelles occasions de produits, la définition de l'orientation pédagogique en fonction des politiques en matière de langue française, des programmes d'études et des besoins du marché, ainsi que la direction éditoriale des auteurs et autrices pigistes de langue française, des experts et expertes en la matière et des créateurs et créatrices d'actifs numériques.

Ce poste est responsable des objectifs, des budgets, du positionnement concurrentiel, de la rétroaction du marché et de l'efficacité des portefeuilles. Le directeur ou la directrice collabore avec l'ensemble des secteurs de l'entreprise et mène régulièrement des recherches auprès de la clientèle afin d'éclairer et de valider les décisions relatives au portefeuille. Ce poste travaillera en étroite collaboration avec les équipes Contenu et curriculum, Stratégie, Succès en salle de classe, Ventes, Ingénierie, Conception et Marketing afin de répondre aux besoins de la clientèle et d'élaborer des stratégies de contenu pour la mise en marché qui contribuent à accroître et à fidéliser la clientèle d'Edwin.

Principales responsabilités

Connaissance de la clientèle

• Mener des recherches de marché afin de repérer des occasions et de définir les produits, services et solutions qui répondent le mieux aux besoins de la clientèle.

• Assurer la liaison avec les équipes Contenu et curriculum, Ventes, Marketing et Succès de la clientèle afin de cerner les principales tendances et difficultés en matière d'enseignement, d'apprentissage et d'évaluation qui influencent le contenu d'Edwin et contribuent à accroître le nombre d'utilisateurs et d'utilisatrices d'Edwin.

Développement de contenu

• Lancer du contenu, des évaluations et des fonctionnalités novateurs en français, en testant le rendement et en apportant rapidement les ajustements nécessaires.

• Diriger la conceptualisation du contenu, l'évaluation et la conception pédagogique par matière en synthétisant les recherches de marché, les renseignements fournis par l'équipe Succès de la clientèle et les données sur l'expérience de la clientèle, tout en équilibrant les besoins de la clientèle et les attentes des programmes d'études.

Gestion des relations et des processus / Innovation

• Travailler avec plusieurs équipes (Contenu et curriculum, Services de contenu, Commercial, Ingénierie de produits et Conception) afin d'élaborer et de lancer des stratégies et des services de contenu nouveaux et révisés.

• Établir des relations avec des auteurs et autrices francophones, des éducateurs et éducatrices, des conseils scolaires et d